Obey Zolac!

Sorry for the radio silence, since my last post I've pretty much done nothing outside of work but lie around and read old OMG logs and threads. This tends to happen from time to time; once I get started it's very hard to stop.

Work's been fun, and the weather's been gorgeous. So weird to be in places that are hot and sunny. Trip to Malama Ki was successful; we caught the four 'amakihi that Carter needed for his immunology study. Two of the birds were infected with the knemidokoptes mites that Boss Jackie discovered on 'amakihi for the first time a few years ago. These skin mites are HORRIBLE; they cause a "scaly-leg" mange that makes it look like the birds' legs have been tempura-fried. It's DISGUSTING. The first bird we caught had one of the most extreme cases that anyone's seen in Hawai'i; the other bird was only in the early stages. I'll post pics sometime so y'all can be disgusted with me. :P

The rest of the week was mostly setting up poles in 'Ainahou (we start netting there on Tuesday), plus driving back down to Malama Ki on Wednesday morning to let our captive birdies go. Tomorrow we go to East Kahuku to scope out mist-netting sites... SO EXCITE. I love East Kahuku, it's gorgeous. And I love Kahuku in general; spent a lot of time there on the last job, I kinda miss it.

This Saturday Shawn and I are going into Hilo for the Kamehameha Day festival, and more importantly to see Prometheus OMG SO FUCKING EXCITED. I'mma see how many other people in housing I can rustle up to come with. Should be fun!

Shawn leaves on Wednesday. Sad day! He has occasionally been aggravating, and things have sometimes been awkward and strange between us, but mostly he's a real chill guy and we get along and I like him. Who the hell else can I nerd out with? It's just nice to have someone around who understands me, you know? He likes SPN and OUaT and GoT and understands why the woodchipper card in Apples To Apples is AWESOME and why I would name my car Oliver and who the Stig is, and today we had awesome conversations about Watchmen (he's read the book!)and Spiderman comics and Batman: The Animated Series and Batman movies. WHO WILL I NERD WITH WHEN HE'S GONE?

...I hope the next to interns are cool. :3

Matt Bomer was in me my dream last night. He, or rather, someone named Adam who was played by Matt Bomer, was in a band, as was bluerose16's character Mal. I was friends with both of them. I went with Mal to get his ears pierced (they weren't pierced already wat? XD;); he got both ears double-pierced and then he wore the GIRLIEST EARRINGS EVER, like, all dangly and gold and floral wtf (also he wore them BACKWARDS). XD Then he and Adam's band had a concert, which I went to. Metric opened for them. The concert was freaking awesome. In between sets, or maybe afterward, I was hanging out with Cory, and she passed on some gossip. She told me that Kelly, Adam's girlfriend, felt threatened by me, and Adam had told her he didn't like me. I got all upset and made her tell me the whole story in detail. I had a crush on Adam (obviously... I mean he looks and acts like Matt Bomer and he's a motherfucking rockstar who sings and plays guitar) and I was really concerned with whether he meant he wasn't into me (which I could live with, I mean, I accepted he had a girlfriend and all), or whether he was ambivalent, or whether I annoyed him and he actively disliked me, which would've made me very sad. I think we determined he probably meant the former, but I wasn't sure, and I felt all worried and self-conscious, so I went to go look for him. Cory passed on more gossip, talking about how he and Kelly had taken a break last winter and probably would again this winter (they had a difficult, long-distance relationship); I couldn't quite help feeling pleased by this prospect, and hope that they'd actually split up. We didn't find Adam right away, but we found Kelly, and also Adam's two-ish-year-old daughter... Sophie, I think? We weren't sure what the story was with Sophie; she wasn't Kelly's, and we weren't sure she was actually genetically related to Adam. She kinda looked like him, but kinda didn't... she had dark eyes, dark, curling hair, definitely looked like she had some Middle Eastern something in her. She was gorgeous but very weird... she was obsessed with babies. Kelly was looking all harassed trying to keep her from abducting other people's infants; she was very brusque with me. She left Sophie with us briefly, during which time we had great difficulty keeping her contained. Adam showed up, also looking harassed... I couldn't tell if he was being edgy around me or just stressed out by Sophie, and I was VERY WORRIED about it.

...Then I woke up.

So graffitimoon tagged me to do this meme for Clara. Like almost two weeks ago.

( So here it is. )