The Goings On

Friday:

While talking to a friend about his posted YouTube videos and trying to figure out if his recently-ex-ladyfriend-ex-friend was a pole dancer or not (she's not), Kelly comes running into the room and asks if I can 'hear that'. I couldn't. The next thing I know, she runs out into the apartment complex (she's in pajamas) and comes back 5 minutes later to get a chair and demand my help.

I trek outside cursing under my breath (every day I become more like my father) about what the crap she was doing and how I still wasn't certain about the pole dancer, only to hear the loudest kitten meows I've ever heard. Kelly points to the awning covering the door to the building next door. "There's a kitten up there" she says, "And I can't reach it."

So there I was at 7:00pm on Friday night, attempting to get a cat down off a roof. I wasn't tall enough to reach the kitten, it was just a little too high, but I was eventually able to raise a plastic tray of cat food high enough for the cat to start eating it. Then, as I slowly moved it away, she fell into it and I was able to lower her to the ground. All this while various Chinese families walked by and wondered if the laowais were breaking into apartments.

Kelly named her Zoë and has been bathing, feeding and generally loving her back to health. I've been letting her play with my slippers from time to time but have been generally useless in the cat-caring process. It's pretty amazing how much Kelly loves animals. Since Friday, she's gone out and bought special shampoo, taken the little squeaker to the vet, gotten her medicine and a cat-carrier and is working out the details for her adoption from the local SPCA type organization. It's unfortunate not everyone in China loves animals this much.

Saturday:

After the events of Friday, I stuck around the apartment and prepared for the Cranium game that was going to take place. In first semester, there were some hard-core Cranium players that ventured to our place every month or so. This was the first game that's taken place since all the buddies have returned home and it just wasn't the same without them. Kyle wasn't there to explain all the rules, so we had to make some of them up. Hana and Jody weren't there to get distracted and flip through magazines and Jason (well, he's still in Shanghai but we already had too many players) wasn't there to tag-team with Kyle and win the game in 10 minutes flat.

Sunday:

Spent all afternoon planning the summer trip. I'm considering buying out the last week of my contract to gain some more travel time.