Another harangue of vocabulary: now with kitty pictures

So, OK, forcing all these platitudes and all this inflated diction is kind of ridiculous. This is less than a trenchant use of language. However, it helps me when I peruse the vocabulary words in some sort of context to remember what they mean. For this reason, I will not attempt to rarefy the verbosity of this blog. (and FYI: soon I’ll take the GRE, and we’ll be back to more casual entries)

Meet Cairo and Alexandria. My savage, mercurial, little darlings.



The life of my cats is quite quotidian. But, I imagine the same thing happening every day makes for a halcyon existence for the territorial little beasts. They inveigle my attention at the most inconvenient times, but their trickery does not make me irascible. Cairo especially likes to "help" me study.





I actually enjoy taking breaks from the quiescence of study and spending time with them. Especially after a hard day at work, their perspicacious playfulness is redoubtable.



Additionally, the kitties are inured to my own playful attacks upon them. I try not to be penurious with the time I spend with them. Also, play time is useful because it makes them soporific. A good romp of running and pouncing is ideal before bedtime.



Together, they are truculent and pounce and bite at each other fearlessly. However, with my play-attacks, they are more chary. My attacks are far from pernicious, and generally consist of a surfeit of kisses on their heads and nuzzling in their bellies.



My clinging displays of attention might feel like perfidy for my cats. They are recondite under the bed, I coax them out, and lavish them with attention they might not find particularly emollient. They are the most recalcitrant after I give them a little cat nip and they completely resist me picking them up and teasing them.



I keep my cats indoors and have obviated their need to wander in the neighborhood by opening the deck in order to fill their intransigent need to observe the outdoors. Sometimes cats are so aloof, their momentary affection can seem like spurious attempts for attention or food. They certainly have a great deal of acumen, even my lazy in-door cats, but lovingness is just as endemic to my cats as playfulness I believe.



From my incipient experience with the kittens, I loved them. I enjoy caring for them, feeding them salubrious food so they will grow up strong and healthy, sedulously playing with them every night, and repudiating bad behavior. I try to remain consistent when training my cats so as not to enervate the rules.



I also take care of their hygiene, although Cairo behaves as though getting his nails trimmed was a virulent punishment and Alexandria treats getting brushed with opprobrium. She prefers her own methods of cleanliness.



From their inchoate times in the house, I have socialized them with different people, to avoid implacable feline behavior. I feel like the shyness of Alexandria in particular has been abated.



Neither cat has ever had the disposition to fulminate anyone with hisses, and when jumping and playing they take perfunctory caution to make sure their claws are retracted.



While I have always been an animal lover, I only recently adopted my own pets. Now I have solvent means to support them, as well as a tenable amount of time to nurture them. While I was not penurious before, time and space made me repudiate adopting animals prematurely. I wanted to give proper care to my cats and not be a profligate who takes on more responsiblity than is managable. They were worth the wait!