It dawns on me that I have not posted the medium post thingy I wrote about mastodon and pineapples yet
it is tradition, so here goes
On the plus side, it's proven that I don't ever have to worry about the cat running off outdoors, because it is clear that the outdoors is a Scary Horrifying Place, which needs to be escaped from at maximum speed / by piteously throwing oneself at the door and yowling.
the cat was already flipping out *before* the fire truck pulled up, and the big noise made everything 50x worse. So while it turns out that everything is fine with regards to the gas leak, I now have a large slice taken out of my palm by my extremely upset cat, who immediately hid under the bed once the smell cleared out and we came back inside. Sigh.
so apparently there's a gas leak right outside my apartment. There were two folks from the energy company working on something outside, and they hit a line somehow. The whole apartment smelled nasty, but we were told to just close the windows and not have any open flames.
I guess one of my neighbors was freaked out, because somebody called the fire dept and they came by. Meanwhile I went outside and took my cat (on a leash) to escape the fumes [cont.]
butch cyborg with a glittery soul | they/them
I'm a physics grad student and I vent a lot about academia crap. But I also talk about fun stuff, like tabletop rpgs and sci fi, and the cool parts of my job!
My cat is way more popular than I am, online and off, but I don't begrudge that. :)