I am of the exhaustion. Between trying to explain to a couple kids how to operate the boat*, all of the geography assignments, coming home to find kittens, but also that the dogs crapped all over the floor and the fridge/freezer were overheated, and then the horse going through the fence, and then bringing all of the laundry in, and then running around doing this and that errand, I'm just done. The horse has also apparently spent most of the day laying down, moping, not eating much. He's obviously sick, and a vet is being brought in tomorrow. Whatever adrenaline buzz he might have gotten from crashing through the fence didn't really help, but he didn't damage anything but the posts and his fragile not-quite-masculine pride, either, so that's good.
I think he was kicking at the mares again and got caught in the fence. The logical thing to do is to flip out and tear down that entire section of the fence, and continue to flip out and run around afterwards. Because, you know, you're a horse. That's what horses do. Girls just continued eating.
I've been ordered to stay up and make sure coyotes don't get him. The order to stand guard was accompanied by several dozen other rapid fire commands that I've mostly forgotten. She was just pacing around blabbing about how I need to do this or that tomorrow. As far as I'm aware it was all orders to do basic household tasks that I do anyway, because that's my job, basically, until I'm no longer the only member of the family without actual employment
And surprise! I have class tomorrow at 9am, and a test.
Also, bringing the laundry in I accidentally broke my mother's favorite antique clock, one she's kept for thirty years. I feel terrible. This might also be why I'm being punished with hearing the list of chores.
* It isn't easy explaining to kids how to do something you don't know how to do properly yourself, and you're just terrible at explaining things, when all outside help has been taken from you. It is even more difficult to operate an overloaded undersized sailboat under the prior conditions. Average-sized kids at worst, but I'm pretty big too. These two were unwilling to split up, and so were the two women in my class, who ended up sailing without any students. We had an equal number of kids and college students, plus an intern, but somehow we wound up with the intern running off with two kids, two students going off together with no kids, one student (me) with two kids, one student who is practically a second intern sailing with one kid who might as well sign up for the class, and one student abandoned on the shore because we completely forgot about him. He kidnapped an intern and stole another boat, though, so whatevs. Our instructor in the nice big boat, meanwhile, somehow caused the rest of our classmates to vanish into thin air (or water) and came up to the dock with nothing but kids. Maybe he offloaded the class onto the dock when nobody was looking, or maybe I was mistaken to think they actually got on the boat in the first place.
I have learned much today. More than I taught, definitely.
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