Seamus is 2 years old, and I've had him since 4 mos old. When I got him, I was working regular teaching hours, leave the house at 7:15-7:30 home at 4-5, and summers he gets a lot of time with me (he is still adjusting to the back to work thing
) This year I've begun coaching and I also tutor once a week and a couple nights a week that has me out until 7-8pm. That alone is stressing him out a little. He cries on Thursday nights (tutoring night) when I come home after 7 and cries the next morning when I leave every week. Come January, I will be going back for my Masters on top of the coaching and tutoring... which will have me home later nearly every night... it's looking like 10-11 maybe one night if I have to take a late class. Aside from me running myself ragged, I get nervous that he will be bored and lonely and restless. A second cat is not an option right now because the time it would take to adjust them to each other and get that settled isn't there and I have a feeling he may not take too well to that anyway, plus I think I was lucky when the landlord said yes to him because the woman who used to live downstairs wasn't allowed a pet when she thought about it (I think she wanted a dog though)
Anyway, I've been driving myself crazy about this all week... I can't put off school anymore, I'll never go back if I do, the coaching is fun and is the money that will pay for the school, and the tutoring is a favor to a friend that is practically family. I know there are people out there who work far more hours than I do and have much more of a commute than I do and have a cat they love and care for... I am probably just being neurotic because he's crying at me on my late nights for attention... I guess I just need to hear stories of people who spend those kind of hours away from their cat to feel reassured...
Anyway, I've been driving myself crazy about this all week... I can't put off school anymore, I'll never go back if I do, the coaching is fun and is the money that will pay for the school, and the tutoring is a favor to a friend that is practically family. I know there are people out there who work far more hours than I do and have much more of a commute than I do and have a cat they love and care for... I am probably just being neurotic because he's crying at me on my late nights for attention... I guess I just need to hear stories of people who spend those kind of hours away from their cat to feel reassured...