carolinecrane | appropos to nothing

Last night I was saying to my mother that I'm thinking of adding more tattoos to my left arm, where my crane is, and making it an animal sleeve. So far I'm thinking a rat (for the year of the rat, which is when I was born), a cat for my stupid cat Annie, and maybe a Fu Dog, to keep with my tradition of appropriating the Asian culture where I was born.

"Like a totem!" my mom said.

"Sure," I said. "I haven't figured out a way to connect them yet."

Then she kind of frowned and said, "I can't believe I'm encouraging you."

Ha! Sorry, Mom. They're addictive.