My arms are slashed erratically and a drop
of blood swells and trembles from one of the cuts before trickling down
my wrist. The curtain pole has been half-ripped from the wall, the
curtains spilling gracelessly to the floor as the light fitting sways
back and forth, shooting expressionist shadows up the walls of the
shard-strewn room. No, not the latest episode of Lucy’s Guide to Self-Harm for the Busy Girl,
but the scene after forty minutes of trying to put my cat in her
travelling box before taking her to the vet. The really annoying thing
is that once we get to the vet’s she is as good as gold, batting her
eyelashes at the nice Australian vet and rolling over to have her tummy
tickled. She’s so much like me she makes me ashamed.
I made a
twit of myself, excitedly engaging the vet in amusing anecdotes about
the cuteness of my cat instead of just saying, “She has a lump.” He
looked at me and my cat warily and I gradually concluded that the
erotic possibilities of a vet’s surgery are zero (partly due to the
large and graphic poster of rabbit parasites on the wall).
We
have to do this all over again on Friday so she can have surgery and I
can hand over all the money I earned posing for life-drawing classes in
the town hall – money I was planning on spending in Paris in October.
It’s not the only money I’ve got but I liked the aptness of spending
money earned as an artist’s muse in the cafes of Montmartre.
I
felt a bit down this afternoon, probably because I’m under-occupied at
the moment and there’s only so much ‘1950s housewife’ stuff I can do
without going crazy. So I went to bed with the cat and alternated
between fingering my pussy in a desultory fashion and dozing fitfully,
while she licked her bottom then slept with her nose tucked under her
paw (because you can’t be too careful). I’m going to the doctor
tomorrow to talk about my meds, which I’ve been taking in a slightly
negligent fashion since I was twelve. To misquote Woody Allen: ‘I’m
going to give them one more year, then I’m going to Lourdes’.
No
sex to write about today, so instead here’s an update on my friend
Lynda, who regular readers will recall is a famous slut. I’ll let her
take up the story. “I met a gorgeous young man in St James’s Park,
sitting on a bench eating his sandwiches. He was all suited and plush
and very Foreign Office. I was being pursued by a rather menacing
pelican at the time and he rescued me by chucking his crusts at it. So
I sat down next to him and gave him a peck on the cheek to say thank
you and he shared his last sandwich with me. Anyway, one thing led to
another and we ended up having a knee-trembler behind one of the
buildings up by the store yard – you know, across the road from Horse
Guards Parade. Then he had to go back to work but he walked me as far
as Admiralty Arch and he kept my knickers stuffed in his pocket. I
think he said his name was Nick. He had a nice cock.”
I am speechless.

