Journal of a Sabbatical

July 3, 1996

 




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The air is heavy with the coming thunderstorms this afternoon. A few kids are swimming in my condo complex's pool. A mockingbird is imitatiting a robin outside my office window. It's nearly 6:00Pm as I write this. What have I accomplished today?

The cat shelter was particularly filthy today and with the humidity it smelled bad. I cleaned fewer cages than usual, got clawed by more of the cats than usual, and didn't have time to pet Jaguar today. Moe and Doc, two of the kittens, were growling at each other so fiercely we all wondered if we should separate them although they are siblings and are being adopted together. When I took Moe out of the cage to clean it, Suzie growled at him. He was so frightened he dug into my shoulder with claws of all four feet. I bled. He shivered. Suzie is one of the mean cats, but she's not that frightening. Black Beauty has already gone to his adoptive home (yay!). Black Beauty's mom got into an altercation with Suzie too. Come to think of it, it seemed everybody was growling at everybody else today. Including the people.