Very on the mark. I didn't get past the first sentence before I started hearing it in my head as if David Attenborough were reading it.
What Moby said, though what I'd really like is a Werner Herzog version.
as if David Attenborough were reading it
Which suggests we also need the Snoop Dogg Plizzanet Earth version.
The intruder gave us an early present of The Little Brute Family (but she had us take it out of her hand to build trust). It showed she had familiarity with Geebies and would probably not make any sudden movements.
If you don't want to make any sudden movements, don't order chicken "medium rare".
Mainly I won them over by giving them muffins. Lots and lots of muffins.
Sweet breakfast treats are the indispensable tool of intrepid researchers.
This is very cool! Six months means you're on about the same timetable as me, but with adding an adult rather than subtracting one. Much of it sounds familiar.
I love The Little Brute Family so hard. "Then they groaned and went to sleep. That was how they lived."
It is how we live! We also scream when we get stuck in the snow, and we sink like stones.
Stones don't sink in the snow always.
We're warm enough to melt the snow and cut right through it.
Herzog, pwned, never goddamn mind.
Messily, did that massive vitamin regimen ever lead to anything good?
I stopped passing out all the time, and I haven't gotten any worse. But I'm not really better yet; Heebie and Jammies carry/wheel me around the house all the time.
not ALL the time. Sometimes I carry them.
I'm glad it stopped getting worse and that you're not passing out.
Today they're carrying me though. Only not literally because I am mostly just staying in my bed. I've set up a Geebie-blind to catch glimpses of them as they go by.
Not passing out is very good. Are Geebies strictly catch and release?
The adults are. The Geeblets are catch-and-then-they-cling-to-you-for-hours.
They've imprinted on you because of the muffins.
They don't actually cling to me that much. They just scamper around wherever I was about to walk.
It takes years of field research to tell them apart.
I saw a picture of a kitty climbing the wall. I was very impressed.
27 made me go see I Can Haz Cheezburger. There's not one captioned cat you can see without scrolling down.
My pilot study of the Geeblet was promising, but further research has been stymied by a lack of travel funding.
Maybe you could do fund it by leading ecotours.
OT:
I think Mallory Ortberg is coming into her own as Dear Prudence.
I refuse to read Dear Prudence on principle. If the best thing the world can think to do with a singular talent like Ortberg is have her write a goddamn advice column, then we as a species deserve to be relentlessly exterminated.
31: Agree. Much improved over a meh beginning.
I liked it better when she was telling people they could steal dogs.