Right around the house I'm living in, probably owned by a neighbor, is a plush, grey, highly rubenesque cat, that I cannot help finding sadly comical, because this cat is wearing a bright, teal, cloth bib. As though it's getting ready to feast on some bird, but with proper table etiquette. My suspicions are that it is quite the opposite, and this bib is some kind of anti bird-killing device, affixed to the unfortunate feline because someone watched the episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he makes all outdoor cat owners and all stray cat feeders feel extremely guilty for encouraging the destruction of the bird population and subsequent ecological wreckage.
Clip here:
In any case, it looks really awkward and makes the cat walk (and run!) in a distinctly silly way. So, entertaining enough, (does this make me a bad person?) but this cat is the guiltiest cat I've ever seen. I feel like this cat must get yelled at a lot, because whenever It see's me, or another human being, it books it out of there like it's just lit something on fire and you saw it. Like just now, on my way back from a brain break walk, it was doing something on the porch, and as soon as it saw me, it fled like it had been eating my desert on the porch. This was not a normal cat, "you must be at least 15 feet from the cat," action, this cat ran and kept running. It did not look back, it did not slow down. It was booking it until I couldn't see where it had gone off too.
Thus, you meet guilty bib cat. Your welcome.
You may be wondering why I'm writing this and not a paper. Well, great news! I finished one of my two big papers (clocking in at about 25 pages double spaced, but only around 12 pages of writing, single space. I think..) A day and a half before I thought I would! Yaaaay! That means one more big paper, and one more small paper, and then I'm done. So to celebrate, I'm shifting gears a bit and writing something.
In other news, on my way out to my walk, I was nomming on some dried mango, and saw a squirrel, on a picknick table, nomming on a nut. I though it would run away, because I was pretty close, but it seemed to think that, since I was already eating something, I wasn't going to try and eat it. So we just sat there, staring at each other, eating our respective snacks, until it was done and hopped away.
Also, yesterday evening was an incredible, horizon to horizon rainbow, bright enough to see the secondary rainbow. I've got some pictures. If I remember, I'll post 'em, but not now. It's about time to get back to work. Though I've noticed that it's almost not worth the effort to engage in high-order thinking/creating tasks after 3 pm or so. It ends up taking 4 times as long, or more, and the products are inferior. This is super interesting and useful, in that it helps me plan my day: in the morning, I do my "hard" work, and ignore easy work, and ignore all distractions like email or phones or etc. That time is too precious. Then, once I get to the afternoon, I can switch to lower brainpower tasks. Stuff that still needs to get done, but that I don't need my edge for. Transcribing written text, reading things, organizing, emails, errands.
I think this is the way to go, in terms of efficiency, when I have the luxury to organize my own time. It's also a good reason to get up early, because that extends my most productive hours. And giving myself permission to chill for some of that evening time also prevents burnout, and helps get me to bed earlier. One other really useful thing I discovered that helps with that... but I already wrote a version of that post, which I need to edit, so I'll save that for whenever I get around to it.
In any case, let's see what more I can get done before I have to ask for extensions.
-IO
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