Hard out Here for a Cat

“Peek-a-boo, I see through you. You’re running a column with my photo to get more paw prints. To get more opposable thumbs pointing upwards. You’re a chore, Mark.” Except she doesn’t call me Mark.

More than once she has given public lectures about the number of chores that occupy a cat’s day. Perhaps you have attended. She says they are very well-attended.
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School’s Out

A caption for the photo at top: “You’re wrong. So are you. You’re wrong. Turn around. Listen to me and turn around. I was just over there and let me tell you that the water over there is even wetter than it is right here. Where’s the pleasure in that? Just stay right here. You! You’re wrong. Stay right here. What? Say that again? There’s something behind me?”
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To-Don’t Lists

There are websites for one to use to make to-do lists, apps for shopping lists (I own a not-very-smart phone, so I am an outsider to the world of apps), websites on which you can compile top 10 lists with friends. After one creates an account and logs in, not a single one of these websites offers “get a notepad or a scrap of paper and a pen and start writing your list” as the first item listed, so I guess they are indeed serious.
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