going puppy to puppy

A few months ago, my boyfriend’s then-roommate brought home a package of toilet paper intended for consumers with children of the potty-training age. On the TP, spaced five or six sheets apart, were puppies in various jungle scenes. The idea was simple: children were to follow the paw prints that separated the dogs until they reached a puppy. Once the child tore at the puppy, he or she would have acquired roughly five sheets of toilet paper, an amount the manufacturers declared average for one wipe.

We three (my boyfriend, his roommate, and I) took to the training-paper immediately. We were nearing the end of our undergraduate careers with no set plans for the future. There was so much we wanted to do; there was so little we knew how to do. We imagined potty-trainers and we envied them. How confident they must be! we thought, sure to find a guide dog at the end of those paw prints.

There are no toiletries to guide the recent graduate. Nor is there a standard amount of time between graduation and “what I want to do with my life.” More and more graduates are pursuing temporary careers, putting law school, etc. on hold. I am no exception. I plan, eventually, to enroll in a graduate program and get my Ph.D in Literature, but not quite yet. This blog will serve as a record of my time in the paw prints.

Nov 13

another post about my cat

I am of the belief that all Philadelphia landlords are scum. I have rented two apartments and two houses from four different real estate companies and, so far, no one has proved me wrong. The man and woman who own Rittenhouse Properties (from whom I rent currently), despite being lovely people, have made no attempt to rectify the fact that for the last month and a half there has been no cold water in my shower.

I did not mistype- cold water. No cold water comes out of my shower. Hot water does. Hot water in large scalding amounts. Between desperate calls to Rittenhouse Properties, Max takes army showers. I prefer the bath route, an activity which fascinates Monsieur Chaton. He has been crawling into bed at night with various wet patches. I assumed he had been playing in his water dish until I walked in one morning to find this grinning face in the sink:

It seems kitty is a bath baby, too.


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