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Adora-vole

April 21, 2011emily No Comments »

Subtitle: Things that go “mrowr-urmmm” in the night. I’d just managed to fall asleep the other night when I heard it. An insistent, repeated, “mrowr-urmmmm…. mrowr-urmmmmmm.” It was clearly a cat, but it sounded sort of far away and muffled. John called out to whoever it was to shut up, which they did. And then [...]

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Frog is my co-pilot

March 16, 2011emily 1 Comment »

Goodness, I have a blog, don’t I? Where were we? Oh, right, I got my PhD and fell off the face of the world for two weeks. (Actually, because of my PhD and the lead up to it, I’d fallen off the face of the world for the two months prior, but we’ll just keep [...]

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A different kind of relationship

January 10, 2011emily 2 Comments »

We saw them across the parking lot: one large and white, one smaller, gray and spry. Both wary. As we walked towards them, John said, “don’t touch that cat– you touch that cat, that cat is yours.” The large one made himself scarce, but the gray one cocked his head and walked towards my extended [...]

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