I'm sure I'm contorting my arms and hands into all manner of unhealthy positions as I try to reach around the cat on my lap and use the keyboard. Right now it's Kiri, who at least sits still. Kacey likes to sprawl across the keyboard and grabs my hand as I'm trying to type. Cricket gets in my face, literally, and starts licking--not much way to type when that's going on. Lily drapes herself over my shoulders. Fortunately, they do this one at a time--at least when I'm sitting at the computer. When I'm sitting on the sofa, all bets are off and I occasionally find myself buried beneath a rugby-style scrum of cats, getting several colors of fur up my nose.

And stand-offish Angelus, interestingly enough, has been putting in some serious lap time. The really strange thing is that he seems to like to curl up in my lap and snooze when I'm watching the TV show "Angel"--featuring the character I named him after.