All I know is, she's gone.

[grinninfoole]

Our cat Tilda has disappeared. She went out Friday evening, and hasn’t come back since. We’ve gone all around out back looking for her, we’ve scattered cat litter in the back yard to help her find her way home, and I passed out flyers with her picture and our phone number on them. So far, nothing. Anything can happen, of course, and I well recall another cat called Orestes who literally disappeared for a month before turning up one day. But I can’t shake the feeling that I’ll never see Tilda again, and it makes me ache inside. She's lived with us for just about 4 years (which makes her seven!), and I really hope she comes home.

(It isn't helping my mood that I watched the end of Life on Mars. SPOILER!


I really liked the people Sam encountered in 1973, and I can understand why he'd choose them over the apparently drab life he's living in 2006, with no friends or connections, but they aren't real. So his decision to jump off a building rather than try and make friends with real people just makes me sad. I have wasted so much of my life getting stuck in fantasy, and not embracing relationships with actual people (or myself), and I just find it a bit... upsetting that Sam chooses to feel something, but to do so he retreats into imagination and death, rather than life. They play Somewhere Over The Rainbow, and I get the connection to the Wizard of Oz, but I honestly never understood why Dorothy would prefer drab old b&w Kansas to wonderful technicolor Oz. Sam rejects his Kansas, but I don't agree with his choice. (however satisfying it was to see Sam and Annie reunite, and listen to Sam and Gene bicker.)

Comments

[vizsludraugas.livejournal.com]

I hope she turns up.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[sydneycat.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I hope she returns and is safe...maybe she just found somewhere dry and didn't want to deal with the rain this weekend.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Well, she's still not back, but I'm hoping she's decided joined twelve dwarves and a wizard for an epic quest and we'll see her sooner or later with a sack full of treasure.

[lorrainemarker.livejournal.com]

Hopefully she's safe. If you don't find her immediately don't give up my cat Stucco went for a walkabout in Febuary and showed up safe & sound last night.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I hope we're equally lucky.

[mole-underfield.livejournal.com]

Mom & Dad & I hope Tilda returns safe and sound.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[spacepug.livejournal.com]

I hope she turns up, safe and sound.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

Yikes, I'm sorry to hear about Tilda! I hope she turns up soon (or has already).

Re: Life on Mars, Mark and I just finished the series a few days ago (my second time watching it, his first), and... yeah, it's pretty gutting. I still don't know how I feel about the ending. (SPOILER ALERT) I mean, on the one hand I feel happy for Sam that he found a place where he was happy and where he realized he belonged, but on the other hand, from a real-world perspective, it's horrifying! And yet, I can't forget his genuine grin as he launches himself off the top of the building, and the sense that he was making the right choice. But of course, what he's really doing is killing himself, and how can you cheer for someone to do that?

But I do recall that the first time I watched the finale, I saw it as... uplifting, maybe? The affirmation that sometimes what's going on in your own head can be just as real and powerful as what's going on in the world around you was actually something that was helpful to me at the time. But as you point out, there are plenty of situations in which that is exactly the wrong thing for people to hear.

(Totally unrelated, but: thank you for sending me that awesome librarian video!)

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Yeah, his grin and the enthusiasm with which he leapt were lovable, and it was great to see him with Annie and then bickering with Gene.

I just wish it was going to last more than however long he survives on life support. Still, I suppose nothing ever really does.

Which reminds me: are you watching the new Dr. Who? It's really good.

(Glad you liked the librarian video. :)

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

Yes, we're watching the new Doctor Who -- so much fun! I loved last week's (UK) episode especially, but haven't seen this week's yet. Wish I liked Amy better, but it's made up for by how much I want to draw giant sparkly hearts all around Matt Smith's Doctor.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Oh, are you keeping up with the UK airings?

I'm watching on BBC America, so I just saw Cold Blood. Poor Rory.

I like Amy's robust and ribald humor, and her bold assertiveness. Though it would have been awesome if she'd gone with him at age 7. I really dug the little girl.

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

Yep, we're watching the UK airings. Keep an eye out for "The Lodger" -- that's the one I've loved best so far.

Agreed that the little girl was awesome!