To work is human; to relax feline.

Dear Arrow,

I've been watching my human lately.

I think her life is changing.  

She still feeds me and gives me water (if this were not the case, I would be really concerned.  Not concerned for her so much as concerned for me.  What a horrible thing to imagine, going without food!!!  Food is the most important thing in life!!).  

But even though she always answers my "mews" for food in the morning, that morning interaction can be the last I see of her for hours.  She isn't home as much as she was when we first started living in this place.

When she is home, I often see her face doing this thing where her eyebrows push together, making two serious little lines in between them, and her lips become straight and tight. Her face usually does that when she is reading.

Sometimes, when I see that face, I come up to her and put my paw on the page she is reading, because it looks like she needs a friend.

I try to show her that snoring and snoozing and snuggling (and food, of course) are really all that matter in life.  It is what I like to call the "feline perspective."  

Sometimes she gets it.  But for the most part, she insists on living her life in the complicated manner she lives it.  It's all right, though.  It won't stop me from snoozing away blissfully when she is out and about working or going to classes or sitting here staring at those books.

We can't all have the privilege of being cats. ;)