How New Kitty spends her time...

She waits for Daddy-Cat to come home... of course, she doesn't realize she's looking down at the "out" door of the garage -- she is a cat, after all. Since Hubby and I will go to Red State tomorrow, she'll be waiting for a while. He'll be back in February.... The good thing about her waiting is that she isn't on MY desk... which is in the far left part of this photo...

She spends a large amount of time sitting on my desk and ignoring me. She enjoys watching what is on my screen. If you look closely, you can see several of my favorite things in this photo... to her right is my purple Philosophy water bottle from Powell's Books in Portland, to the right of my computer monitor is most of my collection of Russell + Hazel notebooks and just to the left of my notebooks, under the monitor, is the scarf given to me (via Hubby) by one of Hubby's students -- a charming Asian student who had a little bit of a 'thing' for Hubby :). She gave him a matching tie -- with the characters of the Chinese Opera on it...

This is the "you aren't Daddy" look. New Kitty does that well and often, when she realizes that she's stuck here in BN state and not in Red State with her favorite parent. What she doesn't realize is that her favorite cat (Blind Kitty) wouldn't be with her in Red State, and she'd have to make several trips across Corn State in order to live with her cat-father full-time. As you might guess, she isn't a fan of the car... not at all.

This is her "I'm going to try to play with every small thing on your desk" mode... paper clips, rubber bands and anything small enough to be moved by a cat paw is fair game.

Finally, she's in her "I'm going to go jump on Extra-Toes" pose. Every morning she has a ritualized spat with Extra-Toes. They fight in the doorway to the office. She usually wins -- although sometimes he gets his extra-claws in her collar and takes it off of her. When he does this, she gets rather sad and looks at me as if to say "put my collar on... NOW!". Of course, I do so, because it has a bell on it and I get to know where she is...


Can you tell I'm on a paper deadline? Thank goodness it is almost time for their mid-morning nap... which follows the mid-morning spaz attack going on right now and which will be followed by the late-morning nap, the noon nap and the ever important all afternoon nap... most of these naps happen on our bed...

I'm going to refrain from posting anything else -- or reading any more blogs -- or checking any e-mail until I have a solid draft of this paper!