Fifth Floor Common Room; Early Sunday Evening [ 02/15 ].

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle had decided that she didn't want to take any chances and have something weird happen to her on the way to radio because she was going all over the place, so she was going to play it safe and just hang out a while in the common room. She had with her a very healthy dinner of sugary cereal seasoned with sugar and with chocolate milk instead of regular milk, and sunk comfortably in the cushions of the couch with the bowl in her lap and her feet up on the coffee table. The TV was on CNN, and she was having maybe way too much heckling the commentators.

"That's stupid!" she informed one guy. "And you're old, anyway."

It was, she felt, very good radio prep.


[[ I've spent almost all day away from the computer and now wants to plaaaaaay. Open! ]]

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[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Less risk of turning into someone and getting married?" Ned teased. "This weekend has been relatively weird free. It's almost refreshing."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle made a face at the getting married quip, but it was one teasing Ned right back. "It was; thankfully, these things come in waves, so there's always a recovery period."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I hope you haven't just jinxed us to an unending wave of weirdness because of that," Ned said, wincing. "I can make due with the giant hat on my head but if I grow a tail or suddenly turn into an ostrich, I might have to ban you from pies."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Aw, you'd be a cool ostrich, Ned!" Turtle insisted with a chuckle. "And those don't sound too bad either, you know. Or maybe I've just been at this school waaaay too long."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I'd be the ostrich that sticks my head in the sand and stays there until the weird passes," Ned replied but then frowned. "But, if I did that, I'd turn back into myself with my head in the sand and that might be dangerous."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...how do ostriches breath with their heads in the sand, anyway?" Turtle asked, because, clearly, that was the important matter here, not Ned's possible death from drowning in sand.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I...don't know," he said, frowning upon realizing that. "Maybe they have...another place they breathe out of? Or they can breathe sand?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Uuugggh." Giggling a little,Turtle started to rub her nose with her palm just thinking about it. "That'd be so weird!"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Well, they have to be able to breathe somehow," he said and laughed. "I have never actually seen an ostrich stick its head in the sand though so maybe that's all a myth?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Well," Turtle chuckled, "when you turn into one, you can tell me all about it later."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"You're not wishing that on me, are you, Turtle?" Ned asked, suddenly paranoid that he was going to become an ostrich.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Of course not, Ned," Turtle assured him with a slightly apologetic smile. "But you're talking to a girl who's turned into a turtle more times than she'd like to admit. Sometimes the animal thing just seems inevitable."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Do you suffer any...after effects from that?" Ned asked, curious. "Kaylee was an animal once too and she slept on my shoulder."