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7 years ago @ The Toast - Everything What's Wron... · 3 replies · +53 points

My two possum stories, both from when I lived at my parents' house out in the country:

1) There was a female possum who lived in the wellhouse, which had a wire fence around it because we used to have a dog and that was where we penned it at times. The gate had long since fallen in, and there was a hole in the fence near the bottom that had rusted out. The possum got in and out through that hole, because her vision was so bad that she never saw the fallen gate. My parents used to throw some of their leftovers and scraps off the back porch to feed various animals that came through, and I watched this poor possum pick up half a baguette and try to fit both it and her through the hole in the fence for ten minutes. It never occurred to her to turn it sideways, and she kept bashing it against the fence crossways, until I went inside because I felt bad for her.

2) The same female possum would come up on the back porch at twilight to catch and eat bugs. One evening I watched her through the window on the door--she had a pouch full of babies who all wanted to come out and play and she kept having to stop and stuff them back in. It was darling, and everyone who's been exasperated with a willful toddler would empathize with her at that moment.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +15 points

I point at a random campfire and say "They were trying to remember the words to that song. You could go play it for them."

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +13 points

I got a 3

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +24 points

Confession time: the primary reason I read the Zooborns blog is to be disdained by giraffe calves.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 6 replies · +121 points

When I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism twenty years ago, we called them attack bards.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 6 replies · +117 points

Happy Friday, Toasties! I wish you all as magnificent a side-eye as Rocket the giraffe calf.

(more on Rocket)

7 years ago @ The Toast - Things I Would Do If A... · 0 replies · +2 points

We lived in East Africa when I was a child, and on our first night there the house was invaded by army ants. Every bug encounter since then has been anticlimactic.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +6 points

Who knows? A few years later I started hearing things in the air conditioning vents at home, and then seeing a bit of movement, and eventually my husband heard it too. When he took the vents off to check, there was, inexplicably, pieces of brown paper in the vents that were moving around in the air stream. It was a 60-year-old house, so I assume at some point the ducts and/or pipes were lined with brown paper, but I have no idea otherwise.

My ADD interviews were fairly short and straightforward and took up maybe an hour--I think the psychiatrist was more interested in making money by cranking people through than in careful diagnosis. :/

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 11 replies · +9 points

TOTALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION: I'm getting my nails done tomorrow and I have no idea what color. Ideas? Just not purple because I work for a school whose team colors involve purple and I don't want people to think I have school spirit. Also, I have pale skin and hair that is currently red and blue.

I'm going to a library conference in Austin next week and want nice nails to make up for my total inability to actually network.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure the squirrels in the attic of our last rental house were the cause of the flea infestation our cats ended up with. (and one of the very many reasons we ended up buying our own home, so that we could actually fix problems that happened instead of relying on an unsympathetic property manager to fail to fix them.)

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