I should really put some more effort into "building" and getting to know my new persona for handing Cat Stress and related issues.

I've finally got a hazy identity starting to form for her. Her name is "Brill" -- as in the type of fish, a weak pun on the fact she was inspired by encountering a beautiful sweet dog named "Oyster" -- and like Oyster, she's an Aussie shepherd.

Personality so far is somewhere between Applejack, Buffy Summers, and Shreve (that saint of a rancher who raised the late, much missed Charlie the Coyote of dailycoyote.net).

She's slightly punky, brusque, and ruthless in the nicest damn "OK honey that's nice but you still gotta get up and do it" way. She's already been in my head, though not quite in the control booth, a couple of times during recent Cat Issues -- she was especially helpful while we were rounding the kids up for Snippage.

I look forward to knowing her. Maybe I'll be in a position to introduce her someday. She'd probably enjoy getting to run around in someone's RPG world and boss people around for their own good. Arf arf arf arf arf arf arf get the fuck back in that pen stupid sheep. XD