Text, un: ambiguity

[interconnectedness]

How does one get a cat to leave them alone?

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audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

One doesn't. She's yours now, Simon.

[interconnectedness]

I still object, Alex.

[11calls]

Why? Is she harming you? Are you allergic to her? Is she peeing in your bed?

[interconnectedness]

She won’t leave me alone.

[11calls]

[Alex doesn't say that she knows how that feels, but she almost does.]

But she's just trying to show you that she cares. You're her person now, Simon. You're part of her family. And good families want to protect and take care of one another. So she's probably trying to take care of you.

[interconnectedness]

Cats aren't people.

[11calls]

Some cats are better than some people, actually.

[Also don't think she didn't see that ya'll were talking about two of her down there, Simon. She totally did.]

[interconnectedness]

[ He wouldn't try to hide it anyway. ]

So are some carrots.

[11calls]

But carrots don't love you back.

[interconnectedness]

But they taste good.

[11calls]

[A food Simon likes. Alex's just going to add that to the archive.]

Still comparing apples to oranges. Or cats to carrots, honestly.

[Alex Reagan bad joke activate!]

[interconnectedness]

The argument still stands.

[11calls]

She's not going to go away, Simon. In the end, you just have to sort of accept the things that you can't change. You can't change me right? Well, you can't change her either.

So name her Alex too or whatever, but start accepting it.

[interconnectedness]

I will not name it Alex.

[11calls]

Well, I'm glad for that. It'd be really confusing.

But still. This is one of those things you're going to have to accept, Simon. Felis is yours now. And your hers.

[interconnectedness]

I don't have to accept it. It's a one-sided thing.

[ He's going to go down fighting this cat. ]

[11calls]

[Simon Reese bought low by a cat. Their fandom would have a field day.]

Is this something that's easier to fight? Like is it something worth fighting for, Simon?

[interconnectedness]

Mm.

[ he still can’t really articulate what bothers him about the cat.

He doesn’t know how to deal with the affection or demand for affection from him. ]

[11calls]

Why don't you just give it some time to grow on you, okay?

[interconnectedness]

Why do people not give diseases time to grow?

[11calls]

You cannot equate the two, Simon.

[interconnectedness]

Why not, Alex?

[11calls]

Pets are like small children, Simon. They're small children who don't have reasoning capabilities, so when one decides it likes you, you just go with it. Even I know that.

[A beat.]

And small children or animals caring for you aren't diseases.

[interconnectedness]

[ He sighs deeply. ]

It clearly has something wrong with it if it's picked me.

[ What's this admitting something real without a bunch of cryptic junk around it? ]

[11calls]

[What are you doing, Simon, are you trying to give her a heart attack?]

I don't think that there's something wrong with her for picking you. I mean, I would. Is there something wrong with me?