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We did the bridge walk at the New River Gorge Bridge yesterday! I spent the morning downloading steampunkish music and then the afternoon inching around on rusted metal and bolts and catwalks and the like.



It was awesome and a little scary. All the traffic on the bridge shook the whole structure and the sound was just a roar all the time. And the wind was blowing and the mist was rising and there were falcons cruising around us. Pretty awesome! It took two hours because the group ahead of us was in no hurry, so we spent a long time clinging to the swaying rails just waiting for the herd to move on.

Also, I haven't posted the last two 31_days fics I've done, so here they are: A Last Unicorn and a Watchmen one.

Fic of the Day: Last Unicorn

Fic of the Day:Last Unicorn

This morning, I dragged myself off to the bathroom to wash my face and I had to grin at my reflection. Not only was my bedhead spectacular, but I was wearing a Pirates of the Caribbean medallion, an Elfquest tanktop, and Invader Zim pajama bottoms. No sir, not geeky at all.

Fic for today: The Last Unicorn

So, the cat showed up at 2 am this morning after I had worked myself into a full lather worrying about him. And then I couldn't get back to sleep, so I lurched to work this morning all groggy and weird. We made handprint elephants today. They're pretty cute. (Kid traces own hand on construction paper and cuts it out, thumb becomes trunk, fingers become legs, add a googly eye and a crayon-drawn smile and viola! Elephant!)

On Friday, I came down with my first cold of the school year, and since the hospital is closed on weekends and in this case, on Monday too, I just had to tough it out. My throat was so sore, I considered hurting myself just enough to get into ER and then begging whoever got me to check my throat too. I'm sure I'm not the first one to consider that. Village life is frought with wackiness.

Being in Alaska, we've been tossing around 'Palin as VP' opinions. The phrase "She's a babe." keeps turning up in conversation. And while her environmental and abortion views were discussed, I had the great idea for the compromise of killing fetuses from helicopters. Then everybody's happy. Luckily, I had the good sense not to say that out loud. Sleep-deprived people on lots of cold medication shouldn't enter political discussions.

Two things happened today.

Well, lots of things happened, but the two I'm going to mention are these:

1.) I wrote a ficlet for The Last Unicorn for 31_days. Nothing remarkable, but the idea pinged into my head when I was supposed to be making a lunch and I slammed it out and went to work pleased with myself, even though I had to eat cafeteria sloppy joes.

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2.) We had a fire drill today. In roaring, driving winds that peppered us with snow and ice bits off the roof. With fourteen three year olds, who were freaked out by the fire alarm, and too short to wade through the snow covering the stairs we had to evacuate down. It was like a very low-budget horror movie with the alarm going off, the wind howling, not being able to see for the blizzard whirling around us, calling the childrens' names into the haze, and then seeing these waist-high creatures with wailing banshee faces lurching towards me with outstretched hands. One girl's parka ruff froze to the tears and mucus running down her face. All in all, not our most successful outing.