Playtest

Had an interesting adventure taking our cat over to a friend’s house before we had a rental inspection this morning. We never actually applied for permission to have a pet, largely because we didn’t plan on having one. A lost cat walked into our house late one night last winter, and in the end it turned out that for whatever reason his owners didn’t want him anymore. Yes, my housemate and I were essentially adopted by a cat – I question his judgement. = )

Unfortunately its disrupted my writing today. I tend to write better in the mornings, so I’ve been trying to get into the office a bit earlier and getting stuck into the old word processor, which is a bit difficult when you have to play ‘cat courier’. Luckily I got a bit extra done yesterday morning, so I’m not too far behind finishing the draft of the first section of my ‘literature review’ chapter, which is sort of an overview of Dourish’s framework for embodied interaction. Its been a pretty boring thing to write, as its primary role is too identify the actual meat of the chapter, phenomenology and ecological psychology, so it’ll be good to move on.

Anyway, the key lesson I learned today is that taking a cat onto a bus results in fielding a lot of questions from old ladies. And a confused cat.