Did you know...

there is such a thing as a cattery??? They're places where cats stay temporarily either when being bred or when their owners can't take care of them.



ALSO you can be a cattery owner! Which makes you a little like a cat RA, pimp, and foster parent rolled into one. And although I'm sure you throw cat birthday parties as a cattery owner, this picture from here sort of makes me wish you did. Ahhh the things I'm required to research in the name of work.

Another thing you should know: I'm now on twitter. al_morley. Follow me!

Today's coworker

Today my coworker is the old man sitting across from me at the library. He's wearing rainbow suspenders, rocking some seriously bushy eyebrows, and using a manifying glass to read the newspaper. He looks like this:

Except without the talking dog and floating house.

It has to be said: I love old people and libraries.

(picture found here)

Things To Do

Today's been one of those crazy productive days. Which is awesome because it makes up for yesterday which was one of those crazy unproductive days. I think by 5 o'clock I'd done two actual hours of work...yeah, it was that bad. Today though I'm flying through the writing (or at least I was) until I found this:


I'm obsessed and now just want to take a perma break until it's finished and hanging in my room.

(pic from designsponge)

Hatin'

There are times when I complain bitterly about this job. This usually happens when people get doughnuts at meetings, surprise birthday parties thrown for them by coworkers, or get to go to Mexico on business trips (seriously who does that??). But then there are days like today when I spend all morning looking at pictures like this:


and this:

in the name of research and realize I need to start appreciatin'.

(pics from here:http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-pets and here: http://www.cowbelly.com/index.html)

Upgrading the Office

It's (almost) spring! Which should probably mean cleaning, but here at the office means new! New gardening plots, suntans, and computers. After months of the old machine threatening to erase my hard drive every time I turned it on, I finally have a new machine humming away at my desk.

It's no:


or:


but it'll do.