Cal.e.'s Korner

Here's what you do

When you don't find the rainbow's end

This timeHere's where you go

When it looks like the rain won't end

Don't cry

There's always tomorrow

Where you can have a second chance

And after tomorrow

All that you have to remember

Here's what you doWhen you think nobody cares

For youLook in my eyesAnd see there's an answer there

It's trueWe'll find tomorrowA place for usI know because

Time only knowsHow long forever's gonna last

And we don't even need to ask 

And each day that follows, and the one after that, and the next day, and the next…Cause you only have nine lives to give!

C.: Now that we’re all back from the Island of the Evil Robot Cats,

I can watch my favorite soap opera, NINE LIVES TO GIVE. Since y’all haven’t been watching it, I’ll catch everyone up since it was cancelled and renewed at one million viewers’ request. I made 999,999 phone calls to get this show back on the air.

Today, I’ll introduce y’all to the protagonist, Jo.

She was a ne’er-do-well who dropped out of high school nine weeks before she was going to graduate as the salutatorian of her senior class in obedience school, because her boyfriend wanted to get married and start a family.

Jo’s partner died in a turf war between cartels when he went out to get milk for their nine kittens because Jo couldn’t produce enough milk to feed all their kittens. So, Jo decided she must find a good job to support her brood. She took the GED to finish obedience school and passed easily. She then went to  the College of the Cat Skills to earn her undergraduate degree. She did well, so she was accepted into Kittie Law School at the same college.

However, when Jo started to practice law, she thought of her late partner and decided she needed to make more of a difference in other cat’s lives, so she went to the academy for police cats.

Jo passed that academy and began her career as a police cat, but still wasn’t satisfied that she was making a big enough difference in other cats’ lives. She thought of the vet who had valiantly tried to save Bo, her late partner, but failed because he couldn’t speak Bo’s language, Catonese.  The vet couldn’t understand that Bo was complaining about pain in his right hind foot. He died of a melanoma, not a gunshot wound. The vet didn’t open his toes and look between them, so he didn’t see the tumor.

 Since Jo thought that a vet who could speak Catonese would be valuable, so she went to vet school and passed it easily, but still thought that she wasn’t making a big enough difference in her fellow cats’ lives. As she was contemplating her life choices, the paramedics brought her a cat that had been hit by a car.

The paramedics’ valiant efforts in the field had saved the cat’s life, and that made Jo’s mind up for her, so she went to the Fire Academy to become a paramedic.

That was the end of episode one. I can barely wait for episode two, which I’ll verbalize tomorrow right here on Cal.E’s Korner.