I just can't understand why it matters to her at her age to have "a boyfriend" when she doesn't like people at all. Really, just embrace the cat-lady status and become totally animal focused. It's not a bad way to be. If you have a man in your life and you don't actually enjoy having him around, and he creates nothing but stress for you, it's kinder to let him go off and have a relationship with someone who actually wants him around.
On the other hand if she truly wants a relationship with the Baker she has to accept him warts and all. He's rather like an animal in a way. His actions towards her are a bit cringing and fearful, knowing as he does that she might snap at him. She wouldn't expect a dog to change its ways - she doesn't! - so why does she expect him to? If it's OK for her various nervous animals to wee all over the place and attack each other, and it's OK for her to be obnoxious because she's so sensitive and deaf and also overworked, then it's OK for him to be a slob and often caught up in his own issues.
The elephant article sits unpleasantly with me not because I don't think she should be revealing this (actually fairly widely-known) issue - on the contrary. But her snobbery and disdain for humans in general means that she doesn't come up with anything bar "oh the poor elephants". She notes, disainfully, that the workers who "look after" the elephants have government-supplied smartphones. She doesn't dig into why these men are doing this work, and what they would do if they did not have this work. Solutions, Liz. Analyse.
In other news, I agree, she does appear to be earning her half a mill in the past few weeks. Knocking the articles out.