Today has been a mixed lot

[valis2]

This morning on the way to work, my sister and I were on a five lane road and noticed a mama duck and her ducklings crossing the street. (Don't worry--happy ending, I swear.) The curb was too high for the ducklings, and mama got up into the grass and the ducklings were all stuck on the curb, feebly trying to jump their way up the steep concrete.

We weren't in the far right lane, so my sister waited, hoping to get over so I could jump out and help. People kept driving at full speed in the right-hand lane, in between us and the ducklings. One car drove by so close to the curb that I was terrified. Finally, my sister managed to get over in the right lane and turn on her hazard lights, and I hopped out. There was only one duckling left on the curb at this point, and it tried to run away from me further down the curb, but to no avail; I scooped it up, light and downy and peeping and struggling, and put it on the grass to reunite with its quackifying mama.

I was in an agony of terror the whole time, though. Ducklings on the street is something I just can't even bear to think about, and even now I'm trying not to because I know I'll burst into tears. Even though nothing happened and all the ducklings went with their mama, I was still freaked out. I'm strange that way.

So anyway, usually my sister and I have lunch together, but this week is the last week for one of the nurses (she's retiring), so we went out with her and another nurse. I've barely talked to either of them before, so by the end of the meal I was thinking the usual--you know, I'm talking too much, and isn't this a really long story about nothing and I should really shut up now. And the nurse who's retiring got up and said goodbye and turned to me and said, "Valis, you are delightful." Which completely took me by surprise and was a rather wonderful thing.

On the way home from work I got the hiccups.

Defriended by someone and then friended by a Russian LJ. I think this is my first or second journal-in-another-language friending. I will not be friending, because I do not read Russian. Sorry.

Another day in the scintillating Valisverse. lol.

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

The poor little thing was so cute! And it probably would have found its way down to the next entrance, but still, I saved it a few steps. heh.

(And thank you, you're so sweet!)