so i have had a request from a few sources that there ought to be more cat entries up on my website.  bollocks i say!  well, i might have said it. but i guess i wouldn't have meant it because odds are i am a little to afraid of my general readership (they might hurt me ya know) to treat their requests so flippantly.

   have i mentioned lately that isaac is a neurotic freak? no really, he is. but i must admit that he is a cute one.  he really likes me to rub his belly. but only while he is lying in the bathtub.  my tub is right beside my toilet and whenever i am sitting on said toilet, you know, um, fixing my hair, he comes over and jumps in the bathtub and lies down on his side.  he then looks at me expectantly.  i rub his belly.  he purrs.
   this is cute. if i pet his head, when he is the in the tub, he bites me. not playful, hard. in fact, if i stop petting his belly and put my hand down, he bites it. oddly enough, if i pet his belly when he is on the couch, he bites me.  but if i pet his head while he is on the couch, he purrs.  go figure.

   he has taken to sitting by the front door and meowing in the evenings before i am home.  you can tell this because every time you come into the building and wait beside the door you can hear him wailing.  when i come in he looks at me and then meows some more. in fact he will keep meowing until i take the time to pet him a little. then he will wander about my feet waiting for more more more. until, that is, i sit down, then he is aloof and won't come near me until i have been sitting there for at least a half an hour.  i think he thinks it makes me feel bad. i, on the other hand, don't seem to care. but boy does he act peeved if i get up after 25 minutes and go to do something else.

   he's not needy. no, not a bit. he will sit looking up at me expectantly for hours and hours when i am sitting at the computer (you know, as i did a bunch during november). he doesn't' so much but just stares at me.  it would make me feel uneasy if it weren't for the fact that i installed a toy that helps the both of us greatly.  beside my computer desk, right behind my back and to the right is the doorway to my bedroom. i got one of those bouncy toys on a big long elastic thing. it hangs down to about 7 inches above the floor. he doesn't touch it normally.  unless i throw it at him, over and over again. then he goes freakin' mad.  vicious little godzilla her turns into. he does back flips. he jumps 3 times his height. he growls. he tears. he rends.  it's very cute.  hopefully i will never get a kitten that i hang from the ceiling by an elastic.

   in the mornings he doesn't' like the idea that i am going to go away to work and leave him.  he has stopped wailing when i am in the shower. something almost definitely related to the fact that i liked to stick my head out of the shower and spray him with water. so now, no matter where he is in the apt when i step into the shower, when i get out he starts to wail at me. until i pet him.  he likes to jump up on the back of the toilet so i can pet him closer.  then when i go to the sink to brush my hair and etc, he jumps up and tries to do his darnedst to climb into my medicine cabinet.  so far that hasn't worked too well for him. but he tries.  after i am done i put all the medicine back in the cabinet and go dress. he follows me there and wails as i get dressed. until i spend 3 minutes petting him then i sort of forgets the whole thing.

   but we are definitely getting along and i like living with him. when it is time for bed i say 'bed isaac' and he follows me an and about the same time as i have laid down on the bed, he has leapt up to lie exactly in the same place between my legs. if i dont' move, he is still there in the morning. 

other than that...the first edit step on the book is done and i am not allowed to touch it again for a month.  the first person to read it other than me will be doing so soon though.

   i feel lost at times without so much to do though.