(*houston -> dc - fast day 19) south goes north

today was the big day for south. she got yanked out of cattropolis, stuffed in a car carrier, and driven to the airport. she was panting and looking unhappy, and then we noticed a foul smell. we were approaching the terminal when we realized she'd pooped in her carrier and i reached in to clean it up. this must have put her over some edge because she lost it and puked all over herself and me and everything in her carrier. this made getting her in through security a true joy. when i didn't take her out of the bag, the security people made me go through again. even when i told them that my cat was covered in puke, they didn't seem to care and told me to take her out and carry her through the detector. i guess it was the bag they wanted. they got it. this would have been a good day for a first class upgrade, but instead i was crammed in a row with an extremely obese man and a very large girl in the middle. my heart really went out to her, wedged between a girl and her vomitous mass and a guy way too big for one seat.

but we made it with no further incident, and south seems to be already back to her normal self.