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My Life Thus Far
2016-08-27 06:07:40 (UTC)

An Evolutionary Fail

Batley's story has a happy ending! Snookums dropped him off at West Sound Wildlife Sanctuary and he was transported to a bat rehab facility in Olympia. After a couple weeks there they'll bring him home and release him on our street. I couldn't have dreamed up a happier ending for the little guy! I had no idea, but apparently if a bat ends up on the ground they can't fly. They need a jumping start off a perch. So he would have had to crawl 10ft across the driveway to reach the nearest tree, and then climb high enough to catch the wind. I'd call that an evolutionary fail. Flawed design on nature's part, but I guess most bats somehow avoid getting grounded. I'm just beyond thrilled he's going to get to live out the rest of his life, and not end up getting ran over by my neighbors. Which is exactly what almost happened. I had to stop them from coming up the driveway long enough to scoop him into a shoebox. I'm sure they thought I was crazy!

Work was typical. Definitely not a bad day by any means. Although at times I did find myself looking at the time, counting the hours/minutes until 5:30pm. A couple times my mind wandered to the still vacant Ops and Staffing position. Part of me is kind of wondering what's going on with that. Even though I've resigned myself to the fact that I've already been passed over once, I should expect it to happen again, I know I'm still going to be slightly hurt by it if it happens again. The slight will sting, I know it. Even if I don't really want the added responsibility, I can handle it, and I need to feel assured that everyone else sees that too. I guess I'm not as self-confident as I'd like to believe.

I was so proud of myself for getting to bed before 10pm, and yet somehow it's almost midnight. I'm physically incapable of getting to bed at a decent time. I open again tomorrow. It's the last Saturday before school starts, so it's going to be busy. I'd better start the arduous process of trying to fall asleep now...




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