This is sad (if it's true): RUMORS OF CAT MAFIA SWEEP BERLIN

Residents of Berlin are being advised to lock up their cats amid rumors that they are being stolen and sold to fur traders and vivisectionists by ruthless cat snatchers driving vans with tinted windows.

The city's animal protection society said it has recently been getting calls from people in two districts of southwestern Berlin who think their cats might have been stolen by thieves. "People have noticed vans with dark windows," said Marcel Gäding, spokesman for the society. "One could assume that has something to do with it."

"You see a lot of women walking around town wearing coats with beautiful fur collars. In many cases it's synthetic fur but it's also often cat fur. Many people don't realize what they're wearing around their necks. For all they know it could be their own missing cat," said Gäding.

Huh. I have my doubts. One can assume a lot of things....

Sounds more like an urban myth. Then again, so did Cruella Deville.

That the world might not exist right through there

Oh, I know exactly what you mean.

The funny thing is, the world right in front of my eyes simply doesn't exist, but the world that's all over the world, all these oceans across, is right here at my fingertips.

Unless the fog imagines all of you, of course.

Unless the fog imagines all of you, of course.

Did you want me to not sleep tonight? I'm going to be pondering the mechanics of that a while.

I got up, I charged the phone, I made dinner with meat in it, I even started watching Supernatural.

I wish I could take more pain medication, but I need to be on my A game at 9am tomorrow. So, no. And I can go back to sleep once it's done.

Did you want me to not sleep tonight?

Oh, no! If I go through a "white night" (almost second in a row), the least that the universe can do is bless you with a good long restful night sleep!

I am still up working. Folk in the Israel office are starting to show up on Skype. ugh.

all I am doing is compiling notes from meetings over this week that have info on due dates, dones, to dos... and then am sending out emails with immediate to do assignments for tomorrow morning. We have too much going on. This should not be a 2-3 hour job.

I really should get Skype.

The sky is beginning to show throw the fog. ita! The universe is here!

msbelle, sorry about the job burden.

Everyone should get skype, and msbelle should get a webcam so I can look at Mac.

Nilly, I'm glad the universe has reappeared, otherwise you'd never get home.

It's FREEZING in here. Most likely because it's only 18 degrees outside. I should be bundled up in bed but I took a 3 hour nap from 5-8 which has screwed with my sleep cycle.

I've looked at Skype but I don't know that many people who are on the computer as much as I am (besides buffistas).

My sister and I seem to talk every day, but I am working on some side projects for her. Sadly, somehow, my weekly actual call home seems to have dropped off in the interim. My dad has Skype too, and we've talked once. My mother hasn't installed it yet.

Of course, they all live in the same house, so it's not like they can't all crowd my sister's laptop with the camera. But they email each other stuff from one room to another, so what else would I expect but fragmentation.

Where the hell is my finger brace? Man, when my partner in pain gets back, he's going to have hella straightening to do and I shudder to think of how much that will hurt.