Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat

Spring is here. The weather is warming up and when we go out in our automobiles we are more likely to leave our windows open while we cruise around. This is lovely however…

Please remember when you yell at traffic around you or at someone on your cell phone with your windows open, everyone can hear you and will possibly question your sanity and stability.

Today while puttering about in parking garages and parking lots I have witnessed three such incidents.

To the lady in the blue Toyota: No, I don’t know what the cars in front of you are doing either.
To the guy in the truck: Um, I think your diagnosis of “that girl is a crazy b*tch” is probably accurate if she’s dating you.
To the adorable little old lady in the Lincoln: Yes, I was looking at you funny because I could hear you on your cell phone asking your obviously mostly-deaf husband if you needed to pick up eggs.

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Monster Cat: Practice

Categories: Cats, comics, Monster Cat

Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 by cce

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200th episode today! I’m actually pretty amazed that I’ve done 200 of these little cat comics. As we know, the Internet can always use more cat comics and Mr. Paw is happy to oblige. He adores his fans and adores being adored by his fans. All in all, it’s still very good to be the cat after 200 episodes.

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Monster Cat: Tanning

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Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by cce

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Monster Cat: Spring

Categories: Cats, comics, Monster Cat

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by cce

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Random salutations

Categories: Food & Drink, Hobbies, knitting, Movies, Work, Writing

Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2009 by cce

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I do exist! Well, I do exist beyond the boundaries of Monster Cat episodes at least. I know, I know, I haven’t posted anything outside of Monster Cat in ages. Did you miss me? No, I didn’t think so. My cat is pretty darned cute, you don’t need me.

Jon was in town the end of this week and teaching a class in the city. We had dinner with him 3 nights in a row which was great fun even if it involved going into Philly so many times! Last night involved a great deal of silliness and beer as well. Merricke and Siobhan joined us Thursday night and last night which made for additional enjoyment and general spreading of the joy of beer.

My news is that I have remembered to knit. I did some scarves to remember how to follow simple instructions. I’ve been doing little hats for one of the baby charities to remember how to work with double-pointed needles. I am not a fan of metal DPNs but I happen to have a lot of them in very convenient sizes. I asked my mother for a recommendation of a book with lots of little projects in it that could keep me busy and make me try new techniques. There is now an over-stuffed flat rate box in the mail to me. I should have known this would happen, I guess, but I really did just ask expecting a book recommendation! I’m working my way up to bigger projects, I guess, but I really enjoy doing the quick little stuff. Instant gratification is pretty darned awesome.

In other news, I am still a slacker employee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, otherwise known as unemployed. I have a lead or two but the market is more than a little dismal right now so I’m not stressing about the lack of opportunities. I look at a couple job sites, laugh that employers want people with 10 years of highly specialized and/or technical experience but only want to pay as if the person is fresh out of school, and move on.

I think my writing class this term is going pretty well. It’s a bit small – just 3 students – which is both good and bad. I’ve gone through a phase of “oh no, I can’t actually write anything good at all” and I’m coming out the other side now, which is, as you might imagine, a huge relief. I’m renegotiating my use of adjectives as well as learning a lot about the conscious structure and intermingling of stories and characters. The class is over in 3 weeks and I’m starting to look around for another writing class to take me into the summer. UARTS is great – 3 hour classes, great instructors, credit – but expensive.

I also started twittering recently… it’s rather random and disjointed, but you can now follow me on Twitter if you really want to. It’s more of an experiment… again. I tried Twitter ages ago when it first came out and was not interested enough in it to remember my login/password.

By the way… we saw “Knowing” today. It’s a horrible movie barely worthy of my words. There was some horrible acting, terrible dialogue, a completely pathetic plot and an un-compelling resolution… all crowned with bizarre religious overtones and other crap. There are a lot of forced and illogical jumps not to mention a failed attempt to imbue a sense of urgency by having the characters run around like chicken with their heads cut off. No spoilers here, but there are 2 major aspects of this movie that should have ensured I enjoyed it. Alas, I now add it to the list with The Spirit… the title of that list is “Movies I wish I’d skipped – 2009.”

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