so apparently there's a gas leak right outside my apartment. There were two folks from the energy company working on something outside, and they hit a line somehow. The whole apartment smelled nasty, but we were told to just close the windows and not have any open flames.
I guess one of my neighbors was freaked out, because somebody called the fire dept and they came by. Meanwhile I went outside and took my cat (on a leash) to escape the fumes [cont.]
the cat was already flipping out *before* the fire truck pulled up, and the big noise made everything 50x worse. So while it turns out that everything is fine with regards to the gas leak, I now have a large slice taken out of my palm by my extremely upset cat, who immediately hid under the bed once the smell cleared out and we came back inside. Sigh.
