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When I woke up this morning and fed the guinea pigs (of which I have four females, all named after Fullmetal Alchemist characters), I discovered Noah (the little white one) sitting in the corner of the cage, nearly motionless. I picked her up, and her eyes were bleary, she was barely able to move, and she felt extremely emaciated. I'm not sure what happened to her, but my theory is that the others must be bullying her into not eating. I check on them at least four or so times daily and I'd never noticed anything, but I guess it must have been going on for a while, So I put her in isolation in a cage in my room with food and water in hopes that she'd recover.

After my bird class today (I'll get to that in a second), I was afraid I'd come home and find her dead, but rather on the contrary, she seems to be doing considerably better. She's eaten a bunch and had a lot to drink, and provided there isn't anything physically wrong with her, I think she'll recover okay. I was so worried about her, too--I don't know how I could have missed this. :( It must have only been going on the last week or two because I've spent more time at my Dad's in the last few weeks.

The bird class went extremely well! There was a great turnout, and everyone seemed really interested in becoming rehabbers. ♥ The speeches were all great, it was so nice to see my rehabber friends and mentors again, and I got to see some new types of bird up close. I'm enthused to get birds again, though I still have three months before I can do that. I got to see a beautiful cedar waxwing with a spine injury (the poor thing!), a meadowlark with a broken wing, and two education owls: Oliver the screech owl (so cute!) and Chester the great-horned owl. I took short videos of Oliver, Chester, and the waxwing, but the meadowlark was too freaked out to videotape. I was tempted to take the meadowlark home and care for it, but I'm afraid I wouldn't have enough time to take proper care of it. ;_;

Now I'm tiiiiired. My new mattress is heavenly, and I'm sleepy. It's kind of too early to go to sleep, though. I need to watch Naruto Shippuden episode 4, too.

As I was drifting off to sleep like two nights ago, I suddenly had a brilliant flash of inspiration for how I want to end this Pokémon 'fic I've been wanting to write/somewhat obsessing on for practically forever (3+ years?). The only problem is, the ending is completely messed-up. Like, it's this sweet, sad, kind of desperate story, and I wanted it to end sadly but not...in a messed-up way, and then I had this flash. It makes so much sense, it would make its point effectively, and it would pack a major emotional wallop for the 'fic to go out on. But it's...really messed-up. Very morbid. I have no other way to end it that I can think of, but I'm still a little hesitant for it to go out with such a sick bang. I don't know, if anyone's interested I'll post a summary, but otherwise I suppose I'll just debate back and forth between myself. I don't want the sickness of the main character's final action to invalidate the her feelings, which is what the whole 'fic is about, but I think I could pull it off in such a way that it would deepen the moral implications of the story. I'm not sure, though. >.>;

Hmmm. I guess that's all for now.