green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

and, that was pretty much it. we have several owls, mostly barred but one great horned; an assortment of smaller birds, mostly flickers, pigeons, gulls, and crows; and we just got in a bald eagle that has a broken clavicle (I think?), whose prognosis is very iffy because of the injury. basically they can't do much for it; either it'll heal right, or it won't, all the vets can do is wait and see. :/

and then (the actual dead animal handling part) our rehabber gave us volunteers a brief training/orientation on how they splint breaks in bird wings and legs, what they look for when birds are brought in, etc. she demonstrated with a seagull and crowned kinglet, both previously deceased. they use coathangers to splint larger birds' legs, and paper clips for smaller ones!

so I took a seasonal project to clean the boots for Raccoon Nursery 1. there's three pairs of rubber boots on posts outside RN1, because raccoon contagion can be LITERALLY DEADLY so wearing your own shoes when the nurseries are in use is Discouraged. the boots were pretty clean already, though. I scrubbed and disinfected them anyway, and washed out a couple of spiders.

yesterday's volunteering was mostly dull. our rehabber has been assigning us jobs, so I cleaned outside enclosures--one flicker, who was FREAKING OUT OMG and I therefore tried to keep it as brief as possible, and one owl who beak-clicked at me but seemed otherwise unconcerned about my presence, so I did a bit more in there. still, both put together took less than an hour.

we still don't have proper running water--there's a little trickle in the sinks and bathtub, but nothing in the toilet tank. good thing I bought a couple of gallon water jugs while I was out. :P and now of course I'm INCREDIBLY THIRSTY. [f/x: psychological effect]

so now I get to eat a hard boiled egg or two and then trundle off to the stores for cat fud and bottled water, because ???? aauuuugggghhhh I don't want to be doing any of this I want to GO BACK TO SLEEP and make this day over faster. ;________;

and now the water main into our apartment complex is broken. :D :D :D :D :D maybe this is related to the one-minute power outage earlier? idk but :D :D :D

I am so fucking done with today already

thought I was making chai but instead I made peppermint tea. which isn't bad, but I was expecting caffeine. but I don't want to pour out perfectly good tea. hmph.

oh hey sleep time. gnight awrroo. <3

I knew monks don't get stealth, and I'm leveling one anyway, but DAMMIT I WANT STEALTH /whiiiiiiine/

me: okay I finally rolled a monk! I'm excited for this! so when does my monk get stealth??
WoW: never
me: ...... *deletes character*

anyway oh yeah tea

on the downside, it means there were Strange People In My Space when I got home, so I didn't get to destress properly, and they will probably be back Sometime Indeterminately Soonish, so I feel like I still can't destress properly, so while I have some stuff to write up about volunteering today it's gonna get written up and posted lllllllater. :|

had to go to the office to say "oh hey my dining room light fixture is leaking," but the response was prompt and gratifying, seemed to do a very good job of diagnosing the problem, and should be fixed today. so yay for that!