where soft rains fell
May. 22nd, 2017 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaIt's goodbye to Ashley but it's only goodbye for a few months, as she'll be in France or Germany (or Spain, I don't know, I'm not her supervisor) by the next moonrise. In retrospect, I just demonstrated my complete ignorance of air travel. I'm pretty sure she's not using a space-time vorpal or arbiter recall to get there, she's getting there via airplane. Rachel's back. She's not quite friends with Leah, more like an acquaintance, which in my worldview translates to a relationship status of receptive.
She did take the book. I even told her that if she didn't want it, she should just give it back to me right there instead of sparing my feelings and yes I know that she's shy and doesn't necessarily say what she means, so if she does leave it behind, I'm going to assume it's just Ashley being Ashley and she just genuinely forgot to take it. I told her not to bring it with her to Europe, air travel being what it is. I told her about Jasmine, both the woman with the big orange cat and shih tzu, and the snake, though I had to show her Kaa, and I showed her a picture of the great horned owl but not the screech owl. I told her that I was wrong to doubt her. I told her that I hope the world will be a better place when I see her again.
I wonder if it's possible to surgically implant a camera in Jack's face and operate it remotely.
Here it is.
I have a fascination with places unsuited for human habitation like 97% of Egypt or if you ask Archer, all of Egypt because the Nile is infested with Crocodylus niloticus, which has the strongest bite force of any living animal and stomach acids that can dissolve hoof and bone.
The story of the Aouzou Strip is as follows: France took over what is now Niger and Chad for what I only guess is that they were offended by the idea of there being land out there that wasn't under the control of white people and they offered some land to Italy in the 1930s as an concession to keep Mussolini from building their relationship with Nazi Germany, and obviously that didn't happen, so I guess the transfer never officially occurred but then decolonization happened and Libya decided it was rightfully theirs and Chad and Libya fought nine years over that strip of land with the area of Virginia and the population of one of those dinky towns in rural Virginia, and the US, Egypt, Zaïre and Sudan all got involved, and Chad won, only to find that the only thing there was sand and more sand and even more sand.
Danielle helped rescue an otter with a broken leg or maybe it was a fisher.
We had come in an African grey parrot who would have conversations with his partner but when he died, he stopped speaking, only whistled, a ball python named Asia, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, or that continent where ball pythons aren't native to, owned by a woman named Lauren whose hair was half blonde and half black, a ball python named Helios owned by a woman with green hair and a tattoo of a five pointed star surrounded by designs who told me about parrots who would swear at each other and told each other to shut the fuck up, a snake named Bob who was not a boa constrictor even though the name would be far more appropriate for a snake with a mustache.
It was worth going in on Sunday instead just to hear Jacob sing I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight regarding a dead squirrel. Matt said it was too soon. Christabel wanted to feed it to the dermestid beetles but got too ahead of herself and gave them some rotted guinea pig. Christabel is the one who looks a bit like Rachel, though she wears glasses.
One of the interns doesn't mind chopping up mice and guinea pigs, even somewhat decayed guinea pigs, but does hate handling mealworms. Me, I'm the opposite. Mealworms, earthworms, even cockroaches and crickets, pains in the asses that they are, are fine. Dead mice are ick. Dead things you have to cut into pieces for the raptors are even more ick.
Someone was listening to a 90s alt rock station and I'm thinking "no, this can't be AAF, they're playing Deftones" and there is too much 90s alt rock and not enough 80s shlock and not enough post-grunge. I say 90s but Change (In The House of Flies) was released in 2000.
The goose had one of his legs pinned and then held with some bits of rubber tubing and gauze. Talia was holding him in a towel sling trying to get him to put pressure on his feet and walk around. Jacob told him "put one flapper in front of the other," and "don't bite me, this is your fault." We think he's eating, he just isn't moving to his food. The goose honked and Jacob says "he's saying thank you."
The word "fowl" is even part of their name, he said to Christabel. I spared her the cleaning of the gull cage.
A baby goose had its leg in a cast.
Talia said she doesn't even know what a gull is. "Oh, a seagull." Probably thought of lilies and sea lilies or fowl and waterfowl.
There's not much in the owl's mouth except for a giant tube for swallowing. "It's nice and slippery," Talia says of the mouse bits. We had to deworm him and Talia's biggest fear is worms. He looked sleepy, which makes sense because it's the equivalent of a 2 AM snack for him. They're like hobbits. First breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, midnight snack.
The clock in med ward stopped. It kept ticking but the second hand didn't move. Raphael says that he's in France a lot and their 24 hour clocks are just 12 hour clocks with 13-24 written above 1-12 and so they're also right twice a day. I swear I've seen a 24 hour clock with all the numbers crammed on there.
The other screech owl got oxygen therapy because it really helps save brain cells after blunt force trauma. Christabel says that in casinos, they have no windows or clocks so people don't notice the passage of time (this is true) and they pump oxygen inside (this is not true, as well as impractical; they would need thousands of oxygen cylinders daily and also people smoke in casinos and if someone went in there with a staticy sweater, BOOM, oh the humanity!).
Neither Talia nor I have ever set foot inside a casino but we can both believe that. After all, I have the luck of Relian Kru.
Principle 4: The Maze Layout Beats Long, Wide, Straight Passageways and Aisles
The opossum turns her poop into diarrhea and weaponizes against people who use the wrong pronoun. Yesterday, Jacob called her by the correct pronoun and she didn't poop all over the place.
Talia once got raccoon formula on herself.
Talia was eating a salad of greens, grilled pineapple, pepperoni, feta, blueberries, carrots, avocados, green peppers, with balsamic dressing. I'm sharing this with you because it sounds really amazing and if you want to try it, you should. Christabel says the Wildlife Center needs a vending machine, preferably one of those fancy vending machines that dispenses coffee.
Burning Question: do you seek knowledge of time travel?
She did take the book. I even told her that if she didn't want it, she should just give it back to me right there instead of sparing my feelings and yes I know that she's shy and doesn't necessarily say what she means, so if she does leave it behind, I'm going to assume it's just Ashley being Ashley and she just genuinely forgot to take it. I told her not to bring it with her to Europe, air travel being what it is. I told her about Jasmine, both the woman with the big orange cat and shih tzu, and the snake, though I had to show her Kaa, and I showed her a picture of the great horned owl but not the screech owl. I told her that I was wrong to doubt her. I told her that I hope the world will be a better place when I see her again.
I wonder if it's possible to surgically implant a camera in Jack's face and operate it remotely.
Here it is.
I have a fascination with places unsuited for human habitation like 97% of Egypt or if you ask Archer, all of Egypt because the Nile is infested with Crocodylus niloticus, which has the strongest bite force of any living animal and stomach acids that can dissolve hoof and bone.
The story of the Aouzou Strip is as follows: France took over what is now Niger and Chad for what I only guess is that they were offended by the idea of there being land out there that wasn't under the control of white people and they offered some land to Italy in the 1930s as an concession to keep Mussolini from building their relationship with Nazi Germany, and obviously that didn't happen, so I guess the transfer never officially occurred but then decolonization happened and Libya decided it was rightfully theirs and Chad and Libya fought nine years over that strip of land with the area of Virginia and the population of one of those dinky towns in rural Virginia, and the US, Egypt, Zaïre and Sudan all got involved, and Chad won, only to find that the only thing there was sand and more sand and even more sand.
Danielle helped rescue an otter with a broken leg or maybe it was a fisher.
We had come in an African grey parrot who would have conversations with his partner but when he died, he stopped speaking, only whistled, a ball python named Asia, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, or that continent where ball pythons aren't native to, owned by a woman named Lauren whose hair was half blonde and half black, a ball python named Helios owned by a woman with green hair and a tattoo of a five pointed star surrounded by designs who told me about parrots who would swear at each other and told each other to shut the fuck up, a snake named Bob who was not a boa constrictor even though the name would be far more appropriate for a snake with a mustache.
It was worth going in on Sunday instead just to hear Jacob sing I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight regarding a dead squirrel. Matt said it was too soon. Christabel wanted to feed it to the dermestid beetles but got too ahead of herself and gave them some rotted guinea pig. Christabel is the one who looks a bit like Rachel, though she wears glasses.
One of the interns doesn't mind chopping up mice and guinea pigs, even somewhat decayed guinea pigs, but does hate handling mealworms. Me, I'm the opposite. Mealworms, earthworms, even cockroaches and crickets, pains in the asses that they are, are fine. Dead mice are ick. Dead things you have to cut into pieces for the raptors are even more ick.
Someone was listening to a 90s alt rock station and I'm thinking "no, this can't be AAF, they're playing Deftones" and there is too much 90s alt rock and not enough 80s shlock and not enough post-grunge. I say 90s but Change (In The House of Flies) was released in 2000.
The goose had one of his legs pinned and then held with some bits of rubber tubing and gauze. Talia was holding him in a towel sling trying to get him to put pressure on his feet and walk around. Jacob told him "put one flapper in front of the other," and "don't bite me, this is your fault." We think he's eating, he just isn't moving to his food. The goose honked and Jacob says "he's saying thank you."
The word "fowl" is even part of their name, he said to Christabel. I spared her the cleaning of the gull cage.
A baby goose had its leg in a cast.
Talia said she doesn't even know what a gull is. "Oh, a seagull." Probably thought of lilies and sea lilies or fowl and waterfowl.
There's not much in the owl's mouth except for a giant tube for swallowing. "It's nice and slippery," Talia says of the mouse bits. We had to deworm him and Talia's biggest fear is worms. He looked sleepy, which makes sense because it's the equivalent of a 2 AM snack for him. They're like hobbits. First breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, midnight snack.
The clock in med ward stopped. It kept ticking but the second hand didn't move. Raphael says that he's in France a lot and their 24 hour clocks are just 12 hour clocks with 13-24 written above 1-12 and so they're also right twice a day. I swear I've seen a 24 hour clock with all the numbers crammed on there.
The other screech owl got oxygen therapy because it really helps save brain cells after blunt force trauma. Christabel says that in casinos, they have no windows or clocks so people don't notice the passage of time (this is true) and they pump oxygen inside (this is not true, as well as impractical; they would need thousands of oxygen cylinders daily and also people smoke in casinos and if someone went in there with a staticy sweater, BOOM, oh the humanity!).
Neither Talia nor I have ever set foot inside a casino but we can both believe that. After all, I have the luck of Relian Kru.
Principle 4: The Maze Layout Beats Long, Wide, Straight Passageways and Aisles
The opossum turns her poop into diarrhea and weaponizes against people who use the wrong pronoun. Yesterday, Jacob called her by the correct pronoun and she didn't poop all over the place.
Talia once got raccoon formula on herself.
Talia was eating a salad of greens, grilled pineapple, pepperoni, feta, blueberries, carrots, avocados, green peppers, with balsamic dressing. I'm sharing this with you because it sounds really amazing and if you want to try it, you should. Christabel says the Wildlife Center needs a vending machine, preferably one of those fancy vending machines that dispenses coffee.
Burning Question: do you seek knowledge of time travel?
