My day got off to a pretty gross start early this morning. First, I turned on my TiVo right when I woke up. The first human words I heard today - I kid you not - were: "No creature is more industrious than the dung beetle." Ugh! Then, I discovered a gross taste in my mouth. Turns out there was a hair in it. I have no idea why - because you would think they would be pretty inert but for some reason they really mess with the taste in my mouth. Clears up as soon as I pull them out. Does this ever happen to women? Seems like with long hair it would be even more annoying. My cat woke me up bright and early today, serenading me with her pleasant yowling. You think an alarm clock is bad. Wait until you hear something like this. She leaps onto my night stand next to my bed, sits on it in that upright relaxed, matter-of-fact fashion of cats, and lets out with a soprano-like high-pitched cry. Today, she improved upon her usual delivery, by afterwards walking from the night-stand to the pillow next to me. There, she continued her feline opera. I think the gist of it was, "feed me now - it has already been 10 hours since the last time you fed me". Clearly, in the cat head this constitutes a major emergency and triggers the onset of a loud, noisy bout of feline depression. She got fed before I did.