Cats silently judge you all the time. Sometimes not so silently.: seanan

Cats silently judge you all the time. Sometimes not so silently.

So I'm sitting here at my desk, trying to get some work done before Chris* gets here, and the cats keep telling me that I am failing. I am failing as a human being, failing as an author, and most importantly, failing as a monkey. I am not a) petting them, b) brushing them, c) letting them stick their claws in my thighs, d) feeding them, or e) going to the back room where they can sprawl on me and purr loudly, like I was a dragon they had just felled through sheer force of arms.

I think this is why so many authors have cats. They're always happy to tell us that we're flawed, and equally happy to tell us that they love us anyway, as long as we do what they want us to do. It's a perfect preparation for life as a working writer! Although most writers don't have cats that can actually physically restrain them when they feel the need (in other news, Thomas has had a growth spurt).

I really need to a) clean my room, and b) spend a few hours just taking pictures of toys, because most of them are creepy, and they watch me sleep, so you need to understand just how creepy they are. I want you to understand my pain. The cats do not mess with the creepy dolls. That's how creepy the creepy dolls are.

I don't think this post has a point beyond "life goes on." So this is my still life with cats and dolls. Happy Saturday!

(*Chris. One of my dearest friends of the last decade, although he lives just far enough away that I don't see him more than once or twice a month, and he doesn't do many conventions, so most people won't have met him. He's my horror movie buddy. This is just one of the many, many grenades which he cheerfully throws himself upon.)

klwilliams

September 10 2011, 21:14:20 UTC 5 years ago

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I want a bunny from the Morbid Bunny of the Month Club, but I doubt it would be creepy. Perhaps not even morbid.

I'm reading "Rosemary and Rue," and it has pulled me away from admiring the French countryside. That's how good it is.

seanan_mcguire

September 11 2011, 03:06:10 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

Thank you. People are so happy with book five that I feel a little, like, weren't the other ones nice, too? That pleases me.

drcpunk

September 11 2011, 04:21:36 UTC 5 years ago

I've not yet read book 5 (

mneme has first dibs on our copy), but I'd hazard a guess that the reason book 5 is so awesome is because it builds on the first four books, which means that saying it's awesome is saying all five of them are awesome.

September 13 2011, 14:44:27 UTC 5 years ago

The phrase "finally hits her stride" makes me grit my teeth.

jane_dark

September 11 2011, 17:24:03 UTC 5 years ago

I'm still hanging on to OSS for my transatlantic plane ride, but as someone who has definitely said that the series gets more awesome with each book, I definitely don't mean that the early ones weren't nice. In fact, I was just rereading Rosemary and Rue last week before loaning it to a friend, and I was struck by how I could see things building, right in that first book, that I could only recognize having come this far in the series.

And it was just generally awesome anyways. I still really love the grocery store pixies. And it makes me realize that I really need to visit SF, because I've never been.

September 12 2011, 21:35:19 UTC 5 years ago

Yes, you do. It's lovely here. :)

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