The Panda-fly Effect

I woke up later than I thought I was going to... I rushed around trying to make up for the lost time and missed out on having a shower to feel fresh and clean so that I could eat breakie and fix things so that my wonderfluff feline would be happy while everyone was away... my clothes felt all wet and sticky from the smothering humidity, which only added to the ickiness I felt at not having had a shower... I was away from my hubby (who broke his toe recently and has me all worried and such)... I was away from my stepgirls... I was away from my wonderfluff feline... all so that I could do some forced volunteering at a very nice art gallery run by very nice people - I normally quite enjoy being there, just not today... I kept messing up my alphabeticals... had to read and re-read the projects that I was given to work on because I kept messing up and making more work for myself... I couldn't type today to save my lief... I had an arguement with someone who thought Patrick Swayze was the main character in the movie White Noise when I know for a fact that this isn't so... I've had to repeat and repeat myself over and over and over and over so that someone actually hears my voice... and then I have to say it one more time so that they understand me... I smell like skunkweed... my personal headphones for the computer are all tangly-twistered into my hubby's set which turned my anger button from MILDLY-ANNOYED to URGE-TO-KILL-RISING... the hot dogs that we had for supper are making me feel like I am going to have an alien from Alien rip out of my belly button... and I think I'd like to crawl into a dark sunless corner to be alone for a while and cry my heart out through my skull... but I know I can't since as soon as I even try it, my ever-loving wonderfluff cat will become my shadow and try to cheer me up... and failing, he'll stalk off and I'll feel even more upset and sad... *sigh*... and a link that was sent to me by a good friend didn't work and I really really really wanted to see Suzaku, Seiryuu, Byakko, and Genbu playing poker!!! So I am a living bundle of emotions... I should just give up for the day... but then I see something that brings me a ray of happiness...

"Panda Leads Chinese City on Pursuit

BEIJING (AP) - A wild panda that strayed into a southwestern Chinese city over the weekend scaled a fence, hopped from roof to roof, swam in a river and napped in a tree before it was caught, a news agency reported. The panda led residents of Dujiangyan in Sichuan province on a chase after wandering into the town and spending the day there, the Xinhua News Agency said.

The saga began Saturday when three men drinking beer spotted a figure 'nimbly' climbing over a fence surrounding a housing estate, Xinhua said. The men and residents gave chase, thinking it was a thief trying to break in, but changed tactics when they realized it was a panda. Some people blocked entrances to the housing estate, while others searched for the animal and found it calmly sitting on the roof of a bungalow, Xinhua said. Efforts to reach the animal failed as it began running from roof to roof before hopping off 20 minutes later, climbing another gate and disappearing.

'The panda was amazingly agile and totally different from those at zoos,' Xinhua quoted one woman as saying. Police found the panda again a few hours later after receiving a report that it was taking a dip at a nearby river. It later hunkered down for the night in a tree. Xinhua said the animal was tranquilized the next morning.

Li Desen, a zoologist at the province's Wolong giant panda research center, said the panda suffers from liver and kidney disease and hurt her paws during her escapade. The animal hasn't eaten anything, although the center has prepared fresh bamboo leaves and glucose for her, Li said. The panda is now under 24-hour intensive care..."

Somehow it makes me feel better to know that I might be part of a butterfly effect with a panda... she's having a bad day but will hopefully get better *fingers crossed*... I am having a bad day but will hopefully get better *more fingers crosssed*... now I am going to take a few breaths, try to untangle the headphones for playing computer games, then cheat at Sim City 4... life will improve. -_-