Cats, Curses and Zombies

They're all related, you know. At least for me today they were. Ty's in the hospital for ACL surgery, so I have been bequeathed the cat in his absence. Ordinarily, this is no big deal, I'm good with cats, and so I generally look forward to time with them. But this time around it's different. This time around I have just settled in to a new place, I have things which I don't want chewed and a cat who is all too willing to test my boundaries.

See, this cat hasn't been trained. He hasn't learned the boundaries, and what's worse, given the spurradic bedtimes of those living here, he hasn't figured out what's day and what's night. It's exacerbated by the fact we're all gone all day. So essentially, Hershel is his natural feline, nocturnal self. Well this translates into a world of not sleep for me.

I wound up going to bed relatively late last night, i.e. 1:15am, yea shut it, and I woke up a few hours later to Hershel being the cat burglar he is. Oh man. The cat rage has never boiled up so quickly. I lost it in record time and threw the cat against the bed almost as hard as I could. Now, before you call PETA and have be neutered for animal abuse, know that my bed is all pillows and the cat's fine. After that, I held him firmly down, and thwapped him on the head so he knew his behavior was not ok, and he seemed to understand the message. Shortly afterward he curled up between my legs and we both went to sleep peacefully until morning.

That's not to say I wasn't a goddam zombie all day though. I felt like I had gotten no sleep at all, which I didn't really cause I was on guard/watch psychologically all night, and I went to bed angry, which I hate. It's really draining.

Anyway, today was a decent day at work, classes were fine. Halfway through the day my energy reached its all time low and I was forced to buy coffee. That helped, along with a 20 minute nappie thingie. After that I regained my energy, and after work I went out for a drink with Barbie. That was chill, we just had some beer and edamame, and I made my way home.

On a side note, I spent 18600 yen on train/bus passes today. That's ridiculous. But, by my calculations, I should still do ok this month. I just have to agree not to spend everything I own in the next two days, which admittedly I'm not doing so well with. Oh, and America currently holds 5 gold medals, the leader in gold medals for now. Canada is expected to sweep the curling competition, and I'm still crossing my fingers for the men's super G Alpine event.