[m i a o w] the cat

Have not, thus far, had time to even squeak, let alone blog. After a relatively (relative to last time) relaxed trip down to Melbourne, I was standing at the interminable baggage carousel and M rang to say that we had received and offer on the house! Revelation. It wasn’t what we are after, but it was quite near - so we decided to do a counter offer. Of course, I was unable to sign the documents - thus I had to arrange for them to be faxed to L’s husband’s workplace - L then had to hoon me into the city (where the traffic was so bad that I had to jump out of the car and run for it) so I could sign stuff and then fax it back. The same thing happened again and the very accommodating restaurant that we went to for dinner. Everything is still up in the air (and possibly shaping up for a sharp nosedive) as I type, so I will have to leave the story there…but the fact that someone was keen enough to make an offer is very comforting.

Later that night (after being driven by other nice people) to E’s house, I settled down on my mattress on the floor and prepared to cark it for six hours - hoping that I would wake up not looking too deathlike for my interview the next morning. Sleep I did. Only to wake three hours later in absolute fright…the kind of fright where you jolt out of sleep and breathe in so deeply that your toenails crinkle. I had been reading Joe R. Lansdale’s Savage Season on the plane, and a lot of it was so full on that I had to keep putting it down and taking little breaks. Anyway, it must have made quite an impression, because I awoke convinced that there was a Cottonmouth Water Moccasin on my feet.That’s right. I had the whole name in my head. After being rigid with fear for about 20 seconds, I realised that it was far more likely to actually be Sonic, E’s black cat rather than the only North American poisonous water snake. Logic comes slowly in the dead of the night.

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That is so bizarre! I had a dream the other night that a watersnake came out of water while i was standing at the water’s edge and bit my toe and hung on - and i actually felt it so badly that i woke up, convinced it was there. Is there something going around?

robert typed this on Mar 11 05 at 4:29 pm