4.7.02 – it’s a really weird feeling

the whole world turned green overnight. yesterday all the grass was still brown, the willow trees had just the slightest spring haze, and the trees weren’t even thinking about budding out. this morning, i woke up and everything was green. the willow trees are big clouds of pale green and all the trees are in that about-to-burst-out-in-leaf moment of anticipation. since i’m never awake in the morning anyway, i love the shift to daylight savings time, when all the light is concentrated at the end of the day.

i took a nap on the sofa this afternoon, and serra (my parents’ golden retriever) came and slept on my feet, and zeke flopped out on my stomach, so that i literally had an animal blanket to sleep under. i think that zeke is left-pawed. he always attacks with the left-paw in the lead. i’ve realized that zeke is a not a good starter-cat. one who has never owned a cat before should probably think about starting with a slower, fatter model than zeke. he’s endless amounts of fun, but requires the sort of respect that non-cat people take for arrogance. today, in an effort to catch the toy mouse i was holding, zeke ran along the outside of the banisters in the upstairs hallway. that went fine until he tried to squeeze between the newel post at the top of the stairs and the first spindle on the stairs – and he got stuck. the space between those two posts is narrower than the others, and his head, front legs and belly fit through, but his pelvis was too wide. i had to lift him up, struggling and clawing at me, to a wider part of the railing in order to get him through, because if he’d backed up he would have fallen to the tile floor 12 feet below. cats should come with a rating when you adopt them. zeke would with an advanced-cat-owners-only certification.

tom petty on behind the music:

“i don’t know if you’ve ever had someone try to kill ya, but it’s a really weird feeling.”