A Crazy Cat's Life

I'm finally done working for the summer.  Both of the schools I teach at ended their last summer sessions this week.  Final grades are in so this means I get to enjoy the whopping three weeks I have off. Now before you sit there and go "well, I'm lucky if I get a week off," let me explain.  Teaching is a very mentally stressing job.  Not only do we have lesson preps but tons of grading.  And trust me, grading these days is not the easiest of tasks.  While I get a few good papers, a majority of them are written poorly with bad grammar and paragraph styling.  On top of that, I always get a handful of students that think "text speak" is appropriate for papers.  This truly hurts your brain when you read them.  On top of that, I taught three classes this previous session which also meant that I went from 8am to 9:40pm on most days.  The time spent between those classes was devoted to school related stuff (i.e., preps and grading).  I g...

One of our cats, Tasha, is a big scaredy cat.  She wasn't always this way.  She had been a lovely-dovey kitty though she's always been a bit skittish.  To be honest, I blame myself for the way she is now.  Back when she was a kitten I had to give her medication to clear up a suspected case of ringworm and I accidentally got the medicine in her mouth.  Ever since then, she will have nothing to do with either me or Bear.  Well, she tolerates Bear but she runs and hides from me constantly. I would really like to do something to help her but I'm not sure where to start or what to give her.  I know there are aromatherapy treatments out there but we can't really get near her to use them on her.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  I'll take any help that we can get.