“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves…It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.”
– René Crevel
it’s just so hot… I had to stop writing because I could feel my brain starting to pound while I had a fan pointed directly at me the whole time.
I’ll try to finish the fic later today and then tomorrow more ko-fi fic fills 🙂
Client communication, the ability to listen to clients and get them to understand you, is a vital skill for a vet. It doesn’t matter how clever or compassionate you are if you can’t get an animal’s owner to understand what’s going on and work with you to treat their animal.
Some people are just bad listeners. Some people just don’t have English as their first language, which can lead to interesting situations with charades or trying to find alternative words someone can understand (like asking a proper old lady whether her cat is still taking a shit each day because she doesn’t know the words for faeces or poop), but sometimes you get a genuine gem.
This client in particular was a little challenge to communicate with because of limited English, but we both tried to meet each other in the middle. And over the week or so we managed to get her little cat from ‘very very sick’ to ‘finally back to normal’.
She was extremely relieved to have her little cat well again, to the extent that she brought in a thank you card to the clinic, that she’d had her neighbor write because, again, English wasn’t her first language and she didn’t want to be wrong.
But it was her words that stuck with me. She spoke about how her cat was all better and would sleep on her pillow next to her head again, but she didn’t know the word for ‘purring’. She said,
Instead of being a gorilla, Winston and the other test subjects were intended to be the first humans to live in space, and were genetically modified to handle interstellar side effects.
Human Winston’s appearance is based off his dad, Harold, and given some Asian features to reflect Lucheng Interstellar – the Chinese space company which oversaw the Horizon Lunar Colony.
Rather than thrash his arms during Primal Rage, Winston just starts smacking the enemy team with his Tesla Cannon.
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