Spring

Have difficulty concentrating today. Blame absentmindedness on weather--spend much of day in office staring at building across street--see several interesting sights: what look like and am 85% positive are pot plants; extremely large carpeted cat play structure--attempt to estimate square foot cost of floor space, but Stop looking when grown man, naked except for boxer shorts--is alarmingly skinny, face scrunched up like prune, has long, hairy arms, and is hanging on window sash looking exactly like a monkey in the zoo. Notice that he has Batman curtains, and when he reappears in window, again hanging on sash, he is gnawing on large turkey bone. Am for some reason petrified. Tell self with a shudder that will Never look at building again. This absolutely untrue as not longer than a minute later have eyes fixed on window with Batman curtains--ape man is no longer in evidence. Become concerned and interested. Get up out of chair and lean near window. Hear, Fritz, do you know... Gasp extremely dramatically and loudly. It is only Cindy Stevens, who also gasps, asking, What is it?! Tell her that she surprised me. Cindy Stevens says she knows all about that--the other day she was carrying her cat from the bedroom into the kitchen (don't ask why) and when she got into the kitchen she wasn't expecting to see a man there--her husband--so she screamed and threw the cat. The cat got in a good scratch before being flung to the floor. Cindy Stevens shows me the scratch. Tell her she should watch out for cat scratch fever, sometimes deadly. She says she will. Feel so warmly toward Cindy Stevens that want to tell her about the building across the street, but become shy and talk instead about dreaded Board of Governors dinner coming up in a month.