Margaret Cho and Fall Out Boy are all that is keeping me sane today.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT THERE IS A COMIC BOOK STORE IN HILO UNTIL THIS MORNING?? I was busy complaining to someone that we didn't have one, and I thought WAIT BUT WHAT IF WE DO? As is my custom I turned immediately to the internet, and LO! A COMIC BOOK STORE.

It's even in a part of town that I know very well, so... d'ohh! To be fair, though, it's not really visible from the street. On the other hand I am now remembering I've actually been in there, once, back in high school. D'OHH! ...But my friends took me there in the middle of the night and I don't think I saw the actual store part, just a back room full of gamer nerds, so I think if I had any inkling whatsoever that this place was an actual store where you could actually buy actual things, I must've thought it was a gaming store.

COMIC BOOK STORES I MISS YOOOOOOUUUU~! ...When next I'm killing time downtown, I'll have to check this place out!

...In other news, as expected I ran out of data entry within, like, an hour. I reorganized the storage closet and fixed some bird bags for the rest of the morning, then spent all afternoon doing net repair. This is pretty much all I have to look forward to on the days I don't go out in the field with Mark Kapono. Although I went and had a chat with Mark Wasser and I think I'mma get to go surveying down in KW for a few days, so yay! ...Kinda hoping Mark Kapono won't need me on Monday, because I'd love to catch part of the Vitousek talks.

...Okay, break's over... must find a sort of half hour sized job to occupy me until I can go home.

BAD DOGS and baby birds

BELLE ATE MY SLIPPER. DDDDD:<

...So just as I was getting ready to leave the field station, some girls with volunteer shirts come up and they're like, "Are you one of the bird people? WE FOUND THIS BABY BIRD WHAT DO WE DO?" And they're holding this tiny adorable feathery thing, and I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, Carter and like anyone with any sort of authority has gone home already, and I have no idea what if anything our department does with stray hatchlings but GODDAMMIT YES I AM ONE OF THE BIRD PEOPLE so I took it. And I stole borrowed some Nekton and an eyedropper and the hospital box and I took it home with me.

I think it's a baby Leiothrix? It's very cute, most of its feathers have come in but it's still tiny, definitely not quite ready to fledge. I've got the hospital box set up in the bathroom with the desk lamp from the bedroom and one of the vanity lightbulbs from above the bathroom mirror (incandescent) for warmth. It's been taking Nekton and just now I tweezer-fed it some mashed up banana and a;shdglka;shjdflak BABY BIRD AAAAAAAHHHH SO CUTE.

...And I'm really hoping that when I bring the bird back in tomorrow morning it will still be alive Carter will be there and he will tell me WHY YES OF COURSE ANGELA, WE HAVE A WHOLE SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR TAKING CARE OF LOST BABY BIRDS, LET ME TAKE THAT ADORABLE THING OFF YOUR HANDS.

Oh gaaaaaaaaawwwdd another animal to take care of, WHY. (At least this has all of the cute and none of the annoying. The dogs and cats could learn a thing or two from it.)

ETA: apple_pathways pointed out that photo evidence was required: