The Paper Chase (but not the 1973 movie)

The longer I'm in this editing business, the more I collect paper with little purple marks all over it. And I've been contemplating what to do with all the paper with the little purple marks. Thus, I poll:

[Poll #681905]

Remembering Yofi

Thanks to dianora2 for pointing out an odd case of copyright infringement.

ETA: She took down the icon and apologized. All is well.

My default userpic is of my cat, Yofi. I got Yofi in 1980, when I was 9. She was my 9th birthday gift from my parents, and she was the kitten of a litter from a cat belonging to a friend of my sister. I had Yofi from the summer of 1980, when Yofi was 8 weeks old, until the spring of 2001, when she died a week after her 21st birthday.

She was an odd little cat. She was mostly Siamese, we think, though we were never sure. Her coloring (white with odd black splotches) reminded my family of a Holstein cow, and she was very small, so we sometimes referred to her as a semi-stein (or, when I was being odd, a hemi-semi-demistein). She'd climb into the oddest places, such as the top of the sukkah frame my parents had built onto their back porch in 1989. She'd climb up there and wander around on the slats for the schach and then meow piteously because she couldn't figure out how to get back down. Since she was skittish, however, she didn't like me to try to pick her up to help her back down. So I would climb up to try to get her down, and she'd shimmy down one of the uprights right after I got up on the chair/ladder/whatever to try to help her down.

Her two favorite places to sleep were in fresh-from-the-dryer laundry and on whatever black clothing happened to be available (though she had a distinct fondness for my black wool cloak). Maximum shedding potential was always my theory.

My parents took care of Yofi after I graduated high school, went to Israel and then college, and then got married. I didn't feel it was right to move a geriatric cat around so much, and since she was used to being an indoor-outdoor cat (much like indoor-outdoor carpeting, I used to joke), I didn't think it was fair to coop her up in an apartment all day.

I think of Yofi regularly, and she is still dear to me, which is why she is the image I use in my default user pic.

I was therefore quite distressed to learn that another LJ user was using my picture as a default pic. My user pic is cropped from a scan of a photo I took about 15 years ago; it and a couple of other pictures of Yofi are linked off my homepage at http://www.asknomi.com/yofipic.html. And therefore this other LJ user's unauthorized use of my photo is a copyright violation.

I left a comment in her journal asking that she cease using my photo, and I hope she will do so.