REAL Supervillians wear high heels

Title: Vacation Destination
Pairings/Characters: Methos, Lucifer. Gen.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 530
Spoilers: Up to Supernatural 5.10.
Summary: (Supernatural/Highlander crossover) Bora Bora was very nice this time of year. Carthage, Missouri? Not so much. Especially when you're not dressed for it.


( It quickly became obvious that the mysterious chanting voice was not a product of his own overactive imagination. )

And now the unpacking begins... tomorrow.

I'm still not packed for the move tomorrow. Ahhhhh!

Thank you whoever you are for calling me 14 consecutive times at 4:30 AM.

No love,
Me

It went pretty well. Now I can relax and enjoy the talks tomorrow and finally get caught up on all the emails, lj posts etc. that have been left to linger.

Again. Arg.

I opened the damper so the squirrel can get into the fire place. It is still freaking out in the chimney. I hope I didn't hurt it when I opened the damper. At least I have squirrel removal down to a science once it climbs down.

So, I have come the realization that there is no way in hell I am going to be able to have a draft done for the SPN Crossover Big Bang by the posted date. Between squirrel invasions and marking and surprise visitors, this is my first free day in about a month and I am still attempting to put together a coherent outline which doesn't contradict itself (damn you time travel!). That said, I am going to finish my Twin Peaks/SPN time travel epic. It just might take me a few more months than I'd hoped since Harry alone seems to have acquired a minimum of 20, 000 word story line. Also, he now seems to be sleeping with Dale Cooper. So much for genfic. And let's not even get started with Dean. And evil!Sam who really is doing everything for Dean's own good.

Our cunning plan finally worked. Sort of. He actually went around the barrier we had set up and hid under my bookcase first, but I was prepared this time and was able to easily slide it out of the way. After about 15 minutes of going the wrong direction, he finally went for the open window. Yays!

I have a squirrel stuck in the chimney :(

*headdesk*

Fortunately, it is now the landlord's problem to rescue him/prevent his return. Hopefully he'll get around to putting a screen on the chimney top so that THIS CAN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

UPDATE: Squirrel has left the chimney and is in the fireplace. It is looking at me. And crying in terror. At least I hope it is terror rather than pain since it did fall down the chimney. Landlord came by during his lunch break, couldn't get the squirrel out and said not to do anything and he will deal with it when he comes by again. BUT he then sent an email saying that he is sick and wouldn't be coming tonight as planned. Conflicted and feeling like a horrible person for being cruel to animals. I forced a wet cloth in through a crack so it would have something to drink. Hopefully, landlord will come by tomorrow.

UPDATE 2: It has stopped crying. I think turning the lights off may have reassured him that I am not going to use him for a snack.

UPDATE 3: Landlord came. We attempted to extract the squirrel using a cunning plan that involved heavy cloth propped up to form a barrier, open windows and an abandoned room. This plan was devised after more active methods failed. Still no success. Again tried to use a broom to force the squirrel out into the room. Again, failure. Squirrel is still in the fireplace where he is determined to stay. Cunning plan will be repeated tomorrow after sleep has been had. We were only at this for the past few hours. There will possibly be the addition of a trap rather than leaving the windows open. It is rather cold. Brrrr.

In other news:

I was marking today and, unable to make out what a student was diagramming, turned to one of the guys working in my office to ask his opinion. He tells me that the drawing looks very familiar. He then starts flipping through it and looking at all the diagrams, turns to me and says, "That's my lab. I remember all of these diagrams for when I took this course 3 years ago. I remember saying XXX..." Flips through a few more pages. Sure enough, exactly as he said. So, I have caught another cheating student. Don't have the original lab to prove it, unfortunately. Why can't they just take the time to do it themselves?

So, I come home yesterday and the door on the fireplace is open yet again. All the cleanup I did has been undone. And now I have another squirrel trapped in my room. I left the window open and went out for an hour. I come back. All is quiet. Until...

I hear this frightened squeaking sound coming from behind my bookcase. I'm not even sure I heard anything, but I go up to it, pull aside a box and there sits the squirrel, terror on its features before it runs away in the other direction. I again open the window and begin moving pieces of furniture into the living room. I remove everything that I had stored under my bed and couch, pull aside ruffles so I can see under everything. My roommate arrives. We check under every piece of furniture and there is nothing. So, concluding that it has left and made its escape during the commotion as I was moving everything out into the living room, I go about the rest of my evening. I wash all my bedding yet again so that I feel comfortable sleeping on it. There are no strange noises for the next 12 hours.

Except, I return home today and guess what was still in my room? And who also managed to make his way into the kitchen? And then back to my room. I'm not sure what is so great about my room that it felt the need to stay there when it managed to get run of the entire house.

Turns out there is a tiny, tiny space under the back of my one bookshelf. The one that I thought had a closed back to it so I didn't move the books on it to check. And it was just large enough to accommodate my guest. I grabbed a second roommate this time and we did actually manage to get it out a window. With witnesses so it is most definitely gone.

There is also a very large pile of stuff blocking the fireplace. If one gets in now, it is Super-squirrel and I'm just going to move. This is ridiculous. The landlord is coming tomorrow with a ladder and blocking off the top of the chimney. I'm currently washing everything yet again. Still have to do the clothing from earlier this week, but that is waiting for Saturday. I just don't have the energy right now.

Plus, I was at school for 12 hours today, got home after 9 PM and have to sub in for another TA tomorrow morning since he has some commitment he forgot about when we made the schedule. Why do I have to be nice? Why couldn't I have been a bitch and just said NO?!?

Blah.

OTOH, I actually have an idea for SPN crossover big bang so I may sign up. Currently torn between Dexter and Twin Peaks. If I manage to get an outline put together this weekend, I'll go for it. Fortunately, I have until March to sign up so I can do it later after all this excitement has passed.

As some of you know, I have a rather awesome fireplace in my room. This does, however, have its downside. I came home today and found a huge squirrel freaking out from being locked in. Given the amount it managed to chew out of the window frame it had probably been here for hours. It killed my portable modem by chewing through the wires. There really isn't anything left of the screen or the blind for the one window. Also knocked a bunch of things about in my room and chewed up my good leather glove which had been sitting on the side table. Fortunately, I had moved my TV from the table at the window to my desk in order to use it as a computer monitor or it would probably have been destroyed also. Isn't really that much soot on the floor considering, but I have a feeling that my landlord won't be pleased when he sees it tomorrow.

I tried to herd it out the open window. Of course, this failed. It kept running and hiding under my bed, or under my couch. Recruited one of my roommates since I thought that he might be able to act as a guard and get the squirrel to go for the window instead of the various bits of furniture as I scared it out from under the bed. There is nothing like sharing your dirty laundry which has been strewn over the entire floor by said animal, underwear and all, but at that point I did not care. The squirrel was so panicked by then that he didn't even seem to care where we were standing and just ran over our feet, dive bombing for chairs and bookshelves.

Finally, we just left the window open and I paced around the kitchen for a 1/2 hour. It seems to be gone. I hope.

Yays!

( The OC Transpo Strike Song )
I pass this along because I needed to laugh about it before I cried from frustration.

My old desktop which has served me faithfully for so long seems to be in the process of giving up the ghost. So, no internet for me at home for a while.

On the plus side, however, I now have the perfect excuse to buy that new computer that I have been eyeing.

I'm back home with internet access. Have yet to catch up on what everyone has been posting, but I hope everyone has had a good holiday season. Especially those of you who had to work and find various means of transportation!

My parents called me up this morning and asked if I was too busy for them to come visit. We went out for the afternoon which was fun, though I think my dad was a bit bored while my mother and I went clothes shopping. They've just headed out again to make the trek home. So, I enjoyed the spontaneous visit. Didn't make much progress on my term project, but it was a fun way to procrastinate.

Yelling at me for giving you zero on your discussion when you DIDN'T INCLUDE ONE that INVOLVED SENTENCES is not going to improve your grade. I don't care how hard you worked on the lab. After that, puppy eyes aren't going to cut it. Sure, go to the prof. It isn't going to help you.

Strangely, no other students have had problems about their grade after I explained to them why I took marks off. I'm sorry that grades are based on your answer and not on the effort, but I'm afraid that that's how things work after you leave high school.

I'm marking labs so that I can go out tomorrow and Sunday. Yes, on a Friday night. No long tirade this time but...

Shake Joe!!!