THE GREATEST OLDIES OF ALL TIME

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you could be entered to win a Hummer full of kittens!

It is only very tentatively that I begin this entry, since it involves getting a bit more specific about my high-strung workplace; we are a survey company that mostly does market research stuff. I�m a sociology major, so my academic background causes me to routinely gnash my teeth about some idiotic surveys or procedures we have to endure. They get pretty anal-retentive about industry security, which is why I have to be so cagey about talking about work. BUT, the other week we were dialing on a pet-themed survey (fun!) and the screening questions asked (among other things) how many kittens people owned (someone had 11!) and how old they were. So last weekend, with the word �kittens� mewling in my ear, I went ahead and got a second cat for my incumbent cat, Xanadu to play with (I�ve named her Strange Magic). Except that she�s so small and cute (8 weeks) that Xanadu keeps trying to devour her.
I always thought he was a small cat; he used to prance around on his tippy toes and arch his back to look cute and kittenlike, but now that there is a genuine kitten in the house, he lets his gut hang, hunches his shoulders and prowls around; he seems about 5 pounds heavier all of a sudden. Strange Magic is pretty feisty, though, and as long as he hasn�t already pinned her, she can hiss him away. He�s apparently got a big crush on her, but he can�t control himself when he tries to bathe her; it always devolves into molestation.
Sometimes he gets so frantic that when I intervene, or when Strange Magic asserts herself, Xanadu will just abruptly run from the room, except that my apartment isn�t carpeted, so he gallops in place for a couple seconds like a cartoon cat until he gathers enough momentum for his departure. I�m hoping it�s a demonstration of restraint.

PS This should be our last Violaless weekend; the next time hers and my shifts coincide will be Tuesday. I should probably spend the duration working on my thesis ethics application: this Diarylanding is pretty addictive. Til then!

1:46 p.m. - 2006-05-12
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