Great news: our dear pet cat does not have cancer!
Frequent readers would know that our kitten has been dealing with a stomach issue, leading him to not eat or drink much, and therefore losing weight relatively massively. We took him to the doctor a few weeks back, and found a critically inflamed intestinal tract. As a precaution, a biopsy was taken to check for potential lymphoma. Results came back early last week, and it confirmed it’s but only a bad inflammation, nothing more serious. As of this writing, the beloved cat is well on the mend and back to his old cheery self.
The past week is one of much anxiety for different reason. I had ordered a custom MacBook Pro to replace both my old MacBook Pro and iMac desktop - one laptop to rule them all, if you will (hello, Tolkien fans). The laptop arrived fortuitously on Thursday, which I was lucky enough to be home to receive as it was a day I was designated to not physically go to campus. Of course, with a fresh new piece of tech to entice me, I couldn’t wait until I was properly off work hours to get started with the data migration, so I started to multitask.
Let me be the umpteenth person to say: multitasking does not work. The brand new laptop distracted me from work all the way into Friday, because there was a snag with transferring my huge music collection (I don’t do streaming). As someone who practices the buddhist art of going with the flow of life and patiently waiting for events to play out, when reality presents me with an opportunity to put it into action, I utterly failed. The “unfinished” state of the new MacBook Pro was such a distraction that I had trouble going to sleep until the data transfer was finally completed on Saturday.
Indeed it can be tough sometimes to have patience, even when you know a particular process will take a bit of time. I am the type of person who would constantly check shipping updates, agonizing over each detail: I dropped the package off at the post office an hour ago - why hasn’t the tracking reflect this? Oh my god, what if they lost the package?! I get quite antsy when various things are in progress, and won’t find peace until those things are brought to a conclusion and taken care of. But that’s a false promise, isn’t it? Life continues on and will continue to bring more things and challenges.
As always, it’s a work in progress.
That’s a good question…