I am a badger today.

Wedding is pretty much set.

Had a damn good ride a few weeks ago where I was the only one who showed up to the group lesson. So I got to learn how to ride a serpentine. It's a squiggle with 3 curves. I should probably make a riding userpic.

Playing WoW like always. Levelling my 6th toon to 85.

Work is slowing down, which is good, because I give zero fucks lately.

Making chicken cacciatore and risotto for dinner tonight. Gotta stop for groceries on the way home.

This is freestyle dressage, and I want to learn it someday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCj92zA0tU&feature=related

I am super bored and have run out of internet.

A

A is for aardvark. I love aardvarks. When I was a kid, I would climb around the chairs in the viewing room at the Bergen County Wildlife Center singing the aardvark song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eecoFEGO8Q

B

B is for banana. I used to live with cosmic_hiccup, who loved Ralph Wiggum. I learned how to say things in his voice, including "Go banana!"

C

C is for cookie. That's good enough for me, cause Cookie-cookie-cookie starts with C!

Cookie was my first word.

D

D is for dinosaur. I love dinosaurs. I wanted to be a palaeontologist when I was a kid, but then a garage door closed on my head, and I couldn't do math so well anymore. So much for that future.

E

E is for eggplant. When I was in middle school, my dad would pick me up and take me out to dinner at this Chinese sit-down place. I love to get baby eggplant sauteed with garlic.

F

F is for fucks, and I don't give any, which is why I'm posting an entry for each letter of the alphabet.

G

G is for goose. When I was temping one summer at Allstate, there were these geese that would hang out by the pond out front. Once, a pair of them got hit by a car. It must have been a slow collision, because they were injured but not fatally. One had damage to a leg, and one to a wing. I am pretty sure the leg was the male and the wing was the female.

My friend Wendy and I worked together, and we had put planks leading in and out of the water so ducklings could climb out of the pond and not get trapped. In the course of finding the right planks, we had put in some 1ft by 2 ft boards, which got left and were floating around. So the male was trying to get onto the plank to get out of the pond and couldn't. It kept slipping away from underneath him.

I sat down next to him and he wasn't afraid of me at all. I held the plank still and pushed it down a bit so he could scoot on to it, and he let me lift him out of the water that way. When the female saw that he was okay, she swam over and let me do the same thing. We had called animal control already, and they came and picked them up and took them to a sanctuary for rehab.

G is for the wild geese that trusted me, which was pretty great.

7 things Margaret wants me to talk about

Pleasure, birds, shore, paramour, liver, ribbon, silk

Pleasure: Food. Love. Good books. Tea. Conversation. Music.

Birds: I like birds! First family pet growing up was a remarkably tolerant parakeet named Snowbird. She let me hold her, and she would sit on your ear of corn if you had one while she was out.

Shore: I love beaches. My godmother has a place in Cape Cod that I love to visit. And I love Ocean Grove, and Asbury Park, and and and...And Maine! And everywhere that has coast! I could never live in an inland state.

Paramour: a lover. I've had a few, in my time. I think that if you want to know who fits with you, you have to try a lot of different kinds of people on to be sure.

Liver: I used to love liverwurst, but now I'm not a fan. You can have my share.

Ribbon: Pretty, but impractical. My cat likes to eat ribbon. And then throw it back up. We don't keep any in the house.

Silk: Silk is marvelous. Excellent both for beauty and strength, equally valued by Edo period Geisha and Mongol warriors.