{"id":1895,"date":"2022-11-09T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:17:28","slug":"5-weeks-and-2-days-and-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/5-weeks-and-2-days-and-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"5 weeks and 2 days&#8230;and a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My final paper for my final grad school class is due in 5 weeks and 2 days.  On December 16, I will officially be finished with my MLIS degree, after four and a half <strong><em>long <\/em><\/strong>years of work.  (Huge thanks to Jim for his patience with the never-ending homework!)  And I&#8217;m so thrilled that my final class for this degree ended up being an independent study with my favorite professor &#8211; I&#8217;m studying Management Theory for Leading and Working Effectively in Libraries.  Best class ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I have a LOT of studying to do today (I&#8217;m on study-cation this week), this post will be brief &#8211; but one quick fun announcement: we got a dog!  (Because, of course, when you&#8217;re trying to finish up a Master&#8217;s degree program the best thing to do is get a dog&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet Tuffy.  He&#8217;s a 12-year-old Shih Tzu mix (though we think he must have a lot of terrier in him &#8211; his face is all terrier to our eyes) who came from Pensacola, Florida where he was found as a stray and never claimed.  He has dry eye and wonky arthritic legs and very few teeth, but he&#8217;s an absolute sweetheart and so much fun.  And I&#8217;m not too allergic to him &#8211; nothing I can&#8217;t handle with a little Claritin &#8211; and so far things are going ok with the cats.  We&#8217;ve seen some positive interactions between the felines and the canine, which isn&#8217;t bad for a week and a half of living together, and have high hopes that in time everyone will be getting along fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got Tuffy from the best pet rescue ever &#8211; I can&#8217;t say enough good things about them:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagepetrescue.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vintagepetrescue.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vintage Pet Rescue in Rhode Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few photos of our new friend:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-rotated.jpg 400w, http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tuffy loves hanging out in our yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cats-and-Tuffy-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"444\" src=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cats-and-Tuffy-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cats-and-Tuffy-rotated.jpg 250w, http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Cats-and-Tuffy-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Moxie and Bud in my lap checking out the sleeping doggo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sleepy-Tuffy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" src=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sleepy-Tuffy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1898\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sleepy Tuffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-2-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-2-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1897\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-2-rotated.jpg 350w, http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Tuffy-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tuffy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My final paper for my final grad school class is due in 5 weeks and 2 days. On December 16, I will officially be finished with my MLIS degree, after four and a half long years of work. (Huge thanks to Jim for his patience with the never-ending homework!) And I&#8217;m so thrilled that my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/5-weeks-and-2-days-and-a-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 weeks and 2 days&#8230;and a dog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-dogs-plants-animals","category-graduate-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}