dammit, i need more TIME

Good lord. There are just not enough hours in the day. It seems like before I know it, it’s midnight and I have to get to bed (katy on less than 7 hours of sleep is extra crabby), and it feels like I haven’t accomplished nearly enough. I work at a computer 8 hours a day, come home, work on my computer for another 3 hours, squeeze in dinner, maybe a little tv for unwinding and relaxation, quality time with Doc somewhere in there, and oh, all the OTHER non-digital creative stuff I am compelled to do… Could I just have about 3 more hours, please?? That’s all I ask, 3 hours per day. That way when it’s 11 p.m., I have 12 p.m., 13 p.m., and 14 p.m. left to go before it’s midnight.

Little Neko, who we estimate is maybe four months old, appears to have gone into heat today. I think that’s a little young, but who knows. Maybe she’s just small for her age. We thought that she was just being cute and kittenish, rubbing herself maniacally all over the carpet. But she wouldn’t stop for anything, and then she started crouching with her butt in the air and her tail to one side. Hmmmm…. kind of suspicious. I picked her up and she desperately wanted to be held and petted and scratched, but still kept trying to poke her butt in the air. VERY suspicious, because she is normally the squirmiest little fuzzy creature you can imagine. An extensive internet search revealed that this is typical cat-in-estrus behaviour. I am amazed how difficult it was to find any site that had straightforward information on how a cat in heat behaves.

So we get to schedule a little surgery tomorrow, I think. Poor baby. Snip snip.

Book news: We have a book signing at the Barnes and Noble at Mockingbird and 75, on June 14th from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. If you are reading this, come out!! We need you to be there, even if you’ve already bought a copy of the book!! We are going to do a little cooking demo and then sign books. (Assuming anyone comes to it at all.) Also, we are trying to set up a signing at a place called Book People in Austin. Borders at Preston and Royal wants to do a signing as well. Arushi and I know the PR guy, Jonathan Briggs, from high school.