I know what you all were thinking. You were thinking, “Oh sure, Batty gets FFXII and never posts again. What a douche!” Well, you are wrong. That is, you are wrong about the dearth of posts being video game related. In reality, I have been unexpectedly working my buns off this week. Part of the problem is that I decided at the last minute to take a French reading class this summer. I know, I know. Hell hath finally frozen over if I’m learning French. Be that as it may, I am really taking French and the class meets 4 days a week, 3 hours a day. And I’m also working 2 five-hour shifts in the library, meaning that I have two days a week that I’m on campus for 9 hours. Ugh!! Fortunately, the French is only for 3 weeks, but they’re going to be brutal weeks regardless.

And on top of it all, Sparrow William is still residing with us. I called some rescues last week to get a little more info on the likelihood of his ever being released, and it sounded very promising at first. At some point, he’s supposed to get tired of taking food from us. He supposed to want to eat seeds on his own instead of gaping at us for dogfood mush. He’s supposed to want to grow up! But does he actually want to grow up? Nooooo. He just wants to chirp and cry until one of us drags ourselves out of bed to feed him. And he wants to keep chriping as long as anyone’s around because he wants our attention. And he wants to sit on our controllers and peck at our fingers when we do have one day off for playing video games. What’s a bird-mother to do?