Halls of the Dark Muse

I do not know much about my neighbors which is how I personally prefer things. Yes I like to live in my little isolated void, but I know that she has like four or five cats, and one of them appears to be not much older than Strega, my ,kitten so they sometimes play together.

Today I went out in the front yard to see my kitty and as I was holding him my neighbor was just pulling out of the driveway and saw me, and was telling me how cute my cat was, which is fine, whatever, I prefer to just be left to my own business, but she is a cat person so alright.

So I nod and grin hoping she will just be on her way now but she wants to keep talking, and then she asks me what my cats name was so I tell her, and because she is in her car, down the driveway, and I am standing close to the front door of my house, and so we are shouting back and forth to each other, and the thought of trying to move closer did not even enter into my mind, so it took a while for her to get the name right.

And then when she finally gets it, she says to me, you know your cat is a boy right, (because the word Strega, is actually the feminine form of the word) which was irksome to me, it I want to name my boy cat Susy Jane, that is my own dang business.

Then she asked me if it meant anything in Spanish and when I told her it was Witch in Italian, well I think that was a bit too much for her, I think she was wireded out about it.