Noises in the attic...

We've heard, for about a month now, noises in the attic - some sort of animal, obviously larger than the pigeons we had there for a while, and larger no doubt than a mouse. But nobody really wanted to go up in the nighttime when it was most active, and we kept putting it off during the day.

Finally, this night it was loud enough that I'm just like "fuck it", so I go upstairs, fully expecting a raccoon or a possum, or, worst case scenario, an evil demon.

But no, it's a kitty cat!

And as I'm looking at it, and thinking it's much too big to be a feral, it comes right up to me, lets me pick it up and bring it downstairs, show mommy. And then I brought it back up there - I mean, s/he's obviously getting in and out somehow, right? I'm not worried about any cats. Besides, I saw a wormtail there, so we've either got a rat or a possum as well, and if it's a rat, with luck, the cat'll scare it away. With luck.

Still trying to figure out how they're getting in. There's no use worrying about it until we can figure out where, exactly, their entrance is. Worse comes to worst, they'll leave when the temperature drops. Up there, it easily gets 10 to 20 degrees BELOW whatever it is outside.

Ooh! Somebody found an article just for me!

Yes, it's about the election.

Interesting article...

"There is only one explanation for the consistent meaning of the word 'papa': a common ancestry," Bancel says. He presented the findings at the Origins of Language and Psychosis conference in Oxford, UK, in July 2004

Except... that's not true. Words like papa could have a consistent meaning because they're very easy for young children to say. And of course, whatever the kid says first is going to get tacked on to one or the other of the parents. They want their kids to be saying "mama" and "papa", even if the kid is really just practicing going "mamamamamamamammmmmm".

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Okay, I have a question. Why were they still paying for their daughter's things? Look, I know they cared about her, sure, but surely cutting off the money would be a less drastic measure than suicide?

*grumbles*

Hey, they're talking about us!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/10/internet_buzz_on_vote_fraud_is_dismissed/

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Thinking back...

Somebody on my friends list posted about the apple stem game, where (of course) you carefully would manipulate your apple stem twisting so as to end on the letter of the boy you liked.

I don't remember ever doing this growing up, though I vaguely knew about it. What we did do, though, a lot, was play "opposite day". We'd be in the cafeteria, eating lunch, and all of a sudden somebody at the table would declare it was "opposite day" and everything meant the opposite. So people would carefully switch their sentences so they wouldn't say something they didn't mean, and this would go on for about five minutes until somebody else declared "opposite opposite day". And then it was "opposite opposite opposite day". And so on.

And all this time I'd be reading my book, pretty much oblivious to everything, including the fact that it was lunchtime. If nobody poked me before the end of lunch, I'd have to gobble my sandwich between the table and the door. Again.