choo choo

With lovely new fall weather comes not-so-lovely new fall flu bugs. I've been feeling sort of vaguely ill since Sunday night, so have been trying to take it easy while dosing myself with copious amounts of orange juice, ginger ale, and chicken soup. Unfortunately, unspecific-icky-feeling-ness has also been coupled with an inability to fall asleep at night. Being a lover of sleep, this is most distressing for me.

The roommate's cat has also taken to sleeping on my bed at night for the past two nights, and since this started the night of my insomnia, I decided to go to you, the internet--expert on all things cat-related, and get some information.

[Poll #1784186]

Personally I think evil cat magic seems the most likely answer.

I know I saw this in someone else's journal, so if it's you, I apologize for stealing without credit. But this has been generating EPIC conversations over the course of my weekend, and I think it's finally time to bring it back to livejournal world. Thus, in short: What sort of personal ad would you place in the event of a zombie apocalypse?

Think about it. I'm an English (/History!) Major. Besides from maybe being able to light a fire if push came to shove, I have almost NO SURVIVAL SKILLS. If the zombie hoards suddenly rose up and washed across the earth, I would need someone with me to see to my survival. Someone to find me food, or shoot zombies in the head, or tend to my wounds, or maybe even just give me a soothing backrub.

Personal ads could be as general as:
WANTED: Morally flexible hunter/forager, basic engineering and first aid skills a must.

Or as specific as: WANTED: The Doctor. With TARDIS good, but not a deal breaker.

If you're want a whole commune of survival helpers too, that's great! From the answers I've gotten since Saturday, post-apocalypse party members have ranged from Buffy, to R2D2, to Jesus. If you can justify your choice I WANNA KNOW.

So without much more preamble:

[Poll #1338750]

And while I'm at it: Have you (either idly or seriously) considered making a plan for the zombie uprisings? Be truthful now.
-Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe
-Run to the roof and destroy the stairs behind you. Blades don't need reloading. JUST LET THEM COME.
-I don't dwell on it, but I may have practiced throwing LPs at my sister's head.
-Well obviously, the end of the world will come about because of ROBOTS, not zombies. Duh. I keep my computer locked up at night just in case.
-I WELCOME OUR ZOMBIE/ROBOT OVERLORDS
-No

So, I know everyone and their grandmother is SQUEEING about the fact that Pushing Daisies got picked up for a full season already, but I just wanted to say that, for the record, I am squeeing too. ;)

Snagged the icon meme from inara223

Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here (or you know, your own journal, whichever), explaining what they mean and why you're using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along. ( my pretties )

In other news, I went and got vaccinated today (yay for largescale mumps outbreaks in Nova Scotia) and quite literally had to fend off the nurse from jabbing me in my left arm. Had to convince her that, yes indeed, I was a lefty, and would prefer it if I could still write all those pesky midterms after said jabbage was complete. I mean, c'mon lady, us southpaws aren't THAT uncommon! Anyway, these does lead nicely into my (first!) poll:

[Poll #1076460]

And to end up, like last week, the lovely mods at thepiehole posted a Canadian Reactions thread. I squeed there. FIRST! Yeah, Atlantic time zone!