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napoleonherself) wrote2005-06-22 11:18 am
napoleonherself) wrote2005-06-22 11:18 am
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The fuzzy things are sad
It is hot. Very, very hot. The A/C is broken AGAIN and the maintenance guys won't answer mecha's calls -- he gets auto-shunted to voicemail. Meanwhile, Doyle is flopped over on his back with his legs sticking up looking dead, and our new special needs hamster1 Gràinne (pronounced GRAW-nya, the name of a fearsome pirate queen way back when) keeps flattening herself out on the bottom of her cage.
Also meanwhile, for the first time in weeks, I am having trouble breathing again. I'd hoped it was just an allergic reaction to some plant that was no longer blooming or whatever, but it appears that the humidity also has something to do with it, because without the A/C to dry out the apartment air, here I am again, taking a breath and then coughing because any but the very shallowest of breaths hurt my throat/upper chest. So I guess I officially have a recurring respiratory ailment. Bah.
We expect the maintenance guys to be all "dur you are moving soon why do we have to bother to fix the air conditioner", whenever they do finally start not purposefully ignoring us.
On the plus side, I have a nice cold Coke, and Doyle is cute. Gràinne is cute too, but mean.
Of course, she is a fearsome pirate queen.
1. She's a little dwarf hamster, supposedly not quite three months old. She was a classroom pet at a home/school for, basically, troubled girls, and it is suspected that one of the girls abused her2 because now she bites like nobody's business (I had my hand a couple inches above her head at one point and she actually leapt up to attack me -- almost got me, too). Either we took her or she got put down. So we took her. If we can eventually get her to not bite, great, but if not, we will simply let her live out her life without any handling except for if we need to put her in her little wheel module so we can clean the main cage. Mecha has gloves he can wear that she cannot bite through no matter how hard she tries.
2. For one thing, she named the poor creature Princess. I mean, come on.
Also meanwhile, for the first time in weeks, I am having trouble breathing again. I'd hoped it was just an allergic reaction to some plant that was no longer blooming or whatever, but it appears that the humidity also has something to do with it, because without the A/C to dry out the apartment air, here I am again, taking a breath and then coughing because any but the very shallowest of breaths hurt my throat/upper chest. So I guess I officially have a recurring respiratory ailment. Bah.
We expect the maintenance guys to be all "dur you are moving soon why do we have to bother to fix the air conditioner", whenever they do finally start not purposefully ignoring us.
On the plus side, I have a nice cold Coke, and Doyle is cute. Gràinne is cute too, but mean.
Of course, she is a fearsome pirate queen.
1. She's a little dwarf hamster, supposedly not quite three months old. She was a classroom pet at a home/school for, basically, troubled girls, and it is suspected that one of the girls abused her2 because now she bites like nobody's business (I had my hand a couple inches above her head at one point and she actually leapt up to attack me -- almost got me, too). Either we took her or she got put down. So we took her. If we can eventually get her to not bite, great, but if not, we will simply let her live out her life without any handling except for if we need to put her in her little wheel module so we can clean the main cage. Mecha has gloves he can wear that she cannot bite through no matter how hard she tries.
2. For one thing, she named the poor creature Princess. I mean, come on.