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Heading home from Trader Joe's, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} purpleglitter spotted a snapping turtle in the opposite lane, cars zooming around it. She attempted to pull over immediately, however an ambulance behind us boomed its horn when she attempted to slow down and there really wasn't a curb at that point to pull onto. The ambulance had neither its sirens nor its flashing lights on and appeared content to travel along with the normal flow of traffic.About 150 feet away, there was a good bit of curb and purpleglitter pulled onto it. I ran over to see if the turtle was still okay. I was glad to see that someone had stopped in front of it, blocking traffic in that direction. She had attempted to move the turtle, but it had lunged at her and she backed off. The turtle was quite large and quite angry, it definitely didn't want to be messed with. I stood behind it while the other person stood in front to keep it distracted. I grabbed the turtle by its sides and picked it up. That really pissed it off. It flailed its short legs and lunged its head at me, attempted to reach my hands with its formidable beak.There was a small lake across the road, which I assume is where it came from as it had clearly recently been in water. I crossed over the guard rail and walked down the incline to the lake. I didn't want to simply set the turtle down, because I was worried it would use the opportunity to exact revenge on me. So, I squatted down by the edge of the lake and gently threw the turtle in. Even though the drop was a short one, I waited to see it swim off before I climbed back to the road. I had left my purse with person who had blocked traffic, and upon retrieving it I headed back toward purpleglitter's car. purpleglitter was walking towards me already and we met halfway, smiled, and went home. | |||||||||||||||||
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Yesterday was wonderful. I couldn't wait until evening, so I took the bus out to Burlington to meet up with purpleglitter for lunch during her break. If it weren't for the infrequentness of the buses, I would meet her for lunch more regularly.When she arrived home after work, purpleglitter brought me a dozen roses, one for each year we've been together. She took me out to Vinny T's for dinner, which was the perfect choice. Back at her house, we had champagne and chatted away the night. We had planned to watch Tipping the Velvet, but never got around to playing the movie.Quiet, romantic, happy. I couldn't have asked for a better anniversary.  | |||||||||||||||||
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I called the Lahey clinic in Arlington and they told me I need to call the clinic in Burlington for psychiatric care. They were nice enough to give me the number I called the main number for the clinic in Burlington, waited on hold for 5 minutes, then was told I needed to call the front desk of the psychiatric department. I called the psychiatric front desk and was told I needed to call the psychiatric scheduling desk. I called the scheduling desk and was told I couldn't get an appointment without getting a Lahey number and transferring to a primary care physician at Lahey. I needed to call the main number to do that. I called the main number and changed my primary care physician and got a Lahey number. I called the scheduling desk back, but the person was not there. I left a voice mail and am waiting for them to get back to me to schedule an appointment. Although I got the run around for quite sometime, I feel that in the last few days I've made a lot of progress on achieving a more sustainable existence. | |||||||||||||||||
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