Long Thursday, Busy Friday, and A Nice Little Weekend...
Lots to catch up on and so much to do today. Yesterday I had all day hospital orientation and training which was suspiciously familiar to my Meriter Hospital orientation in the morning and then 100% identical in the afternoon (turns out the J-CO accreditation videos are international standards), so I got to sit through the exact same 4 hours (no hyperbole... four whole hours) of hazmat and fire safety and bloodborne pathogens videos that I saw last year. Somehow I managed to stay awake and then walked home and actually timed it (just under 20 minutes, door-to-door) and arrived sweating slightly less than the time before, so there may be hope for acclimation to this ridiculous humidity. As soon as I got home I started the first big cleanup of my apartment to get ready for my first guests in my new place. Oh, and for those of you wondering, I still haven't done laundry, I just went to Carrefour and bought more socks and white t-shirts (gets me to the weekend when I have a shot at getting it all done in one shot.)
So around 8:00 Sarah brought over her two kittens, litter box, food and mini-bed and set them up in the bathroom in the open space under my sink. They're really tiny and pretty cute and fortunately not loud at all... and they cuddled with me on the couch while I watched The DaVinci Code (a solid purchase at 75 cents.) Ended up getting to sleep early after depositing the cats on their bed in the bathroom... and this morning discovered why a lot of people don't like cats: they smell absolutely awful. To be fair, it's the litter box which smells miserable but it was so overpowering I didn't really make a distinction.
After the initial shock wore off it turned out to be a pretty easy cleanup of the litter box... there's something oddly satisfying about using the little shovel with slats to sift out clumps... and once I got the window open and the fan going and took a shower the place didn't smell half bad. Everyone at work suggested I get incense so that's now on the shopping list, but tonight I'm headed downtown to bar-hop on the Bund (the stereotypical image of China with a ton of people on a street between walls of neon signs everywhere) with Larry, my drinking buddy from Seattle, WA. I'm taking more pictures after being scolded by the parents and will figure out how to post them as soon as possible.
So around 8:00 Sarah brought over her two kittens, litter box, food and mini-bed and set them up in the bathroom in the open space under my sink. They're really tiny and pretty cute and fortunately not loud at all... and they cuddled with me on the couch while I watched The DaVinci Code (a solid purchase at 75 cents.) Ended up getting to sleep early after depositing the cats on their bed in the bathroom... and this morning discovered why a lot of people don't like cats: they smell absolutely awful. To be fair, it's the litter box which smells miserable but it was so overpowering I didn't really make a distinction.
After the initial shock wore off it turned out to be a pretty easy cleanup of the litter box... there's something oddly satisfying about using the little shovel with slats to sift out clumps... and once I got the window open and the fan going and took a shower the place didn't smell half bad. Everyone at work suggested I get incense so that's now on the shopping list, but tonight I'm headed downtown to bar-hop on the Bund (the stereotypical image of China with a ton of people on a street between walls of neon signs everywhere) with Larry, my drinking buddy from Seattle, WA. I'm taking more pictures after being scolded by the parents and will figure out how to post them as soon as possible.
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