Bye Bye Kitty

I was waiting for the train this morning, just sitting on a bench while reading a book when I saw something peripherally creeping up on me. It's only after I jumped up that I realized it was a cat, meowing piteously. I tried to sit down again, but the cat made like it was going to jump into my lap. I jumped up again and I thought it would go away, but it only moseyed up to me, purring and trying to rub up against my legs. It then jumped up on the bench and took my spot, peering soulfully into my eyes with its golden eyes. I tried to move away but the cat followed me up and down the track, while I was unsuccessfully trying to shake his tail (ba-dum chhh). Thankfully, someone else showed up and the cat started to follow them. Poor kitty seemed so lonely, but it didn't have a collar...I am also pretty allergic to cats (although I like them) and I wasn't going to touch a stray cat who had been God knows where.

Now I'm at work, supposed to be reading this book called The Checklist Manifesto written by a surgeon and so far it's about surgeries that had some sort of complication thrown in, where the entire medical team managed to keep the patient alive, despite some condition someone missed, or some glaring mistake on the part of the team (ps, if you are ever stabbed, make sure someone tells the doctor what you were stabbed with...some guy was stabbed with a bayonet at a Halloween party and the doctors didn't know and thought it was a normal,superficial knife wound. They didn't figure out that the stab wound hit the aorta, until the patient started bleeding out and coding). The book is supposed to be about how making checklists will help you with complicated tasks (something I need a lot of help with right now) but the author is still in the "I'm proving how important this is" phase, so I haven't gotten to the useful part yet. It's probably the first non-fiction book I've read in a long time...I mean besides textbooks which I have to read.

I didn't eat anything today so far, but! I did learn how to make a cassarole. It was tuna with peppers and onions mixed in, with biscuits on top. It was good, but I'm sick of eating all that tuna, all week long. However, it's easier to get than chicken. And besides, I'm too frightened to cook chicken. I'm obviously too young and inexperienced to know what to do with raw chicken; like, the only person I can trust to cook chicken is my mom. Also, think of the GERMSS. I don't even think we have bleach in my apartment...

Yesterday's breaky: buttered toast and tea
Dinner: tuna cassarole with rice krispy treats for dessert
Midnight snack: buttered toast and tea