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In more warm and fuzzy news...
   We currently have five young chickens (well plus a cat named Pelekea Cachaça, & a goldfish named Leviathan that lives in a flowerpot). Mother, who is a science teacher at a local jewish school, raised them from eggs in class. Now that they are older, however, they spend most of their time here and only make periodic fieldtrips to class.
   The chickies (four light yellow, one brown, no names yet) have more personality than I expected. The other day the escaped from corner of the yard mother had attempted to restrict them to. I didn't know whether or not mother had intended for them to be out and about but they seemed fine so I let them wander the yard. They spent the whole day roaming my yard in a little herd.
   At one point the cat was sitting in the very middle of them, I think because it made her feel sociable the same way being in the room the people are is appealing. Then the brown one charged at her and she ran away! Later the cat saw some grass rustling and started stalking.. then she ran and pounced and -- mid pounce realized it was not some lizard but an adolescent chicken, and aborted mid-air!
   Also often when I'd come out to check on them I'd stop about ten feet away, and one (I don't know if its the same one) will walk up to me, stop at my feet and look up at me, and then rejoin the others.


   Its not all fun and games though. Originally there were four. Unfortunately, when they were wee, a hawk landed on their cage and mauled one through the cage, killing it. Later, despite upgraded cage protection, the possum managed cart off one entirely and injure the remaining two. If there are two possums, which has been debated from the start, I think the other one should be consequently named Grendel. Also, Kristy is quite cross with the possum because of this. So as not to traumatize the children, mother got four new chicks of about the same age. One later died of a unknown causes (possibly dehydration/heat exhaustion, though water and shade were both available and the others were fine?) leaving the current five.


   As you may recall I'd previously announced we'd come into possession of some wee baby bunnies. Quick research revealed that at such a young age these bunnies would need very extensive care and were "unlikely to survive without professional assistance," and so after looking after them for maybe an hour and a half I found an animal shelter to take care of them.


Best Weekend Ever!
   This weekend is going to be the excellent.
   Firstly, tomorrow, Friday, is the official Krispalooza 2007. My birthday is actually on Monday, whereupon I turn 25. )= But as long as I'm still officially an early-twenty-something, we're all going out on Friday! Plan is BJ's (microbrewery) in Laguna Beach Hills at 8:30, then Hennessey's (pub), also in LB. Already it looks like a bunch of people can make it so its going to be a rollicking good time! You should come.
   Saturday Kristy & I are going to the Phi Alpha Delta of UC San Diego formal. For $30/person we get a five course meal, open bar for an hour, of course a dj, AND, its at Sea World! We're excited.
   Sunday as part of my birthday present, Kristy bought us tickets on a nature cruise to the Coronado Islands. We're excited!!
   And then on Monday I turn 25, aka life is over. )=

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"D" Stands for "Drama"- So I was taking the "D-Line" unitrans bus yesterday morning and doing the only thing worth doing on a bus -eavesdroping- and it was a bit interesting. First this guy and this girl boarded the bus and from their body language it was just SO apparent that the girl wanted the guy and the guy wasn't having it. Not just like she liked him but she was familiar with him -- like they'd gotten their groove on. So she's all standing next to him and got her hand on his arm or back or something the whole time.. whereas HE has his hands on the rail or in his pocket the whole time.. at at least two points in shifting around he came up with nowhere to put his hand, where the obvious choice was holding her hand which was just waiting for him, but nope its back into the pocket. It was kinda sad actually.
   And then there was Alex the Sorority Girl sitting next to me. She was talking to her friend about this guy she had been kinda dating or something, but hadn't talked to in two weeks because he didn't return a number of calls. And then... then her friend is like "oh I hung out with him last weekend." Alex: "he wasn't in town last weekend though." dun dun dun!


   In other news, this morning I became officially astounded by my apartmentmate Steve's prodigious ability to ALWAYS be in the shower when I wake up and stumble towards it.. no matter WHAT tiem that may happen to be. Along a similar magick vein, the aforementioned Alex the Sorority Girl has a similar ability to be on ANY bus at ANY time that I happen to be taking. Its even more unlikely than Steve's shower taking, since the latter only varies by say two hours generally but we are talking ANY bus at ANY time.


   So yea, yesterday was my 21st birthday. I am for stoked. Kristy, Christie, Courtney, Angie, Garian, Russ, and Renry took me out to Fuzios, which was rawsome. Being the shameless eating machine that I am, after I finished my firecracker pork fusilli and proceeded to finish Angie's pod thai and Kristy's salad of some kind. It was for awesome, thanks guys. And then Courtney the Sorority Girl got me a whole bunch of DC cookies. Yay.


   In summary: There are now FIVE bands booked for my party on Saturday and if you're not going you will bring shame upon your descendants for generations to come.

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