Still Kicking

Although my blog doesn’t suggest it I am indeed living and have been doing lots of interesting things.  However, since getting out of the practice of posting the blog has suffered and it’s proved difficult to start back up.  This will be remedied soon.  I realize this is a dangerous thing to say but hopefully it will give me some needed pressure. To get the ball rolling again, here’s a story from today.

This morning in Chinese class one of my classmates was telling a story of how her cat recently came into heat and with that was making loud noises (apparently the official term is “caterwauling”) keeping her and her roommate up at night. All the cats in the city must be on the same schedule because I’ve definitely noticed the noises coming from the strays that live in the courtyard of my apartment complex. To those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of listening to a caterwauling cat, let me say that I can think of more disturbing noises but it might take me a while. My classmate ended up taking her cat to the vet to get that special surgery and since then they’ve been sleeping soundly (or at least without noise from the cat). While my classmate was telling this story, I thought it would be funny to interject my own rendition of caterwauling. My classmates were not amused and especially not my teacher who turned to me after I did it a second time and told me to stop it or she would take me to the doctor to get a surgery done. I didn’t make one peep after that.