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Date: 23 September 2005 10:47:24
Yesterday morning I opened the front door on my way out and realised I'd left the plastic bottles for recycling (the skip is at work) in the back yard. I left the front door open and headed out the back to get the bottles, then closed both doors and headed off for work.
When I came home I was confronted with a very scared, ginger furry thing on the stairs that ran up stairs away from me. Awkward, as on having a look round I couldn't find it, and was worried if I did it would be cornered and would be afraid to run past me. I left the front door ajar for an hour or so and assumed it had found its way out.
Later on we were both in the TV room and heard a strange noise... turned off the TV and it got louder... the poor thing was in the hallway trying to find a door that led out. In a joint effort, it backed into a corner near the back door so I stroked it (it wasn't THAT frightened) while The Spouse™ opened the back door. Cue rapid exit of cat.
We just hope it managed to cross its little legs all day and we haven't any nasty surprises waiting, and also that it had a good enough sniff around to discourage any more mice from coming in. I was getting something out of the desk in the dining room the other day and smelled an odd smell - there was a mouse on the trap behind it that must have been theresince we were on holiday (3 weeks possibly). Dehydrated mouse - lovely.
Currently reading: World Music, a Very Short Introduction. Not as impressed as with previous ones in the series. It's probably the topic I know most about, yet I understand it least - you need to know lots of humanities jargon (alterity? epistemological? ontology? aesthetic? - obviously I have heard some of them before but they make no sense if I apply the meanings I know to them! So for example it seems "aesthetic" in this context means "not religious"). I tried some of them on my music graduate friend and she had no clue, either.