UGH terrible day

Slept til noon, awakened by friend on telephone, did dishes for an hour (still not finished, o_O), got ready to go beg professors for references, and then all hell broke loose.I took my dog out to pee, and heard some cats meowing like crazy. Another lady and I went to look, and four kittens were trapped in a tire on my nextdoor neighbor's carport. They were all wet and pitiful looking, and one was lying on its side and not moving, and looked very very ill. I knocked on the door to ask the people who live there if it was okay if I took the kitties to an animal hospital or something. He said it was okay. Apparently they knew the kitties were out there, but were just going to leave them there. Mama Kitty was nowhere to be found, and the kitties were way too skinny to have been fed recently. Well, I took them out one by one, and the poor little things looked just awful. I got to the last kitty, picked him up, and OH MY GOD one of his eyes was filled with goddamn maggots, and he was limp. He was dead, and with the state of his eye, he was lucky to be that way. So I buried him under a tree, took the others to my house in a box, and tried to feed them some milk. They wouldn't take it, so we decided to take them to an animal hospital to see if there was anything they could do. The lady at the shelter said they were about ten days old. One of the remaining kitties had an infected eye, and they all had bits of their dead brother's infection on them *ACK GAG SPIT HURL*I don't think I will ever forget the sight of that poor little dead cat as long as I live, and even though the neighbor guy who answered the door was kind of cute, I refuse to contemplate being involved with someone who would have let those cats just sit there and starve to death. In his defense, he's new around here and maybe he didn't know where to take them. But GOD that was traumatic. I have a pretty strong stomach usually, but I've been ready to barf all evening. I really hope that doesn't turn up in my dreams. EW EW EW Anyway. Just had to get that out. ate pizza and watched "Peter Pan" with friend after that, then went to the park and walked around and played on the swings.Am afraid to sleep because of above incident, but am hoping to block out the memory soon. I think I'll get online and read some slash to get the image out of my head, but I have a suspicion that it's going to take Giant Squid/Blast-Ended Skrewt to jar this particular image loose. *smack self in head repeatedly*