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Nov. 6th, 2007 06:14 pmOK, so a few things.
-I had an adventure over the weekend. So, I went to a soccer game on Saturday. Strasbourg vs. Paris. Strasbourg lost, but it was a good game. I got home around 11:30pm, and nobody else was there and awake. Before I even touch the stairs, my host family's cat comes up to me, meows once, and trots into the main part of the house. I follow her, thinking at best she wants scratchies (which I can give her) or milk (no damn way), and at worst she's pulling a Lassie.
Nope.
She was showing off the bat she'd brought into the house. Real, live bat. Tiny thing: only about 7 inches long at the wingtips.
So after a few initial WTF moments, I decide what to do. I grab Miss Tubbybutt (dayum, that cat's heavy!) and haul her into the main part of the house. I close the door to the sunroom where the bat is and open the door to the outside. Sure enough, just like a bug in a kid's ear, the bat took less than a minute to find the way out. Glad I didn't have to touch it. If I'd gotten scratched by it and not the cat, I'd have to go for rabies shots, most likely, and I don't care that Louis Pasteur worked here and there's a university named after him, rabies shots are still painful as hell.
So. Yes. That. The bat was kind of cute. Just, not in the house, please.
The mystery was, the cat flap was locked at the time. Nobody could figure it out, but we realized the answer yesterday. The cat flap has four settings: open, locked, cat can go in but not out, and cat can go out but not in. Instead of being locked all the way, someone had set it to "cat can go in but not out." This wasn't a problem, since the cat was in. However, it turns out that she snuck out when one of the other exchange students came in. Cue a few hours of hunting later, and there's a cat and a bat in the house.
In conclusion: cats suck.
-School is kicking my ass. It really is. I could have gone to Reading where there's a dedicated writing program, but noooooo...
-I'm hating how early it gets dark here. It sucks.
-( Heroes 2.07 spoilers )
-I had an adventure over the weekend. So, I went to a soccer game on Saturday. Strasbourg vs. Paris. Strasbourg lost, but it was a good game. I got home around 11:30pm, and nobody else was there and awake. Before I even touch the stairs, my host family's cat comes up to me, meows once, and trots into the main part of the house. I follow her, thinking at best she wants scratchies (which I can give her) or milk (no damn way), and at worst she's pulling a Lassie.
Nope.
She was showing off the bat she'd brought into the house. Real, live bat. Tiny thing: only about 7 inches long at the wingtips.
So after a few initial WTF moments, I decide what to do. I grab Miss Tubbybutt (dayum, that cat's heavy!) and haul her into the main part of the house. I close the door to the sunroom where the bat is and open the door to the outside. Sure enough, just like a bug in a kid's ear, the bat took less than a minute to find the way out. Glad I didn't have to touch it. If I'd gotten scratched by it and not the cat, I'd have to go for rabies shots, most likely, and I don't care that Louis Pasteur worked here and there's a university named after him, rabies shots are still painful as hell.
So. Yes. That. The bat was kind of cute. Just, not in the house, please.
The mystery was, the cat flap was locked at the time. Nobody could figure it out, but we realized the answer yesterday. The cat flap has four settings: open, locked, cat can go in but not out, and cat can go out but not in. Instead of being locked all the way, someone had set it to "cat can go in but not out." This wasn't a problem, since the cat was in. However, it turns out that she snuck out when one of the other exchange students came in. Cue a few hours of hunting later, and there's a cat and a bat in the house.
In conclusion: cats suck.
-School is kicking my ass. It really is. I could have gone to Reading where there's a dedicated writing program, but noooooo...
-I'm hating how early it gets dark here. It sucks.
-( Heroes 2.07 spoilers )