The Case of the Bedazzled Feline

I sometimes let Natasha out at night to run around and catch small mammals. She is usually waiting at the door the next morning, ready for food and sleep. Last week, I did let her out, and in the morning she wasn't there; I wasn't worried, though, because she is a smart animal and always shows up. After work, she still wasn't there. I was outside, doing a little bit of gardening, and saw her on the step. She had something around her neck. I looked closer, and it was a little heart-shaped necklace with fake diamonds on it. 

Two days later, she had disappeared for a while and again showed up at the door when I was outside. This time, she was wearing a set of multicoloured beads. 

Who is doing this?? I think she might leave me. 

People Keep Offering Me Jobs

This phenomena has got me a little bewildered. I mean, historically I've not had much trouble finding work, but I usually put that to either good connections, or simply working hard. But in the last two weeks, I've been offered four jobs. Yes, four separate jobs. The first one is a job for the summer. I'm going to Barkerville, which is one of these historical re-creation towns, near Quesnel, which is sort of in the north, in BC. You know, the kind of town where everyone who works there dresses up in period costume. Anyway, apparently they hire an Anglican seminary student every summer to play the part of the Anglican priest who lived there in 1870. So I'll be running the church like it was run in 1870, which means mostly leading morning and evening prayer, although I'll have to preach as well. The rest of the time, I think I just be around, for the tourists to gawk at. I'll wear clerical clothes, which I think will mean a cassock, and a priest's collar (although I have to put a black line down the middle, to show that I'm not really ordained). I know the guy who had the job last year, and he told me about it, so I e-mailed the guy who is in charge - two e-mails later, I had the job.

The other three are even a weirder story. First, I was contacted about doing some part time security work at the school. Not much, just responding to alarms, making sure the library is empty when it's time to close, that sort of thing. While I was meeting about that job, I was offered a back-up sacristan position for the campus United church. This one will just be if the regular guy can't make it.

Reeling somewhat from the barrage of offers, I made my way up to class, only to be met by one of my classmates, asking if I wanted a job as a child and family worker at her church. I had to turn that one down, because I've got field placement on Sunday mornings.

So I'm up two jobs for the rest of the semester, and one for the summer. Not bad for not thinking about it at all!