Floater's diary

Floater said:
Ate some peas, timed my bills and rent, and sent a request for my old patient info in the central hospital of J.
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🤞 It's definitely worth a try.
 
Didn't sleep the whole night. Making rice, egg and scallions for breakfast. Contemplating if it's worth it to call the health center at 8am to see if they have any cancellation appointments.

Edit gotta remember this meal during struggle times, I just cracked an egg into my rice pot halfway through cooking/steaming and things really don't get easier than this
 
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Snoozed a bit between 08-12. Called the health center and got an appt on 13.7 which is considerably better than 4.8.

Had a two-egg omelette with potatoes, corn, cheese, and scallions
 
Had some mango and cried and am now making beluga lentil stew with cherry tomatoes and bell pepper that were on the brink of perishing. Sure, it will heat up my apartment a bit but I need the safety and familiarity of my go-to-grub.
 
Great news: the portable AC just got delivered! I'll have time to figure it out and set it up in time to keep Hegel comfy once he gets here.

Took out peas to thaw and will have them and overnight oats in a few hours, dishwasher is running, I'm looking online for cat carriers and cooling bricks for Hegel... Feeling very relieved that I got an earlier appointment to the doctor so now I can focus on feeling as good and balanced as I can, a day at a time, Hegel will surely keep me busy as we learn to know each other, and things will eventually get figured out even though now it all seems like too much to handle.
 
Yay for airconditioning! I all but melted at work today and I'm very glad you and Hegel won't have to deal with the heat anymore. Temperature-wise I may have been a chinchilla in a previous life...
 
Llama said:
Yay for airconditioning! I all but melted at work today and I'm very glad you and Hegel won't have to deal with the heat anymore. Temperature-wise I may have been a chinchilla in a previous life...
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I may be one in this life, I wear flipflops in October 😅 I'm sorry that your workplace is too hot to work comfortably. It suuuckss.

Had peas and overnight oats, and am watching Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. It looks very pretty outside, I'll go for a short walk after this episode :)
 
Spaghetti with Marmite, scallions and my tiny little leftover cheese.

I only took a 10-min walk but it was nice. The air is warm, 25c, even at midnight, but the grass is dewy and cool. I was thinking about Nera and how she loved to roll in the grass. It must have felt very comfy and cooling. The jasmines are in flower. I might take another walk to smell them before I go to sleep. Jasmines remind me of Nera.

Birds are no longer singing at night. Gradually the growth season, heat and noise will die out to give way to the solemnity of fall and the peaceful isolation of winter. Right now it feels very important to me that there is rest and a chance to stop fighting ahead. I've been stretching myself thin the whole year. I did my best. Some outcomes were good, some bad, some are to be defined later on.
 
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FUCK THIS, I'M DONE. Hegel escaped from a window last night and simply can't be alive anymore.

I'm starting to think that god hates me
 
That's horrible. Any chance the lady you were getting him from is lying because someone else was willing to give her (more) money for him? Not the kindest thought, but better for Hegel at least.
 
Llama said:
That's horrible. Any chance the lady you were getting him from is lying because someone else was willing to give her (more) money for him? Not the kindest thought, but better for Hegel at least.
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I don't think so. I think she would have tried to haggle in that case. She let Hegel out of the cage unsupervised and chinchillas are famed escape artists. In this weather he was probably seeking to cool himself outside. With cats, birds of prey, dewy grass, and heat during the day plus the fact there's nothing safe for him to eat in Finnish nature, he can't be alive.
 
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I'm so sorry to hear that :grouphug:
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I decided to not give up on hope after all and did what I could by asking for advice about how to catch an escaped chilla and telling those tips to the current owner, and posting about it in the lost animals group of Hegel's current town, and giving the current owner a list of vets and animal rescue orgs in the area. Her neighbor had seen Hegel at 1AM last night so he was alive then still. During the day he has probably sought out some dark and cool nook to sleep in but time is running out as there's a heat wave... God damn...
 
OK I've done what I can for now: given instructions, looking for numbers to call, staying on alert. But the fact is that I'm a 5-hour drive from there. I need to prepare for the possibility that nothing can be done.

A member of the Finnish chinchilla association who's a breeder messaged me and said that if the worst has happened and Hegel won't be found, she has been following my posts for a while and talked to another person who I asked for instructions when I was planning to get Hegel, and that when I'm ready she has a special needs chinchilla girl who might be a good fit for me. She's a fur chewer, so can't be used for breeding. Fur chewing is a reaction to stress and some chinchillas are more prone to it than others. It's not dangerous to the chinchilla but it looks raggedy and of course the underlying stress has to be dealt with. The breeder said that she thinks I could keep the sad girl comfortable and provide a stress-free environment for her. So at least there's that.
 
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