-Michael Nelson
I want to trade cats with Michael Nelson. Clueless and ADfH prefer to warn me about an hour in advance that the alarm will be going off.
We signed the lease Saturday. The unit we'll be taking is nicely placed. It's near the woods, with a raised patio shaded by a tall maple. It has lots of hooks for hanging plants. The garden area is weeded, but not planted, which should make it easy for me to put in a few things of my own. We only get one reserved parking spot, but there are a fair number of open spots nearby, and I'll be happy to give the reserved spot (right outside our door) to the Prof for his use.
After lease signing we went to a nearby cinema and saw "Sum of All Fears". Morgan Freeman was, as always, wonderful. Ben Affleck wasn't nearly as annoying as he's capable of being. I hadn't read the Clancey book, so I didn't know the plotline in advance; this kept me on the edge for nearly the entire movie. The special effects were exceptionally well done. It was definitely worth the price of a matinee admission.
We also rented Harry Potter over the weekend. We'd already seen it in the theater, but it was a nice, brainless romp for an easy weekend evening. I still don't really "get" the Harry Potter craze; I've read all the books and they were good, but I wouldn't have thought they were "cult status" caliber. Still, as everybody hastens to remind me when I say this, "anything that gets kids to read is a good thing." Can't argue with the results.
Sunday was far less productive. My original plans were to hit the zoo to complete a quiz I need to hand in to reactivate my volunteer status. I went down with The Prof and my friend Twenty-one. Twenty-one and I went through vet school together; she saved me from being the oldest one in our class by a few months. She takes in cats that no one else can/will adopt and is responsible for my acquiring the ACfH. Anyhow, I ended up misplacing her about fifteen minutes into our visit, so I just sat tight in the last place I saw her. The Prof stayed with me for the first hour, but neither one of us saw the point of both of us sitting there worrying what happened to Twenty-one, so he went off to take in the zoo while I waited. After a little over another hour, Twenty-one showed up, but it was close to closing time at that point and I got precious little of my quiz completed. Guess I'll just have to go down again next weekend. Hard to get upset about that.
I made an interesting discovery about myself over the weekend. When the time comes, I may well be interested in marrying again. Not now, and not in the immediate future. But someday. I'm discovering that perhaps it is possible to completely share my life and thoughts with someone. I'm finding out that sometimes one plus one is greater than two.