Phone rings, so I rise
But the cat looks so betrayed
Beds aren’t s’posed to move
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Sam Spinelli
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Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore5 days ago in Humans
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I always try to make it look like the cat is at fault.
Haha, this is adorable and painfully relatable! Funny how the smallest interruptions always reveal what we’d secretly rather stay curled up inside.
I hate waking up too
Lol. know the feeling. How dare we disturb their sleep with our livelihood. Our one dog will go into another room if someone coughs or sneezes, as to say 'keep your germs over there, bud' but probably a little freaked out from being woken by the noise.
Love this, one haha I've got two cats. One might as well be a stuffed animal. He's constantly tucked under my arm. The other, sadly my favorite, is always afraid. She's been with me since she was about 4 weeks old... She's five now and always acts like shes never seen me before haha But that moment when she chooses to sit with me. Heaven.
Okay, that was adorable.