Resolved: Someone Should Invent Feliway For HUMANS

Feliway must work fast. Or else my assimilation timetable was off.

Here is sassy Molly glaring at me from my bed.

Of course, she still hisses and swipes at me whenever I get close to her (though she did deign to sniff my finger for a microsecond.)

Molly is a prancer & a dancer. She likes to play with her toys.

Mabel is much shyer and only manifests at the closet door when the lights are low. I assume she is eating & using The Box when she assesses I’m safely asleep.

I’m not sure why Ellen thought the cats were “bonded.”

I’ve seen no evidence of any great bond.

Molly’s clearly the alpha.

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Apart from that, yesterday I Remunerated and consumed an entire package of some strange chocolate-covered gingernuts. (They were not particularly good, so I don’t know why I felt compelled to do that. Stress eating?)

I’m Remunerating a lot now because once I start TaxBwana-ing (in a month), I’ll have scarcely any time to make $$$$$$$.

The weather is bizarrely warm, so I went off tromping.

They’ve finally closed off the Walkway parking lot, so the only place left for a maintenance tromp is the Vanderbilt Park, which is prettier but far less efficient.

It was very grey when I set out, but as soon as I hit the trail, the sky turned blue:



I’m still intent upon organizing a Christmas Orphans get-together.

I guess I will put little notices up on FB & craigslist. (I don’t know where else to put them.)

How should I word them?

Hi! I’m so pathetic that no one wants to spend Christmas with me! Not that I like Christmas, you understand! No, I think Christmas is an orgy of consumerism disguised under hoary tropes designed to make you celebrate the herd instinct. But hey! Those tropes are doing their job ‘cause I feel left out, and I want you to feel left out with me!!!!!

Hmmmm…

That needs work.

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I’m also wondering how the great ubiquitous They are gonna spin the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s President.

It’s not a story I’ve been following very closely.

What did she say?

What did she not say?

It seems to me there are tactful ways to condemn the October 7th massacre without approving the whole ethnic cleansing Israel is currently carrying out in Gaza, but what do I know? I’m just a simple country economist.

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Temps right now are flirting with 55°. Later today, it’s gonna pour. If I were really disciplined, I’d tromp before that happens.