I checked out the "prescient" dog from yesterday's entry - in the dictionary, that is. I thought it meant foretelling, and yup, it does: "prae" = before and "scire" = to know.
I could accept that a dog could have some sort of sixth sense that would enable it to know things that weren't perceptible to humans. Including even illness, perhaps. But to be able to know the future? That just seems a little weird. Maybe the vet doesn't exactly know what "prescient" means?
Still working on the anxiety. I've cataloged my fears and I think I have identified them all. I slept through the night - no 4 am weirdness. I had a little pre-meltdown at Target today, but we left before it got out of control. Haven't felt like that since fall 2003 when I had a complete loss of emotional control (quietly, so as not to disturb the class or call attention to myself) in seminar one Friday afternoon. I am pretty sure that no one noticed it that day and that perhaps is the strangest thing of all. Today there was nothing to notice - unless you'd been in the dressing room watching me snap plastic hangers. Why are they so flimsy anyhow?