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Holy shit there is way too much going on so far today.
First: I'll be leaving work for a couple of hours this afternoon. Shobhit gets off work at 1:30, he's coming to pick me up, we're going home and picking up Shanti and taking her to the vet.
There is something wrong with Shanti. For probably a month now, every few days she has been vomiting a very splattery, mostly liquid, dark brown vomit. We only figured out it was her and not Guru like a week ago, as we kept finding it on the carpet after it was done. She stopped eating for a day or two last week, which made things of even greater concern. She then seemed to start improving, acting more normal—and then she vomited the same way twice again this morning.
I actually emailed the vet on Thursday last week, but they only have operating hours Monday through Wednesday. It's been unclear how urgently we should take her to an urgent care vet, but we decided to wait and take her to her regular vet. I've done some googling on this and there seems to be multiple things that could cause this, but the prevailing notion is that something may be very wrong. Whatever it is, she is clearly not digesting properly, and this is an unprecedented issue. My best guess right now is that they'll need to do a blood draw for testing and we will have to hear back later as to what the issue is.
Best case scenario is that it's an easy diagnosis with known treatment. We're trying not to think too much about the obvious worst case scenario.
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On top of this, I got an email from Alexia that she won't make it to join Laney and me for
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes tonight as planned. Her dad was already taken to hospice care, and apparently now it's clear his passing is imminent. She's taking an emergency trip to San Antonio. So, it's just a lot of sad and/or worrying news today.
All the while, I've had an unusual amount of fires to put out at work this morning, although most of them involved individuals making a much bigger deal out of certain things than they really need to. It still adds to the general stress.
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Shall I catch up up quickly on the events of the weekend, then?
I already
posted about the very eventful Friday evening I had, thank god. So I don't have to contend with that now.
Saturday was the Braeburn Condos Double Feature with both Laney and Alexia: we watched
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (
fantastic) and
War for the Planet of the Apes (
actually better than I remembered). We all had a really good time watching them, and were all really looking forward to watching the new one tonight.
I told Alexia to take care of herself however she can.
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Yesterday I took myself to see my second SIFF movie of this year's festival, a dramedy called
Stress Positions that I had so much to say about, my review I wrote after returning did a rare thing of exceeding 1,200 words. I really enjoyed it, but could not really make sense of the ending.
Anyway, the screening was at 3:00, and I hoped to be in line by 2:15. I also needed to pick up a book at the library (I'm finally reading
Dune!), so Shobhit suggested we walk together—so much for my original intention of cycling, which is typically fastest. But, Shobhit wanted to get his steps in. We walked downtown on Pike, then down to the library, then down to Pioneer Square and up the waterfront from the ferry terminal to Pike Place Market. We wound up sharing a burrito at the Chipotle on 3rd and Pike before I finally caught a bus up 3rd to SIFF Cinema at the Uptown.
We saw a lot of progress on the
Waterfront Projects. Between that and the finally-completed Marion Street Pedestrian Bridge to the ferry terminal, I actually took enough photos for a
dedicated album on Flickr, 19 shots.
When I otherwise had time over the weekend, I did some further maintenance on my Flickr photos. I have now finished tagging all the photos for
Gabriel and Lea's wedding—a collection to which I added two more historic albums, because they have connected relevance. I still need to transfer photo captions from the email travelogue to the same photos on Flickr, though.
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