Milo the cat is awake and currently sitting on the outside window ledge of my bedroom, crying relentlessly, afraid that I might actually forget that she is there. No fear. She signalled her presence at 7am this morning from the back hall - same cry, different location.The function of her cry differed only in concept - then it was 'let me out', now it's 'let me in'. The cry also changes from a quiet but pleading reminder of her presence to an outright screech that could curdle the blood if you didn't know that it was simply my incredibly self-oriented cat's commentary on the fact that her needs simply aren't being met in the fashion that she has come to expect.
Her world is so relentlessly self-centred that I am envious. I wonder whether my lying howling and crying until I got what I wanted would work? Whether sitting by the office of certain officious managers that I have encountered in the past, meowing quietly but presistently, would have made them relent and allow me my three days off even though I was half an hour short of the prerequisite two weeks notice in making such a leave request? Whether unexpected life events could be scheduled two weeks in advance? Although to be fair, the afore-mentioned manager did also state that "we are human" - I'm unsure who the collective 'we' referred to are and I'm also unsure about the choice of adjective used!
However I shall continue to watch Milo and learn. Persistence does seem to be the key although she has disappeared now so I'm not quite sure what learning to draw from that.....
