Boodle Speaks

We've been feeding Satai kitten food on the side to help get her weight back up, and she loves it, but trying to keep it away from Ishii is both frustrating and hilarious. Satai is a skittish eater to begin with so she gets spooked when we do things like shut her in the room with the extra food. But if we leave the door open Ishii does this ridiculous "stealth" thing where she tries to sneak up near Satai, but Ishii has gotten even chunkier since we switched to mixing some high calorie food in with their lower calorie kibble, so it's just a Lawd She's Comin' situation. When I herd her away she squawks like she's being murdered!

We booked our flights for our July trip to Berlin last night - we are flying through CDG on the way there because no other options made sense, but it's an almost four hour layover so fingers crossed that's enough time to navigate that hellscape. Flying back we go through JFK, which is fine because worst case scenario we are back in the US and can figure out a way home to Michigan if something goes wrong. The only bit of good news I found about connecting in CDG is that you don't have to recheck luggage if the trip is all under one ticket. Yay I guess. Yes these are Neroon World Problems but it helps me to articulate them.

I have done basically no prep for the trip we are leaving on tomorrow and I've had a hellish work schedule this week. It's causing me so much stress. Usually I can step away from work to put in laundry, do a couple cleaning tasks, etc. but I'm in meetings (sometimes double booked) from 8:30 to 4 with zero breaks and I still have to tie up a number of loose ends before I can end my day. Sometimes I deeply resent how unforgiving my job can be in terms of recognizing people need downtime to do actual work, but some of this is my fault for normal proactively blocking off my calendar. Our work culture is so messed up in the way that they give us a lot of PTO but make actually taking it very hard because no one wants to just wait until you are back, they all have to have meetings up until you leave and people see nothing wrong taking your last free half hour or even double and triple booking you and expecting you to "make it work". Which does nothing because I'm not going to remember shit next week.