Meet Joe, the biggest challenge to my morning productivity

3 April 2008

Each morning when I’m writing my blog post one of the biggest impediments to my actually accomplishing that task is Joe, my orange tabby cat.

Here he is, looking all sleepy and innocent:

Joe, awakened from a catnap

He tends to be quite loving in the morning. He loves me, but he especially loves my cozy-yarn bathrobe. So as I type, he’s frequently on my lap, kneading my shoulders and generally making it difficult for me to work. To show his love for me, he’ll bite my clavicle. That makes it hard for me to find the flow when I’m writing.

When he’s not on my lap, he’s rubbing up against my flat-screen monitor, pushing it askew with his cheek. He also enjoys walking across my keyboard. He’s actually been known to highlight and delete whole documents. (Once he walked across the keyboard, deleted the words on the screen and typed the word “hi”. I’m not kidding.) Again, an impediment to good writing.

Luckily, he’s very cute, especially when he’s asleep. I can’t resist sharing this photo of Joe and Pip, one of our standard poodles, in a rare nap together.