Reading for comprehensive exams has had, thus far, two main components: reading the books (or the parts of them that are the most relevant for this purpose) and typing up notes on them. Granted, I have most of the books checked out from the library, and only a handful have ever been recalled since I started this process. However, I am not willing to run the risk of having to give up the book when I need to review it. Notes, I figure, addresses that problem.
But, that isn’t the only problem.
I spend most days moving between two chairs in my house–the “reading” chair and the “note taking” chair, the latter of which is my desk chair. I have found, however, that this is a particularly desirable location from the perspective of the cat population in this house.
First, there was a “line” to use the desk chair:
Then, I found different cats, all disturbed from their naps, whenever I pulled the desk chair out from under the desk:
It got to the point that whenever I got out of the chair, for however brief a period, I’d find a cat sitting in it when I returned. So, I decided to block access to the desk chair by piling file folders in it. Then, I got this response:
It looks like I’ll need to find a new strategy. Or buy more desk chairs.
Medievalist in the Making 
Ha ha, I have the same problem, but with three small dogs 🙂
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It seems to me that the cats only want to sit in the chairs when I am around. When I am away, when I return they are leaving the chairs empty, and can be found in other places–most popular being windowsills or beds. More chairs is not a solution. I have many chairs which go ignored until I begin sitting on them. My use of a chair increases the desirability of the chair to the cats.
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I believe I am dealing with the same phenomenon.
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I laughed so hard at this because we struggle with the same thing! I have given up even the idea of trying to sit in my desk chair without shooing a cat out of it first. 😀
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We call it the ‘butt-crack’. As in: you just got up, and your butt is warm, and warmth is crack for cats. So; your butt crack will always be filled by a feline 🙂
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Ha! That’s hilarious!
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A familiar problem. I have a decoy chair next to my desk now. It mostly works, but sometimes I find myself sitting in the decoy chair instead of my proper desk chair.
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That’s hilarious! We have tried to attract the cats’ attention to boxes that we leave around the office (they love boxes), but they are, apparently, not attractive enough. Desk chair is always a preferable alternative.
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Our feline overlords are too smart and contrary for us. If we want them to go in boxes or to use particular chairs they will find a way not to do so that inconveniences us more than just letting them have their way in the first place would have done.
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Ah, the attraction of a recently butt-warmed chair! And I LOVE that throw, by the way.
Yay, a comment out of the past! I’m soooo far behind 🙂
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