#Agent Thoth's #Personal Log: Day 1047

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Agent Thoth discusses more of the trials and tribulations associated with living with hominids. Incidentally, if you've missed Agent Thoth's earlier entries, you can find them here: Thoth's Journal

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Agent Thoth's Personal Log

Day One-Thousand-Forty-Seven:

My hominid-servant, who is well-meaning but often rather dim, seems to be under the impression that my attempts to train her as to the correct priority of tasks upon rising from her sleeping platform are requests for affection. Even when I stand right next to my food bowl and vocalize at the top of my voice, she still misinterprets, deliberately or otherwise, my demands. She almost always does respond to my coaching in some positive manner, but rarely in the appropriate way, by filling my food bowl.

Sometimes, I believe she does understand what I am requesting, because she will inform me that there is already food in my bowl. I have tried explaining to her that it does not matter if there is already food in my bowl, that she is still required to fill my bowl with more, preferably different and more enticing, food upon her rising. But this seems to be a concept that escapes her.

However, I am still unsure whether this is confusion on her part is a genuine belief that she did not understand me correctly, or a purposeful refusal to perform her duties properly. Because her responses to these reminders from me generally provoke over-the-top displays of affection from her, both in verbal and physical form. She will speak to me, praise me, caress me, and even pick me up at times, which I do not particularly enjoy but tolerate due to our difference in height and a recognition of the lumbar weakness inherent in any bipedal physical structure that does not also include a tail.

The end result of all this is that I am left with inconclusive evidence as to her motivation for evading her feeding duties. Which is only exacerbated by the fact that she always does, eventually, attend to my food bowl, just not on the schedule that I prefer. At this point, I can only reiterate my observation about the irrationality that hominids are plagued by.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between stupidity and laziness. ;-) You may have noticed that Agent Thoth has a new look. I hope you like his new picture as much as I do, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, either way. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments. ;-) Happy reading, everyone!