Must Be Friday

Doesn't this just make you want to be a cat?

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[Nomadic Postdoc]

Totally cute! Is s/he yours?

[Rana]

No (I wish!). This is The Neighbor's Cat, TNC for short. She latched onto me shortly after I moved in, and for some reason adores me (or my apartment). I pat her, and talk to her, and let her sleep on the laundry, and that seems to be enough to inspire impassioned yowls to be allowed inside. Heaven knows what she'd be like if I fed her!

(And yes, the neighbor is aware of this kitty crush -- it's rather embarassing for both of us, to be honest.)

[Rana]

(Great pseudonym, by the way!)

[mikey]

WB Yeats thought cats "the nearest kin of the moon", maybe they are when we are indoors and they are out at night. But they worship the sun I think, the religion that makes sense. Great picture.

[Jill Smith]

Oh! The sweetness! The widdle soft-fur belly....

[The rest of this potential post was deleted for fear that those reading did not have enough insulin at hand.]

[Rana]

A soft widdle belly it is! (Kinda fat, too. She has to work really hard to get onto that table. Too much belly, too short legs.)

mikey -- yes. I remember once someone describing cats as "solar powered" which they certainly are! No coincidence that cats can trace their roots to nice warm places like Egypt, I suspect.

[Amanda]

Awwwww. Kitty!

Some friends of mine have a cat who looks just like TNC except black all over and with perhaps more of a big furry belly. She's a lovely cat with a deep rhythmic purr. (And suddenly I am jonesing for a cat...)

[butuki]

And sleeping on top of The Storm of Swords no less. What did you think about that book? I used to love George R.R. Martin when I was in college (A Song for Lya), and liked the first of this new series, but after the third book I just couldn't continue any more... I kept thinking... "Is this EVER going to end???" Great idea, though.

[wolfangel]

I always thought that bulky cats would be disadvantaged in jumping, but not always so much, or at least some skinny cats with long legs can't jump.

I always wondered how cats could find hard-edged things good pillows. But she seems very happily asleep.

Everyone should get a cat. Or seven. I want more cats, but Matilda has made it clear that no.

[Rana]

Amanda, TNC's got a good purr, too. However, she also snores!

Miguel, I really liked the book, and the two that came after. Unfortunately, it seems that this is going to be one of the banes of my existence, The Never-Ending Series. I hate these. A trilogy's fine. A cluster of semi-independent books set in the same world/context is fine. But the unfinished series... ugh. Not to mention that libraries seem to have an evil knack for buying only book 2 in such series (which means it's unreadable), or worse, buying book 1, then never buying the remainder. (Add in the publishers' common tendency to hide the fact that it's part of a series, and aggravation will ensue.)

wolfangel -- TNC is particularly pitiful when it comes to jumping. I've never seen anything like it. The highest she can jump unaided is about two feet, and that often requires a few almost-jumps beforehand to build up the necessary momentum. It's not just that she's fat, though I'm sure it doesn't help; there was a brief time when she lost weight (worms!) and she was just as pitiful.

I've never understood the sleeping-on-a-pile-of-hard-lumpy-things phenomenon either.

[Katherine]

TNC looks so comfortable and so contented. I don't get the sleeping on piles of hard things either, but my cats do it all the time. I sometimes think they think that if they lay on my books or piles of paper I won't be able to access them and therefore turn my attention to something other than their grand kittiness.

Everytime I pick up a book, pull out the keyboard tray, or start to grade a paper, they're both right there, climbing over whatever I'm trying to do--they have an amazing radar!

[Rana]

Yes! Demanding little creatures they are. It's a lucky thing they're damn cute!