i swear my cat is 100% ego. top to bottom, back to front.
when someone walks by outside and sees him through the window and says, 'oooh, a kitty' i can see his ears perk up and his shoulders strike out and he sort of preens at the attention.  Now, i can't even really make out what it is that they are saying outside of that window but somehow he knows and it feeds his ego.  what's with that? strange neurotic freak when alone with me but when others are watching he is preening, cute and filled with character.

alone he's not really all that much like Bucky Katt (see link to side, Bucky is the star of Get Fuzzy). Alone he is a needy neurotic freak.  Sure he bites me a little but not very often.  For me he seems to understand that if he bites me i am not going to allow him to sit on me and absorb my warmth and thereness (he craves thereness more than any living being i have ever encountered) nor will i pet him.  In fact the bites appear to be an attack of random petulance more than anything else.  take for instance when i come home from work.  he is still standing at my door whining when i come home and he continues to whine when i come in and while i am putting my stuff down and etc.  the first thing that i normally do when i come in is take off my work clothes and as such i head to the bedroom. he follows, whining to stand on my bed and whine at me.  now of course i pet him.  being a cat, he falls to his side and allows me to bestow my adoration as his is wont upon him.  but being isaac, even though he often will start purring, he bites me as i pet him.  i think this is petulance at my nerve for being away for the day.  some nerve.
   i think he is afraid of his food.  he doesn't eat it when i am out of the house.  or for the most part. in fact after he has ascertained that i have given him as much immediate gratification as i am going to after i come home (do you think he realizes that his biting me and whining drastically reduces this amount?) he then runs to the kitchen, drinks for about 2 minutes and then eats.  Since i normally check the food and water before i even go to change my clothes i note that it is pretty rare for either levels to lower appreciably during my absences.  i think he believes that if i am not around to protect him that somehow the food is going to attack him.  who knows, maybe it is true.

   so i haven't been around here much. i am not totally sure why. well i know why this week, i have been working a bunch of over time and my off time has been spent either with my delightful, vibrant and beautiful friend deb who was in town visiting or working on a new jewelry commission that i have just recently received.  about a week and a half ago a woman from work saw one of the necklaces that i had made specially for a colleague, one that is extra long and specially designed to hold onto her security card, which we are required to wear around our necks.  she liked it so much that she not only asked me to make one for herself but 10 others for members of a project team that she is working with.  i have never received an order for more than one at a time before so this in itself was kind of exciting.  but in addition to this, i have a deadline.
   i have actually given her a bulk discount and as such i am making much less than i would piece by piece and she has reduced the complexity of her order to reduce it as well yet more.  but still the amount i am getting is about 3.5 times the amount of i have made from my jewelry to date. in fact, i already have the cheque in my wallet, but i am not cashing it until after they are done.  another requirement that she made, after i delivered the first one was that i give her cards of a business type sort so that the recipients know something about the artist.  in fact she was very insistent.  at first i told her it was a very good idea and then spent my time on the necklaces instead and she gave me heck because she needed one for the one she was giving away first. so i spent some time and now i have business cards. i don't know if i have a business, so maybe i will call them designer cards.  they are deliciously pretentious, just as an artist should have.

on an even cooler note, this past week has had a lot of overtime in order that i get to leave on my holidays next week and the week after.  i am not going anywhere really but i do have big plans.  big big plans i tell you baby.  and i am so looking forward to this time.  happy happy joy joy. ok. time to go shower so i can go and watch phone booth