The Way We Get By

Friends, I tell you you have not lived until you have spent an hour on the living room couch with a 6'7 German man named Oliver, watching the Gilmore Girls and discussing heavy metal versus industrial, and how Metallica carried us through high school. I guess some experiences really do transcend time and space... though I didn't think they would really involve Metallica.

In other news, I will be spending about 35 hours in New York at the end of this week. If anyone wants New York presents, you should let me know before Thursday morning because I don't know what my internet access will be like. I will not tell you what a New York present is... and I can't honestly promise you that it won't be something that I find on the street. But if you are interested... comment/ message me.

Work has been crazy, hence the dearth of posting... I regret to say that I have fallen off of the NaBloPoMo project, but I am still trying to write more than I was before, and hopefully it shall continue.

Dodger has been particularly whiney. This had been going on for a couple of weeks following some unfortunate bladder evacuations on his part (a problem mostly solved by us having a stern discussion of the consequences of continued bed peeing upon, and also me locking him in a small room with a litter box and some toys and a blanket at the suggestion of my vet, so that he could relearn how to use the box). Anyway, after the peeing came the noise making, which let up for a couple weeks, but seems to have returned. The common internet knowledge seems to be to ignore the cat when he is whining, and reward him when he stops. My question to the internet is this. My cat walks around the house meowing at the top of his lungs. He could want for me to feed him, or pet him, or play with him, or he could want me to ignore him and tell him irately to learn how to use his words, cause ma's had a long day at work and needs language with her vocalizations. Now, any of the three former ones are fine, but if he wants the fourth one... I mean, how do I know that I'm not inadvertently rewarding his bad behavior?

Someone will tell me when I've gone fully round the bend, right?