prayers up for miette please. she suffered a vestibular attack earlier — lost control of her back legs and the muscles of her eyes. we raced her to the emergency vet where they gave her fluids and we should know more in the next few days. in the meantime … continue to Draw Her basically this is a cat you never want to see looking more confused than she already does. she resembles a beanbag that has lost half its “beans” (IQ points) through a tiny hole in one corner. this is not madame curie. this is miette.

I wrote about covid, continuing symptoms of covid, and Jason’s Unshakeable Belief That the Cats Had It for @lrb lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/… It’s a fairly light piece — it took me 3+ months to be able to write anything about it — so I’ll mention a few more things here.

me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you

miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!! jail for mother for

One

Thousand

Years