I think some of you will enjoy
these. I'm going to share whatever thoughts I've got about Downton after tomorrow because after tomorrow I will have seen everything there is to see this season and no one can accidentally spoil me.
I have some ideas for the Valentine's Day prompts from
fireflowersims Fall in Love +5000 meme . Unfortunately, I have some kind of flu or cold that is making me very dumb right now, so they will remain ideas for a little while. I'm going to hear Placido Domingo sing tomorrow and I'm just going to hope it doesn't completely obliterate me. Plus I hate sore throats and laryngitis when I have to teach, dammit.
My mom is coming to visit! YAAAY.
My Cat From Hell had its season finale today, and I might post my recap/comments later, too. It's been such a huge hit that it's already casting for its third season and there will be ten episodes, not three (Season 1) or six (Season Two.) I still say that a good chunk of the appeal is that there hasn't been much for cat owners at all. Would you believe Animal Planet didn't think there would be enough of a market? This, from the people who brought you Hillbilly Handfishin' and Infested! ? It's not just the show itself: people watch it and think, "you mean there's some cat furniture that isn't covered with shaggy beige carpet and doesn't look like crap?"
They're also moving out to NYC, so if you live in NYC or LA and you have a seriously bananas cat, you can send them in a video. Of course, they're looking for serious crazy nuts, and it helps if your cat is something odd-looking, like a Sphinx (hairless) or a Maine Coon (the size of a bus), and your polyamorous household is about to collapse because of the cat. I'm tempted to volunteer my parents, who have five cats and such intense territory issues that the upstairs cats won't come down until 9 PM, when my Dad takes the big cats down to the basement. It's a rotation system. The thing is that my Dad doesn't think this multi-story situation is a problem. It's one of those TS Eliot things: real bred to the bone cat people just automatically think "ok, so what if the cat is lying across the stairs. I'll just kind of step up an extra step." In fact, they won't even think about it at all; they'll just do it. It's completely true that dogs have owners and cats have staff.
Now you know why my legacy was so cat-obsessed.
Dang, I am wiped, but I'll try to do one of those stories anyhow.