sunshine and rope swings

2.15.2005

bearing witness

the day began with shadow, who had been curled to my chest for two hours, puking on the side of the bed at 1 a.m. well, that's how the official day began. it then really began when i got up at 7:30 and began making my way towards downtown. i got on marta, which is quite crowded at 8:15 on a weekday morning....there was an empty seat with a lady's purse sitting on it, i asked politely if i could sit there and she told me, "no." well...i didn't think i smelled badly or anything, but who knows. so i grabbed the rail next to that seat and stood there putting my marta card back into my purse. within 15 seconds or so, she stood up abruptly and moved down the car. i then took the seat that had been vacated by the removal of her purse. was she crazy? or perhaps have some horrid communicable disease she didn't want to spread. i don't know....i was just relieved to get to sit down as i felt pretty damn stupid standing up next to some purse in the seat.

i got to my graduate research assistantship and found that our advisors had left us 3 GRAs a bag full of valentine's candy and a card. yummy. the day wound on....and on....and finally i got home just before 8.

ok, so here's the impetus for this blog post - i just went to pee (as i'm typing an annotated bibliography and watching the akc dog show out of the periphery of my eyes) and sushi accompanied me as is wont to do...the cats have somehow divvied jelena time....all time in the bathroom is sushi's - he loves the bathtub, loves the sink, etc. scout has the pillow at bedtime, sushi sleeps on my hip. yes, on it. scout also has most couch time, though sometimes sushi comes and curls up next to me. anyway. the point. so i go to pee and sushi is sniffing around in the linen closet...not surprising and all of a sudden, he comes out and leaves the bathroom like a blue streak with a tampon in his mouth. that cat LOVES tampons. he also loves dog milkbones and demands a treat each time i give one to the dogs. the thing is, i know where the tampons are in that closet...they are on a little shelf, inside their little box. and sushi knows where they are too apparently. he went in, got on the little shelf, and grabbed one out of the box. and then knew well enough that he should emerge and flee from the bathroom b/c momma would take it from him if he dallied around. so, the score is now sushi 1, jelena 0, tampons -1. we'll see how the rest of the night goes....

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