18 November I'm having waaay too many nights heavily involving cats. Well, that looked a little ickier than I intended it to--what I meant was that Monty now sleeps on my pillow every night (and no, getting another pillow wouldn't help, because it's less the pillow that is the attraction than the idea of getting as close to my skull as he can) which means that every time I want to turn over, I have to wake up, and if I wake up then Milo comes and meows in my face so that I will pet him. Except for during the few precious moments when I am actually sleeping, and then he meows in my face and wakes me up so that I will pet him. I went to bed before 11p last night, thinking that I would get simply tons of sleep and leap from the bed like a young gazelle at 7a, write my entry, and get to work before 10a. Ha. So yesterday The Raccoon was back, thank heavens, so I was able to enumerate my woes and blame her for cursing me and explain why we're calling the new guy "Teddy" (okay, I'll tell you why. There's a hymn called Gladly My Cross I'd Bear, so of course it's changed to Teddy, My Cross-Eyed Bear). And yesterday, for the third day in a row, Teddy said in sort of a boasting fashion, "I was up 'til 3a last night surfing the Internet!" which to me is as interesting as though someone said "I was up 'til 3a last night watching TV!" And then The Evil Overlord said "Did The Raccoon tell you? We're all going out to lunch with Teddy this afternoon!" A, I never take lunch, B, we're much too busy to take lunch, and C, I can imagine nothing more appalling that a sit-down restaurant lunch with those two (not The Raccoon) where you can't escape or anything. But I am an adult, I am thirty-five years old, and I know that sometimes one needs to do things that one wouldn't necessarily want to do. So how did I react when The Evil Overlord told me about lunch? I whined, "Do I hafta?!" As The Raccoon muttered to me, "If I have to go, you have to go!" My favourite Roger Ebert moment lately was during his review of The Bachelor, the remake of a wonderful Buster Keaton film called Seven Days, where he said that: "The movie would have been much better if it had been in black and white, silent, and starring Buster Keaton!" An action family shot. Today's horoscope: A loved one needs more sensitivity, intuition and gentleness from you. Don't feed excessive dependency. Be kind but firm. One year ago today: Yeah, I'll get one from one of the hundreds of independent shawl merchants that congregate around my workplace. * Yesterday / Index / This Month / Tomorrow * E-Mail Whole new way of looking at life by: Michael Moore! This page was written by hand. My hand. Only pussies use HTML editors. Last Updated Mon 1 November 09:22:09 1999