Running out of time

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

I had just gotten back from my dog's neurologist appointment, which was...4 hrs long and stressful😭 Planned on eating a nice lunch and then getting some work done while there was still time in the day.

Only to watch a myna with a fat grub in it's beak land by my back door and then deliberately drop said grub and stare at it for a moment before flying off with a little "bwee" sounding coo.

And then I watched the grub move.

And then the horror dawned on me that it was not a grub.

it was this fucking thing:

I had a very ugly reaction that I will not describe in detail but fuck me 😭 I did not need this rn.

because I knew. I KNEW no rehabber here would take a myna hatchling. And I was right. Was basically told "congrats, it's urs" or "let nature take its course". It's such a strong, spirited little guy, if he's gonna die, he's gonna die warm with a full belly. Got a heatlamp and the appropriate food.

Let me be frank, I have no hope for this guy.

I have hand reared chicks before, but never this young. I hated doing it back then and I never wanna do it again. but this guy...He is like..1-5 days old.

SO, my life for the next week is gonna be waking up at 5:30am to feed this guy every 30 minutes until midnight. All day, every day. Assuming (biiig assumption) he doesn't just die overnight.

But he IS eating and pooping very well so far...so maybe he's gonna force me to live like this for a while after all 🫩 I give it a 50/50 chance, very generously. There's still a matter of diseases n' shit. He looks and acts healthy but who fuckin' knows what's going on under the hood.

So, I have 2 plausible theories abt this

usually, when a parent kicks a chick out, it's because the chick is obviously very unwell and tending to it further is a waste of resources.

This chick, however, is very strong and determined AND had apparently been fed prior to abandonment. So--not unwell and not a waste of resources.

my first plausible theory is that these are first time parents who are very stressed by the monsoons and LOUD construction taking place across the street. Filicide can occur under such conditions.

survived the night :V

Ate a fuckton of breakfast.

So it's time to

get weighed, idiot!

9 gram.

When I weigh him tomorrow, I wil be able to get a clearer picture about whether or not he is on a trajectory of healthy development or if his growth is stalling and he is failing to thrive.

He can look good and strong, but if he can't absorb the requiered nutrient load and grow, then that could very well be the end for him.

I've been watching him around the clock and his behaviors seem good so far as my eyes can tell me...but more importantly, pls look at his tiny feetie claws