Irritating attempts to pigeonhole you aside, it sounds like a lovely sojourn. For many years I had no cats. I've always enjoyed their company, I just did not live in a situation where it seemed a good idea to have one. I might have actually continued to not have cats indefinitely our of habit but for getting one of them (*jerkface knows I'm typing on the subject of his Satanic majesty*) as a sort of relationship bonus. I did go promptly pick out one of my own thereafter (*her infernal fatness is somewhere around here*). Anyway, not sure why I am waxing on about the subject of the little bastards; enjoy the capital, if not the Capitol.