Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: happy
  • Music: Nightmare Before Christmas, "This Is Halloween."

Ten good things about today.

10. It's Friday! And that means that tomorrow is Saturday, which further means that it's finally time for me to have a book event at the Other Change of Hobbit! Conveniently located next to Ashby BART, spacious, and full of neat things, this is one of my favorite bookstores. You should totally come.

9. Karen Healey (I know, right?) has a poll for the best moment of WorldCon 2010/Aussiecon IV, and yes, my squeaky acceptance of the Campbell Award is currently in the lead. Which is the sort of thing that makes me blink and cry a little. But in the good way, I promise! Also, John Scalzi licking stuff.

8. After our horrible "oh crap the house is full of fleas" experience this summer, everything seems to have settled down. Alice's belly-fur is growing back, no one's trying to claw their own flesh off, and our strict regimen of flea powdering the carpets and pouring poison on the cats is keeping the blood-suckers away. Thank the Great Pumpkin.

7. SHARKTOPUS! Tomorrow night on SyFy! Because Coyote loves me and wants me to be happy.

6. By the same measure, have you seen Jane Austin's Fight Club? Because seriously, this video is love. (Technically safe for work, if you're allowed to watch videos at work and feel like doing some potentially awkward explaining about why all those girls are smacking the crap out of each other.)

5. Resident Evil: Afterlife actually doesn't suck. I know, I'm as surprised as you are. Sort of tickled, too, but mostly just surprised. It's not as good as Resident Evil: Apocalypse, but then, what is?

4. Jean Grey is still dead.

3. Things that are back on the air: Glee, Fringe, Big Bang Theory, Bones, and America's Next Top Model. Things that have managed to stick the landing in their season finales: Rizzoli and Isles, Leverage, Unnatural History, and Warehouse 13. Things that make me happy: watching too much television.

2. Despite my currently perennially delayed posting schedule (curse you, Australia, and your lack of Internet), the latest iteration of the Traveling Circus and Snake-Handling Show went well, and we all had a fantastic time. Plus, the bookstore now has signed books, and that makes everything wonderful.

...and the best thing about today...

1. Welcome to fall.

What's awesome about your Friday?
Tags: cats, comic books, good things, horror movies, in the wild, post-con, support local bookstores, this is halloween, too much tv, where's seanan, wild adventures, zombies
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jacylrin

September 24 2010, 17:02:40 UTC 6 years ago

My large hermit crab (Hera, the one pictured with Rosemary and Rue in http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e257/Jacylrin/20091129hera2.jpg ) survived molting, which makes me happy. This morning I noticed that there was a tunnel reaching the surface from where she had dug down to molt (under the water dish), so I picked up the water dish, and was thrilled to see movement in Hera's shell. I moved Hestia out of the burrow so Hera can finish eating her old exoskeleton in peace.

This afternoon/tonight we buy the 11 year old new pointe shoes and make pumpkin pie.

seanan_mcguire

September 27 2010, 14:38:23 UTC 6 years ago

Om nom exoskeleton nom.

Is dying during molting common?

jacylrin

September 27 2010, 15:19:51 UTC 6 years ago

Apparently, yes, as it is a physically stressful thing to shed ones only hard bits and wait for the new coating to harden, plus it depletes the calcium. It's also apparently common for other crabs to kill the molting one while it's squishy, but Hestia was nice and left Hera alone until she was already hardened and resting in her shell. At least I've read that these things are common, but mine have done just fine. Still, it is disconcerting when you can't find your hermit crab because it's buried itself to molt, and you can't do anything but basically wait until it reemerges--or the tank starts smelling fishy, which would indicate death. It can take a couple of months for some crabs' molting process, from digging in to coming back out. Mine take a few weeks, it seems. Going digging for them while they're molting could be stressful for them, though, so as long as the tank doesn't smell fishy, I leave them be and wait.

seanan_mcguire

September 29 2010, 20:38:01 UTC 6 years ago

That's fascinating. Thank you!