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March 03, 2005
the beta cat
I awoke, as usual, with a black cat clambering upon my shoulder and face. The interesting thing to me at that moment was that I had dreamed about this black cat. In the dream he had behaved very much like he does in (my) waking life: he got loose in a church during a sermon. I, my son, and one of my sisters were in hot pursuit.
This is a near perfect reproduction of what happened yesterday morning. I paused at the door before leaving for work to speak with my sister-in-law, and the cat took that opportunity to dart beneath my feet from his basement lair (where we're staying), through the kitchen and off into the livingroom. My son and I gave chase with a will: we were trying to leave early that morning so we could stop at the sledding hill on the way to our respective vocations. But our stomping urgency only banked the fires of the cat's alarm and alacrity. In the end we never did lay a hand on him; he availed himself of the still-open basement door.
So this morning I awoke contemplating my dream, and mumbled to the cat something about "true to form..." It's what I said next which revealed something to me about the way I sometimes think. I sometimes (mentally) make an unusual or startling assertion, and then test it to see how or if it could be true. This morning I said to the cat, "You're an informationist." I then was able to observe, as one often can in the hazy, magical state between dreaming and waking, that I immediately set about pondering this statement. How is the cat an informationist?
If I'd succeeded, in some clever fashion, in explaining that one to myself, I doubt I'd have ever noticed this interesting thing about how I think. But as it happens, I did fail to explain just how my cat is an informationist. If he could be, and you have some idea how, by all means, please comment.
Posted by joel at March 3, 2005 06:43 AM
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Yes, he IS an informationist. (What's an informationist?) This made me laugh. You're goofy when you wake up, bro.
Posted by: Honest + Popular at March 4, 2005 10:17 AM
please fish out a small recording device and ramble fervently into it until you come to your senses every morning. I wanna hear it.
Posted by: k_sra at March 7, 2005 04:34 PM
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