Can't take my eyes off you...

Somewhere between me organizing the shelving unit and starting school, Roscoe found a favorite spot on top of the microwave, next to my red tea basket. I suppose at one moment he looked down, bent over all the way, and noticed some sparkly numbers on the microwave.

When I noticed him noticing the numbers, he was so mesmotized (mesmerized+hypnotized) that I could not gain his attention...for FOUR minutes. (I know this because I was also watching the numbers while trying to get his attention. Also, it is an exceptionally long time for a bird, especially for Roscoe.) Even when I took five pictures, I could not distract him. I thought he was having some kind of attack. I thought the change of the numbers would frighten him...and yet he gazed.

"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!" --Edgar Allen Poe


-吴碧芙