I don't know how it is, but my cat always seems to know when my activities mean a longer time away than the usual hours of a working day. For at least a week, if not longer, before leaving for Paris, Nualla laid on my clothes, my bag and the laundry bag, as if to say, "Noes! Don't be going to Paris..."

She even went so far as to grab ahold of the wheels on my suitcase.

Fooled her though; that's not the suitcase I took with me.