Felix

This is how I enjoy my day off. I re-certify in CPR in the morning, which takes up the whole morning. Ridiculous, but mandatory, no way around it. So I suck it up, do what I have been trained to do for twenty years while they talk at me like a child. Complicated by the fact that it's done differently in the Operating Room, with anesthesia right there. Still, it Must Be Done. And I got in a good walk, the only way there, train - then a brisk trek. The shuttle routes on campus are hegiras. That overlook on the valley warned me of the awful air we have to breathe. Red alert day here. Happens in winter quite often. Breathing mud would be safer.

Then I go and get furred past recognition. All the cats were sneezing and coughing. Much mucus. Most of them wanted to play when I took them out to the meeting rooms, so I wound up on the floor having the ties on my apron tugged, and throwing little catnip mice for them. I also did a bit of dog wrangling, and soothing.

My favorite old guy cat is still there, still wants me to take him home. Still can't.