A separate bathroom to lock each cat into when they get out of hand. A walk-in closet. Large storage area. A private entrance. MY OWN WASHER AND DRYER! Is this not beautiful to behold?

“If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?” – Steven Wright We sign the new lease tomorrow morning! The Prof stopped by the new apartment after he finished teaching yesterday and got everything rolling. Of…

This breaks the mind-numbing oppressiveness of my entries so far today. Why know what you can look up? And why look up what you can extract from the minds of your enemies? There are those who think and those who act. I am the latter. I am a problem solver. I have a gift for…

Two thousand eight hundred and twenty-three believed dead. Three hundred and forty-three of them were firefighters. Many were killed instantly, but perhaps over a thousand of them survived the initial impacts. More than three hundred of them took advantage of the extra last minutes granted to them to phone or email to the outside world,…

sigh The Amphibian apparently needs a major attitude adjustment. First of all, this is the week I was supposed to be on vacation. In case anyone has failed to notice, I am not on vacation. I am not on vacation because my government counterpart is on vacation. I can’t take vacation when he takes vacation….

“When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.” -Penny Ward Moser Yes the bills got paid last night. At least, most of them did. I’m holding off on paying my renter’s insurance until I…

Rufus Wainwright sings to me of “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” and then moves on to “Across the Universe”. Jai guru deva om… Dar Williams sings my anthem “Spring Street”. She attempts to empower me with “I won’t be Your Yoko Ono” and then reminds me of humility in “Calling the Moon.” Christine Lavin gets me…

A cat will sit washing his face within two inches of a dog in the most frantic state of barking rage, if the dog be chained. – Carl van Vechten I have an ongoing battle concerning the thermostat in my office. To understand my dilemma, you must first understand that my office area is in…

What the …? California officials seize man’s pet hippo? I don’t care what the Prof says when he waxes poetic about the state he left behind; there’s weirdness on that there coast. As feared, I am not settling in well to work today. Fortunately, the bulk of my work is bit-and-piece stuff that allows me…

Jigitty jig. Adolescent cat from Hell was perfectly chipper when I got home from work Friday. Looks like she’s strong enough to throw off the Kitty Flu without much more than a momentary *URP*. So the Professor and I took off for the mountains (such as they are in my state) for three days of…