the consensus is that kitty has gotten too fat. she was a stray. i think she deserves some leeway(sp?). but i did give her a little less yummy chicken in gravy this morning and she meowed at me when she realized the discrepancy. life is hard. i gave her some hairball treats to compensate. i wouldn't want her to get desperate.
sarah and kitty are becoming fast friends. kitty sits on her lap every chance she gets and they chat. and per above, sarah is often to be seen petting kitty with two hands and saying "faaaaat". that's love.
so i replayed the whole job interview from yesterday and decided that i was an idiot. of course you think of a thousand things to say when it doesn't matter and is in fact too late. and probably everyone thinks they're an idiot after an interview. i just have to hope that everyone else was more idiotic than i. what a thing to hope for.
i realized also today that i have been confusing foreign travelers with my speech. not so much slang, but just unusual words. when someone asks me something at the bank, like "can i cash this?" if i can, i say "absolutely" in a dazzling and positive way. it's better than yes, it's a guarantee. but i've noticed that the german folks, and the french folks and definitely the russian folks have no idea what i'm talking about. i think they know it's a positive response, but somehow i don't think it's covered in berlitz english. i surely don't know the equivalent in spanish or french for all my years of study, so maybe i should just say "yes", and leave it at that. i enjoy the international customers more than tia or mary. tia prefers that all people speak english and look like her. mary, i think, just doesn't like to be misunderstood. i think it's nice that other people like to come here. i would like to think that while i was traveling foreign bankers would be so enthusiastic about cashing my travelers checks that they confused me totally with the dazzling and positive language.