Editorial assistantstangential

October 14, 2006

Cats are overrated. One cannot possibly earn a respectable living in their presence.

They demand continual maid service and food at absurdly early hours. They chew at pens and pencils, slobber on erasers, lie on manuscripts, walk across keyboards, and deposit fur in CPUs. They pace endlessly on the desktop, pausing in each direction just long enough to let tip of feline tail massage tip of human nose, generally at inconvenient human times. In sum, they generally distract one to no end and contribute nothing to the mortgage. Nothing. And they complain about the food. They are useless, arrogant, profligate freeloaders.

Does anyone want three?