Seven days. That's it. After all this time, it's come down to the last seven days. I'm going to read one letter from home every day. On another note, Roxy - an older baboon who is in with the small babies because she was so low ranked in every other troop - went after me today. Twice. With the slow deliberation that she gos after the other babies. Normally she is so sweet with anyone who is in the hok. This is the first troop in which she's been one of the alpha females and can groom with us, the dominant troop members, whenever she wants. So she normally spends all of her time during the day grooming with us or chastising the other babies for whatever reason. Recently, however she's been held inside all day recovering from surgery; there was a mass removed from her chest. Now that she's back in the hoks, she seems more domineering, even with us. Luckily, this time I was watching her as she did it. I pulled my arm away from her when she was trying to groom it and she opened her mouth to bite me. She was looking right in my eyes and I could see that she meant to make a point. I had to give her what she wanted or else. She did it twice! And when I yelled at her to stop, she moved away from me, whining. I can't help but take it personal because as far as I know, she's never gone after anyone else like that. It was really weird. I'm trying not to stress about it but it put me in a bad mood. And I have another shift in there later. We'll see how it goes. By the way, I finally washed my hair! LOL Yay! ~
My second shift in smalls was much better than the first. I was with my roommate, Lucy. And I was worried at first because they don't respect her. I knew that if Roxy(or anyone, really) tried anything, Lucy wouldn't have known what to do. But I just sat on the other side of the hok and Roxy stayed with Lucy the whole time. Fiore cuddled with me for a while and Diva (who looks like a gremlin) and Susie (pink nose cutie) sat with me too. I had to break up a few fights but I was so fed up with them by then that it was no problem. Then once food and bottles came halfway through, they all calmed down anyway.
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