Time is on my side.

Yes it is! That's why I've waited so long to write again. I just love to begin posts that way.

I own an iPad now, and I've quickly become addicted to staring at the screen for hours; thus, I decided to wander over and bang out some self indulgence here.

The librarian's cat has become rather literally OCD since last we spoke. He really seems to believe that I am his mother, and while it's awfully flattering, his attention can get suffocating. Every night, he finds it necessary to mount my arm, kneading and kicking. This can go on for an hour if I don't intervene. It probably seems creepy that I wouldn't, but sometimes when a cat attacks at three a.m., you just go with it and try to get back to sleep. Moreover, when I try to stop him, he says, "ROOOW!" in a disturbing voice and lunges at me to begin nursing on the blanket, my arm, or the fuzz oozing from a hole in the comforter. Thankfully, I discovered a cat calming serum distributed by Whisker City that allays the OCD for a few hours at a time. The liquid contains supposedly calming herbs, but I have a feeling the truly active ingredient is the alcohol, and I'm worried that the poor kitty may soon count alcoholism among his troubles if I continue to administer calming water every day. This is unfortunate because I believed he may have been cured after a week with no creepy episodes, but last night he went at it again, and I promptly spiked the water.

I believe his anxiety is caused by the librarian's second cat, Aisling, who has already been among us for two years it seems. I hope they will work out the hierarchy soon so that we can all find peace.

In reading news, I still do that. Most recently, I finished The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. It's a YA title set in 1996. Two teens sign on to AOL for the first time only to stumble upon the future via Facebook. Somehow, the website just appears in the favorites bar, and they manage to figure out that they're glimpsing the banality of their future Facebook selves fifteen years early. Josh is married to the popular girl, and Emma is unhappily married and unemployed. They find out that they can change the future by making decisions in their current lives, which leads to Emma getting rid of a series of unpleasant marriage prospects and Josh getting chummy with Ms. Popular much earlier than he was supposed to. Conflict ensues, and the friends ultimately discover that living for the present is the best way to create a happy future.

The unpleasant features of this book include a few too many references to 1990s technology peppered throughout the first chapter, and a mildly didactic prompt to get over Facebook, but the plot is very compelling nonetheless, and I zipped through the story because I couldn't wait to learn what happened between Josh and Emma. Ultimately, it's a sweet Y.A. romance worth a quick read.

I hope I'll continue to read and write this year. It's one of my unresolved semi resolutions for 2012.