My Cattery-cum-Office Fantasy

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My Cattery-cum-Office Fantasy

February 12th 2008 21:00

Photo by Joaquim Alves Gaspar. Used in accordance with the terms of Wikimedia Commons’ GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

I was having one difficult week at work. One of my workmates was on leave and had missed his flight back from Macau, which meant he would be coming into work the following Monday instead of this Wednesday. My manager wanted me to cover for him for another three days and boy, by Friday, was I frustrated and simply wanted to go home. That was when I looked up from my cubicle and went into a fantasy world. I looked at my photo of Butterscotch that I always keep with me and whispered to him, ‘You would be so easy to work with.’ I imagined instead of people, all my colleagues were cats. I could see cats of all shapes, sizes and colours in each cubicle, happily typing away on their computers. I thought about bitchiness and office politics I have encountered during my thirteen years of working in finance and thought if animals ran the world, the world would be a better fantasy. How Orwellian.

Which reminds me, when I was 16, my friend Sharon was a vegetarian and a huge fan of the Smiths, Oscar Wilde and George Orwell. She used to quote Morrissey’s lyrics and would scribble ‘MEAT IS MURDER’ all over her books. It was Sharon who introduced me to Animal Farm, Orwell’s famous novel about animals taking over a farm. Sharon, like me, was eccentric, had very strong views and was considered a subversive. It was a case of two misfits finding each other. Sadly, we lost touched when I went to university. I still wonder what ever happened to her.

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