Jul 20, 2004 12:27
Yeah...I got back Sunday night. Quite late. Here's a brief run-down of my trip: I left on Friday the 2nd. The car was acting up so we left late, but it turned out ok. We drove for quite a while until we hit North Dakota, saw some Dinosaur stuff, then went to Montana. We went to Little Big Horn Battle field, and then to Glacier National Park, which was nice. It was snowing there. Weird. We kept going west until we got to Washington, where we saw Mt. St. Helens. That was interesting as well. Some poor hermit man died, buried alive with all of his cats, when the volcano erupted back in the 80's. Also, my birthday was the day we saw the volcano. Momma got me some magnets and Dadoo got me a book on photography. So...then we went south, through Oregon, to California to see the Pacific coast and the Redwoods. I liked the forest there. Then we headed back east through some neat Lava Beds and a couple of states until we got to Wyoming. We saw the Grand Tetons and went into Yellowstone for two days. We saw some interesting Hot Springs and there were wild animals just roaming around, walking through traffic. It was nice, because I got to see a buffalo up close. They're kinda cute. Next we headed east again and stopped at Mount Rushmore. On the way, I was not excited, but once I got there I was really impressed. Don't ask me why it never occured to me that someone actually had to manually carve that mountain...I guess I thought they had a machine do it or something. The point is, it was really impressive. Next we went to an actual paleontology site in South Dakota. Some guy started to build a subdivision, but instead discovered a fossilized sink hole with, so far, 50 Mammoth skeletons and numerous other creatures. Now it belongs to the scietific community and they're still excavating, and you can watch. It was neat, too. After that, we pretty much just drove home. Overall, everything was nice. There was minimal bickering, and my ass hurt almost more than you can imagine from sitting for 2.5 weeks, but it was really a nice trip. I can give more details to anyone who cares, and we have close to 500 photographs.
After the trip, however, has not been so great. My first full day back was terrible. Sunday night, there was this stray injured cat on my front porch, but she was obviously domesticated and was quarentined in my spare bathroom with no trouble at all. Since she needed medical attention, and Freya has both not had immunizations yet and was sneezing awfully, I took them both to the vet on Monday. The stray, which I'm keeping but have not named yet, will be fine in a week. She has no terrible diseases but she does have a nasty infection and must remain away from the others until her treatment is over, at which point she can join the group safely. Freya, on the other hand, did not receive her immunizations. This is because immunizations can KILL A CAT WITH LEUKEMIA. Yeah. Since neither had been tested, and both needed to be immunized against it, the vet tested them both...I had no idea. Freya was the only one, prior to the stray, that hadn't been tested, found negative, and vaccinated. Apparently, her mother must have given it to her. I have to go tell the woman I got her from that her cats, their litters, and any others involved have to be tested now. So...Freya is currently on antibiotics, as the sneezing is a secondary infection related to the leukemia, and the only hope is that, after one month of isolation, she will have developed immunity and test negative, thus living happy and healthy. Sometimes, cats catch the leukemia virus and develop immunity. Sometimes it happens immediatly and you never know they had/have it, sometimes it takes about a month, which is why she gets retested in a month. The isolation is so that there's no chance she gives the virus to the other cats, which is sad because she loves them. Otherwise, if she doesn't develop immunity...she will live in a state similar to AIDS and if that doesn't kill her, she will eventually develop cancer and die. She will never live more than 3 years, and probably no longer than just one year. Freya is my baby. I was raising her like Aslan. I guess I still am...but my god. Aslan gets killed by some asshole who doesn't know how to drive on a dirt road and is too callous to even tell us so we could maybe help Aslan in time, and now Freya's more than likely going to suffer before I have to have her killed. This is part of why I decided never to have human children.
In other news...I'm going to go see if I can get a job at Shimi's, then I don't know what else I'll do. Probably...not much. Attempt to keep Freya away from the others until the stray doesn't have to be separate, cry, try not to run into certain people who just went on terminal leave because they hate me and want me dead, wonder why stupid shit happens to me, realize it's because when people fuck up it comes back to them worse than they gave it out, reorganize my media things, wonder how I'll pay for college and if I'll change majors...Oh. This little rant reminds me of Part One of the Katherine Is 20 And Reflecting On Life thing.
Here is a general and public plea: People don't like me. I am fully aware of this. I do a lot of things that are...not good. I am better at it now, but the past is riddled with horrors. So...Here's the plea: Everyone who reads this, because I know there are those of you out there who hate me and read this anyway...I need everyone to completely and totally rail on me. Friends, tell me what I've done wrong and what I can improve on. If you're afraid I'll get mad at you, which is something that I've been told before, then do it anonymously. I'm being a complete lamer and making some stupid public plea rather than approaching people personally, so you don't have to feel lame for posting anonymously. [peer pressure] If you're really my friend, you'll do it. [/peer pressure] Those of you that hate me, take this oppurtunity to really bitch me out. Say all those things you always wanted to tell me off with. Come on. You know you want to. And if you're afraid of repercussions as well, that's why lj allows anonymous comments. I am so serious folks. Let me have it. I swear, publicly, upon penalty of severe pain and social outcast, that I will not hold any of this against any of you. It'll be good for me. Tough love and all. So...get the word out, and make sure everyone you know that has something to say about me says it to me.
The end. Time to work.