Grab bag.

[tenlittlebullets]

Obviously I have gone completely off my nut, because I've spent several successive evenings looking up information on parrot ownership. Even though I absolutely do not need a feathery bundle of terror in my life, my parents would kill me, I'll be going back to school at some point and won't have a stable living situation, and I'd have to save up for a while to afford the initial expense. Not to mention that apartment-hunting once I'm on my own will probably be hard enough without, say, a conure or an African grey in tow. But--they're so awesome. And intelligent and obnoxious and fascinating and my boss has started teasing me for getting all excited whenever we end up boarding a big bird.

And yes, I have pulled some April Fools pranks slightly less lame than rickrolling musicals.net, but they're all IRL. My mom TP'd the hallway between my room and my brother's and then laughed like a loon when we each blamed it on the other. XD But I got my revenge: I baked a completely normal spice cake and left it in the kitchen with "Happy April Fools Day!" written in icing on it. The suspense made a much better prank than anything I could actually have done to it.

I'm totally tempted to go audition for this. Looks like it'll be fun and fairly low-key, which is good because it would be my first audition for any non-school show. Now I just need to spend the next ten days agonizing needlessly over preparing 16 bars of operetta. Which shouldn't actually be too hard--yay for being in the Mikado my last semester--but I'm rusty. ;)

Went up to NY on Saturday--for the first time since January--to see Jeff in SITPWG. Which is a great show, but it didn't really grab me--honestly, I was just there for Jeff, and to hang out fangirling with mmebahorel and lady_iphigeneia. Jeff is adorable; he came out the stage door before the show to say hi and was bouncing up and down and dancing with excitement that he got to go on. ♥ Also adorable onstage, at the stage door post-show, with Nikki, and just in general. Jess and I drove up together and spent the whole four or five hours chattering about fannish things, then more over a lunch of utterly delicious hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese food, and then over dinner with Jenn, and then we went to Starbucks and geeked out for about four hours before somebody finally noticed the time. I somehow managed to lose my voice during all this chatter, and wound up singing along to the PRC in baritone register on the way home. Oooops.

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[srevans.livejournal.com]

completely normal spice cake and left it in the kitchen with "Happy April Fools Day!" written in icing on it

WHOLE NEW LEVELS OF MIND-BENDING IRONY

I approve; the roommates also approve. lols all around. :D

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

If you might be living in an apartment/condo in the future, just be careful you don't get a screamer. Birds are great, but you might want to wait until you have some stability. (I know, I know, it sucks.)

Greys aren't so bad with screaming, but they're increeeeedibly neurotic. Conures, I believe, are known screamers. By all means, do NOT get a cockatoo unless you have your own house and can tolerate lots of screaming. Seriously. Cockatoos are great in their own way, but pretty much ALL of them scream. :-P And there are people here who can attest to the, erm, volume they can produce.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh man, at the store we just finished boarding a gorgeous little cuddle-slut of a sun conure--who liked my shoulder so much that she screamed whenever I tried to get her to step off. My poor eardrums. XD (But so far I think the lovebirds win the Earsplitting Award. Not for sheer volume, but wow, talk about a migraine-inducing pitch.) We've never had a cockatoo come through, though, and most all of my experience with birds is from the ones we sell or board at the store.

And yeah, Simon, the grey who gets boarded with us a few times a year, is usually pretty quiet--except when he decides it would be fun to mimic the alarm. ;) Slightly neurotic, but I adore him so, and there's a good chance that if I do eventually get a bird it will be a grey.

[dividingday.livejournal.com]

African greys are beautiful birds; my friend had one and he was wonderful. Apart from holding an inexplicable grudge against me and squealing like a factory whistle whenever I got within 50 yards from him, of course xD Everything else was just peachy.

[brouhaha.livejournal.com]

You rickrolled musicals.net? Or did they rickroll everyone?

[in-a-greenhouse.livejournal.com]

African greys are sweet. But they're also a big commitment, since they live a looong time.