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Those of you asking for cat pictures: trust me, I LOVE posting updates on the cats. Unfortunately, with my relatively new full-time-working lifestyle, I’m not home nearly as much as I used to be, so I don’t have as many chances to capture their antics on film.

I know it’s a poor substitute, but here instead of photos are brief observations on my cats:

• They are both crazy.
• Well, that was vague. What I mean is they are socially skittish. They are scared of everyone and usually won’t come out if anyone new is over. Even when they like people, they do not like to be touched. They DO like to be NEAR people, just not in contact.
• Maggie is dumber, more slim but ultimately more affectionate than Hopey. She is the first to come out of hiding, and the first to run away. She likes being pet, but does not like to sit in laps.
• Hopey is all or nothing with petting. She either bites your hand, or curls up in your lap and demands, via yelping meows, to be pet.
• They are both very site-specific animals. Hopey likes people who are sitting in front of the computer, or standing at the bathroom sink. She hates all other people. Maggie likes people who are lying on the bed or setting the alarm clock, but does not trust people walking through the living room.
• Maggie loves wet food. Hopey loves all food. Hopey is fat. In Love and Rocket’s comics, it was Maggie who got fat. I have misnamed the animals.
• I feed them once a day, at 7am. The cats know this and are waiting by my bed. Recently, Hopey has been becoming more aggressive about waking me up. She used to just stare. Now she walks on my head and occasionally bats at my face. When I wake up and look at her, she runs away.

I would write more about my cats, but my testicles just shrunk and fell off. More some other time.

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