TODAY:
5:30 am, I wake up.
I shower, make up a lunch to take with me to work, dress, hug and kiss T, write him a little love note and run out the door.
It was rainy and cold this morning, my umbrella kept blowing itself backwards and I absolutely hate when that happens. At the same time the wind brushes my face with droplets of water and I crinkle my nose up.
I kept jumping back because as I walked I had to hold my umbrella down wit both hands in front of my face, pointing it into the wind, and I couldn't see the people walking towards me.
I decided to stop right before the train stop and get myself a Cappuccino and then just wait for the train even though I was a little more than half way to work.
6:58 am, I get to work. 17 minutes early but I have to change into my scrubs still anyways.
I feed our office cats, Dumbledore and Hagrid. Then I feed the boarding cats, not that many and surprisingly none in hospitalization.
Run around and do all the other mundane kennel tasks, wash dishes, laundry, stock food, etc. Hold a cat as it gets blood taken, so on. Chit chat with co-workers, make coffee, cover reception as they take their breaks. No emergencies, one Euthanasia... Those are the worst. The woman was really calm though, which I secretly appreciate. It makes me feel better about the situation, too, when the owner has come to peace with the fact that their beloved is old and only suffering in this life. We all have to let go sometimes. It's hard. It's life.
1:00 pm. I take my break. Frozen burrito, raspberries and yogurt. One half hour to connect with a book (In Cold Blood in this case). I feel happy to be at work, it's a low stress day. It's raining out, everyone can feel the calm setting in as summer begins to turn to fall.
I am finishing up my break when the tech comes into the break room and tells me, "This is why you don't let your cats outside in Allston." I look as she holds an X-ray up to the light for me to see a shattered bone in a cats arm. I follow her to the back as she tells me how a girls roommate thought it was "ok" to let the cat outside, in a city no less. They lost him on Tuesday, found him Friday and finally brought him in to us today, Monday, because he wouldn't stop limping. This beautiful, young orange kitty with white paws is sitting in his cage we've made up for him, holding his broken arm up for us to see. There is an "unidentified wound" on the same arm but we expect it's because the bone went through the skin when it broke. The girls left him with us while we took the time to X-ray and examine their mistake. They did not come "right back" as they said they would. I suspect they will abandon him with us, and everyone I work with is on the same wavelength: if needed, we will take this cat as our own. It's how most of my coworkers ended up with all of their cats. The Dr. calls the girls, explains how it will need surgery to fix the break, they are to come in tomorrow and talk it over. The tech and I presume they may put the cat down if they don't have the money to fix this, but we won't let them.
This kind of shit just pisses me off. Don't let the fucking cat out. I told the tech, "My boyfriend, I'm sure, already presumes that I love the cat more than him, he would never dare do something like this."
Closing time comes and we get all our work done early as in the last hour we have an ultrasoundographer (sp?) coming in to look at a cat who won't eat or pee.
I like to get all the cats fed and their cages cleaned up and then I go back around and hold and snuggle all the sweet ones/ones who won't eat my face if I try and pet them. Right now Martin and Pretzel and my favorites and I also gave "Squeefy"/broken arm cat (what an awful name, huh?) extra love. He is so snuggly and I think he really appreciated the heavy duty pain medicine we gave him. We set his arm so he wouldn't hurt it more and drugged him up and he just lay there in my arms, crying. It's awful.
At 5, we were out of there. We close at five but have never gotten out right at 5. It was a nice feeling. I walked home in the rain, stopping for a hot chai and to shop in the bookstore. There is a nice bookshop in Coolidge Corner, it has new books and used books and lots of sale books. I love looking at books when it's raining out. I bought a few things, an old copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey, forgetting I had a copy already but had just given it to T as a gift. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass which I have been trying to get my hands on and read before I watch the movie. A book called Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun because anything about children in Europe during World War Two fascinates me, and another book about a genius 12 yr. old boy who lives on a ranch and is a mapmaker called The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen. There are really neat pictures of maps and drawing all through it, so. Duh.
I got home around six-ish? Snuggled my kitten baby, relaxed, zoned out, cleaned up some, went to buy groceries, made dinner, waited for T to get home, hugged my man and relaxed with him. Day off tomorrow. I made a really great playlist as well, you should check it out:
1. Fiery Crash, Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
2. Slow Show , The National, Boxer
3. House Is Not a Home, Field Music, Tones of Town
4. Casimir Pulaski Day, Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
5. A Sunday Smile, Beirut, The Flying Club Cup
6. Wet And Rusting, Menomena, Friend And Foe
7. Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car, Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog
8. Maybe You Can Owe Me , Architecture In Helsinki, In Case We Die (Advance)
9. This Heart's on Fire , Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary
10. Why?, Andrew Bird, The Swimming Hour
11. Brother, Annuals, Be He Me
12. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
13. Scenic world (Version), Beirut, Lon Gisland E.P.
14. Love's Lost Guarantee, Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures
15. Fools, The Dodos, Visiter
16. Apartment Story, The National, Boxer
17. Plasticities, Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
18. The Predatory Wasp of the Pali, Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
19. (Antichrist Television Blues), Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
20. The Penalty, Beirut, The Flying Club Cup
21. Swimmers, Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene
22. Lovesong Of The Buzzard, Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog
23. Two - Headed Boy, Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
24. Measuring Cups, Andrew Bird, Live at Lollapalooza 2006: Andrew Bird - Single
25. Ragged Wood, Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
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