Can't talk long. Nuking a veggie burger. Quaffing a Whole Foods Cherry Vanilla Creme Soda (made from pure cane sugar without any GMO issues - it is strange to celebrate that I'm drinking down pure sugar - and have you seen the gourmet flavoured sugar bulk bar at WF now? - to die for). Reading 3/4 of the play (not by Aeschylus at all; I'm a dorkins). Wondering if the "very latest" due date for the final paper is really five hours from now, or if it was extended as he mentioned it would be (might be?). Watching the second season of Desperate Housewives as ordered from iTunes (too impatient for BitTorrent). Hoping Susan gets rid of whats-his-face the emotionally crippled and largely illogical plumber once and for all.
But I just wanted to say that I was just walking past Owl's hamitat where he is fast asleep in his east cottage, which is just down the tunnel from the main estate, before you get the the bend that leads to the wheelworks. He's completely zonked out in a nest of toilet paper, sprawled comfortably on his two-inch back. But what are his little feet doing? Oh, they're running!
And I just wanted to say, isn't that the best? Whether it's a dog or a hamster or a cat (do budgies flitter their wings while asleep?), watching an animal dream is one of those great things in life. (Assuming they are running with freedom and pleasure and not as part of a desperate escape from animated vacuum cleaner monsters, or somesuch.) How can people think that something that dreams doesn't have a soul?
Run, run, run, little Owl. I hope it's a good dream. Just to be safe, I'll wait until tonight to vacuum.
tHIS IS JUST VERY WIERD??
Posted by: DAVID | 08 August 2006 at 07:19 PM
tHIS IS JUST VERY WIERD??
Posted by: DAVID | 08 August 2006 at 07:20 PM
What's weird? Hamsters running in their sleep? I don't see it often but it's way too cute when it happens.
Posted by: Shari | 08 August 2006 at 08:41 PM