Wednesday, May 30, 2007

A day in the life of a human

May 29, 2007

6:00 Rise and shower
6:20 Check work voice mail and crank out some work email
7:00 Round one cleaning in cat facility. Clean "big cats" room, put big cats back, and let Leo/Wings/Perci/Ben out. Clean kitten cages and hand-feed little grey kitten
7:25 Leave for vet in Ithaca (23 miles)
8:15 Drop off two cats for spay/neuter. Leave vet and head home (23 miles)
8:45 Stop at neighbors to cat-sit
9:00 Crank out some more email and phone calls for work.
9:35 Jump in truck and drive to Owego to lawyer for estate issues (18 miles)
10:00 Sit down with lawyer
10:20 Hear yelling outside in hallway. Lawyer goes to check. Bat flying back and forth in hallway.
10:25 Catch bat, check with office staff to make sure no one had any contact with it. Release bat outside. Sit back down with lawyer. Drive home (18 miles)
11:15 Back to work. Weekly phone meeting with supervisor by phone. While on work phone with boss, take home phone message from vet. Male cat is FIV positive. They have already neutered/vaccinated him, and he could be a lost pet (he's friendly, and remember Angel!) so euthanasia is not a moral/legal option anyway.
12:15 Off phone with supervisor. Quickly call vet and confirm I will be keeping Lawrence the FIV cat.
12:20 Back to work
2ish Take a break to walk Sadie, Round two cleaning in cat facility. Leo et al. back in clean runs, and the "kids" come out to play. Clean their cages.
2:30 Back to work
4:30 Jump in truck to pick up cats at vet and hit post office for work mail (23 miles)
5:50 Home (23 miles). While pulling in drive, notice orange cat standing in my parking space. Another cat! Quietly get out, but he runs away. Pop a can of cat food and put in grass by bushes where he disappeared. Put the two spay/neuter cats back in cages.
6:10 Back to work.
6:15 Mark is home. He says he'll find something to eat because I need to keep working tonight to make up for my running around during the day today (and I haven't started any dinner).
9:00 Done for the night! I've sure had enough of talking on the phone.
9:15 Out to cat facility. Feed kitten. Put dry food out on a plate outside for the abandoned cat.
9:30 Make two last work calls to people on the west coast who hopefully are home from work by now. No dice. Leave messages. Check work voice mail.
11:30 One last trip to the cat facility. Clean downstairs (feral) cat cages. Put "kids" back in their cages upstairs, sweep floors, feed kitten, let big guys out of their room, turn down radio, scoop boxes, turn off lights, say goodnight!
12:45 Read for a bit and fall asleep on the couch. Damn it, I hate it when I do that!


Today, no running around to interrupt work. Happy day! I think I'll start early.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Phew! I'm exhausted just reading this!
Alice

ancodia said...

ilu! Get some rest. :-) I can completely empathise! Not to be unreasonably optimistic, but if Lawrence's former owner got him vaccinated for FIV, he would test positive, I have been told. Some of us working with our local rescue program have raised that issue to Animal Services to see if they would not automatically put all positive cats down, but they will not budge on that rule. So, not to sound like Polyanna, but maybe if he was a pet he was FIV-vaccinated? I don't know how to tell, though.