So I went to Build-A-Bear in the Mall of America the other day and I did indeed make myself a teddybear. It is a girl bear! Would you all like to see my girl bear? There were many glittery dresses to choose from.

This is my bear:










Colonel Judy Falcone, angry drunken panda

Missing from this photo are her gun and bamboo cigarettes. I am enchanted with my new toy.

Tomorrow I start my journey back to my home planet. I may see another zoo first, depending on if I can survive the heat. Turns out I'm super fragile once the temperature goes above 80. I suppose this is the dark side to being able to survive (windy) below 50 without a coat.

I took pictures at the zoo. Come one, come all.





Gophers on a coffee break.


( Enter for my exciting Red River Zoo adventure in Fargo, North Dakota )

A lot of things were greeted by my mother with: "...is it stuffed?"




( Come with me on this visual odyssey )



( An unfinished exhibit? So what. Wait, what's coming out from underneath? )

It should be noted that North Dakota was about 65% duck. Here are some zoo ducks:



Let's end this on triple duckbutt.

My sister, smiley_cow (lj) objects to us leaving her at the Red River Zoo:

Assembling John's Summer Vacation post, which will feature comics and zoo animals and other such sundry.



A tiger tells me he's had a long day

Herr Muther: "Good news! My spirit guide is a dolphin."
Me: "What happened to the old one?"*
Herr Muther: "This is what a facebook quiz told me. It means I'm graceful and always poised. I'm looking forward to that."

So yeah, I'm heading on a roadtrip tomorrow morning. I'm heading to exciting, exhilarating, exfoliating, Minnesota. Long story. My travelling companion is Herr Muther, who correctly guessed that if I tried to drive myself there I would end up off in a ditch being eaten by jackalopes. Also, we like trips.

So I'm gonna be gone until at least the ninth. There'll be internet access at my hotels, but expect me to post about as much as I always do. But just in case any of y'all need me, know that I'm probably at a zoo somewhere.


*Previous updates on her spirit animal were: "A kitten or a unicorn. It varies!"

I am rockin' the bumblebee hair, after a successful bout of dyeing.

My final decision on the whole job thing is due to the fact I am completely crazycakes (clarifcation: schizophrenic) I'm gonna do my Road Trip of Road Trippery as planned (nine, ten days or thereabouts) and then finish my remaining shifts before the toy store I worked at closes down 4evah at the end of July. (sidenote: Briefly debated doing some vandalism the day I got the 'we're closing! no moar job for you!' notice in my paycheque. Specifically, spraying chrome paint on the broom (I hated) to bling it up. What can they do? Fire me?)

Following that, I'm taking august off and up to about mid-september so I can have a birthday without job stress or you know, spending time under a table with a frying pan in case spiders are coming to kill me. I am an anxiety bear.

I'm a very lucky person, living in a family that can actually afford to let me take this time off. Work's something I gotta make myself do, though, to make sure I don't completely cut myself off from you know, people, again. As much as my cranky hermit impression totes gets the ladies.

PS: I changed my default! Hi, Jubes.

I got laid off today. I'm torn between a feeling of confused unhappiness and 'oh, hey, now I can have a CSI marathon'

My new notebook. It's quite small.

In other news, I'm sick and have been for about two weeks now. I think it might be time for me to see a doctor.

Wait, no. That's being a quitter.

This is mine and snacky's bingo sheet. It is ours and we love it. We're participating in cliche_bingo.

If we actually write something in-between reading eachother's favourite canons, we'll be posting fic for a while.

So far we've decided:

diaries and journals: csi nick/greg/sara
historical au: csi
when I'm 64, futurefic: lord of the rings eowyn
sleeping arrangements: csi warrick/grissom (guys, I haven't seen season eight and I'm in denial okay)
crossover, books and literary: lord of the rings and narnia boromir, faramir, susan, edmund
fairytales and folklore: hellboy! I'm going for comics version, or the cartoon in a pinch
journeys and quests: dc comics wonder woman, batman, superman
drugs: batman done in comicform, not written.

We're still plotting the other fics. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Any random thing might trigger a plot idea.

Also, thank GOD for dreamwidth's auto post-save. I accidentally closed this tab when I hit the wrong button.

Actual comic: Tintin vs White Gangsters

So yeah. I'm supposed to be reading up on how to cause cosmic horror to a bunch of grown women and one man playing teenage girls (Call of Cthulhu game) and instead I'm reading Tintin comics.

So far I've learned that Chicago is full of trapdoors to trap unaware Belgian reporters. Trapdoors: Natural predator? This bears exploring.

Anyway, the trigger of this is I made the mistake of falling asleep after thirty hours awake so in-between dreaming about Grover as done by Chuck Palanhiuk, I dreamt about the Tintin cast doing Twilight.

Let's just say Captain Haddock wasn't having with Edward's treatment of Tintin.

I'll choose some of my favourite childhood Tintin comics to show later.

kay I got sick of hiding in my closet and I'm pretty hungry, so I decided to go into town for sushi.

Had some fun figuring out how to rev up the tractor and took it out with my baseball bat in hand. I really hope these are actually zombies and not, say, drug addicts or leprosy victims because a lot are going under my tractor and the rest are getting baseball batted.

Well, were. I'm on the highway now and updating from my phone. I outpaced them, except for all the weird squishy gophers which suck at dodging wheels now as they did when they were alive. Crunch crunch crunch.

I should take pictures of this blue sky!

Wish tractor had a radio.

If the sushi place is closed I will be Miffed.

So, it is my wont to stay up late these nights, often until six pm. Six pm which is thirty hours after I woke up. Anyway, what I'm getting at is I see some awesome things staying up like this and a lot isn't hallucinations. I've seen beautiful sunrises, unusual birds, and the sort of stars you only see when you live out in the country.

So I heard some rustling tonight and I'm like 'oh blast, a cat snuck out' and I turn on the outside lights to see where I have to perform a ninja mission on a cat to get it back inside.

*click* go the lights.

My yard looks like it's full of scarecrows.

"Goddamnit," I think. My brother's stupid friends are pulling another prank.

That's when they all start moving towards the light.

I've turned off the lights and I'm reviewing what I have in my garage since they're between me and the shed. It looks like all I have is my tractor and a crappy baseball bat.

I'm going to go hide in my closet until morning and hope they're gone by then. BBL.

Everyone, meet my new toy. So far violence hasn't broken out, even though he won't let go of his gigantic gun.

Spending my evening watching Karl Urban's/Bones'/Eomer's and Aphrodite's boobs.



Haldir is also in this episode! Yay!

There is this meme where you go around posting your otps and see what it says about you as the person! 10 otps. My standard for this was 'what will make me read a fic just from seeing the pairing/what do I like to write best'



1. Batman/Commissioner Gordon Batman comics when Batman isn't being a dickass
2. Garak/Julian Bashir Deep Space Nine, Star Trek
3. Legolas/Gimli Lord of the Rings
4. Snape/Dumbledore Harry Potter
5. Xena/Gabrielle Xena, Warrior Princess
6. Gambit/Wolverine Some combination of the comics and cartoon canon that exists in my mind ever since I rejected what marvel comics was doing and went into a deep denial. Not about them, just their general 'what the fuck? Why are you writing this? WHY DID YOU BLOW UP EVERY CHARACTER I LIKED'
7. Kit Fisto/Aayla Secura Star Wars, they're the jedi in my icon (lj only). I'd link you to some comic scans about them, but scans_daily got its ass tos'd.
8. Sherlock/Watson Sherlock Holmes. I wonder what the new movie will be like!
9. Jeeves/Wooster Jeeves and Wooster, because I like classics
10. Worf/Jadzia Dax Deep Space Nine, Star Trek


bonus: Gambit/Rogue from the X-Men cartoon was bebeh John's first otp. It later changed to Gambit/Iceman. Oh, the vicious flamewars I nearly had.


Making this list was a little odd, because while a lot of my favourite characters are women, and I do tend to like canon pairings, for my fic reading it seems I'm a lot more likely to go after romantic fic if it's m/m slash.

Hina says I like power couples, pointing out a lot of these people are strong or powerful in different ways.

Herr Muther: *stares at Doc*
Doc: *alarmed shifty eyes*
Me: I like how she just looks at you adoringly.
Doc: I wish she wouldn't.
Herr Muther: Doc's so pretty.
Doc: That's about the worst thing you could have said.
Me: Noo. "I like your skin"
Doc: That's the worst thing.
Herr Muther: *confused look, then finally says* I like her HAIR...
Doc: MOM STOP

And that is your scene from my life.

oh according to my mom beaver flu is real. I AM DYING OF REGULAR FLU

guys guys i have the beaver flu

The view that initially brought me out of my brightly lit cave. I didn't feel like taking a picture out the window. It's gotten even nicer out there since the picture, but I don't feel like going out again.





A bit more to the side, for some clouds. There had actually been a bird of prey there a moment ago, but I just missed it. I seriously suck.





Dandelions coming! Oh fuck no.

Hey, sports fans. I was doing a test run of a call of cthulhu game (the usual gm stuff, removing all rude references to foreign people, realize the players are playing chicken with me, feeding them to cthulhu) when I looked out the window and noticed ominous things.

Being a naturally inquisitive sort, I went out to take photos.







This is what I saw first! Plz to enjoy the deck furniture. Normally there is at least one cat lounging.





This is what I saw when I looked to the side. A little ominous! Also, that's what my yard looks like. The top edge parts, anyway.





There were some clear spots right above me.





Then I saw lightning and ran through these doors to keep from becoming a crispy-fried Canuck.

THE END