7th panel is the sweetest, but I bet he enjoyed the party.
Sitting alone in the dark drinking cocoa sounds good, but it gets a bit dull.

No offense, but I disagree with every clause of Hannah’s post.

@Hannah, haven’t you ever been in one of those moods where you just want peace and quiet and to be left alone for you mind to settle down like a pond that’s had rocked dropped into it every second of every day because you work in customer service?

I bet he didn’t enjoy the party, and neither did anyone else. Not really.

@David It would be glorious to not have to worry constantly about being called in to work, yes.

I’m sure someone will argue with me, but I say employment is not at all a necessary good. Work, in the sense of something to do, may have its benefits, but working for a douchebag really does not build character.

By ‘rocked’ I mean ‘rocks’, of course. I wish I could install software on my computer that prevents me from posting instantaneously, therefore forcing me to (a) reconsider what I’m saying and (b) notice how bad my spelling is.

I was going to write about douchebags at work, but my girlfriend was reading over my shoulder and assisted me in function (a).

i’m with you, hannah. i fight for quiet time, but when i get it (maybe an hour a month), it’s never quite as sweet as i wantecd it to be.

Great, great. Cat’s back home. Can we now get back to free-standing brilliant comics uncluttered by the specter on continuity? Thanks

Reading this storyline piecemeal is effing excruciating, but I went back through the whole thing in one go and it was actually very good.

Best storyline since The Spirit of Ironic T-Shirts.

I am about to go on a vacation and all my old friends are going to be there and there will be parties and people all over, and this is exactly how I feel about it.

@David: I totally get those moods, all the time in fact. That’s why I have a very limited social circle.

But, and like rocketbride said, quiet time is never quite as sweet as I imagined, and after a while I just want to be back with people and noise.

However annoying the people in question might be, at least they’re more interesting than me.

I freaking hate when things like this happen!

Wow. This posted just days after I watched the Star Trek episode where Worf finds himself unstuck in the multi-universe continuum and jumping from one possible reality to another. I could completely identify with his apprehension over which universes would have surprise parties in them and which wouldn’t.

Aw. Poor cat.