January 2015

Read:
- Rappaccini's Crow by Cat Rambo (www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/rappaccinis-crow/)
- Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (K)
- Challoner, Murray & Balfour: Monster Hunters at Law by Juliet E. McKenna (K)
- Bird in the Cathedral by Nicole C. Ford (Everyday Fiction)
- On Not Noticing a Bear by Amy Sisson (Everyday Fiction)
- The Wind’s Betrayal by M. P. Rossi (Everyday Fiction)
- Favorite by Nicole C. Ford (http://www.everydayfiction.com/favorite-by-nicole-c-ford/)
- First Tattoo by Christina Morris (http://www.everydayfiction.com/first-tattoo-by-christina-morris/)
- Crusty Guru by Jim Brennan (http://www.everydayfiction.com/crusty-guru-by-jim-brennan/)
- Barbara Allen and Sweet Billie by Paul McAuley ( http://www.omegacom.demon.co.uk/Barbara_Allen.htm)
- Scarecrow by Alyssa Wong ( http://www.tor.com/stories/2015/01/scarecrow)
- I AM PIRLI, YOU ARE OONA • by Sandy Parsons ()
- Separation by Matthew King(http://www.everydayfiction.com/separation-by-matthew-king/)

Studied:
- Learning How To Learn (Coursera)

The Perils of being an Aged Cat

Little sleeps a lot—even for a cat. And she sleeps exceedingly deeply. She favours positions where her head is lower than her body. With the inevitable risk of slippage. Regularly her humans fail to catch her before she hits the ground still completely relaxed and snoring. She wakes up on the floor very confused.
Sometimes.
If she slides off me in the middle of the night, she tends to come to rest, supine, all her pink jelly beans upmost, as if a small pocket of gravity had reversed and she was merely intending to land on the ceiling.
Doesn't always work. She has slipped off my lap and hit the floor headfirst on several occasions.