I guess I never mentioned it, but early on in April, my little sister, Gillian, got a hamster. She always wanted one, even though she knew they aren't the easiest pets to play with. She bought the hamster that she saw huddled in the cage corner, not getting her turn on the wheel, thinking that the other hamster's weren't letting her. We were at PetsMart (PetSmart?) for an appointment for Xander, because he had been throwing up a lot (and I cleaned it up almost every frakking time), and she saw the hamster, called my mom, and begged. She paid with her own money, and named her Diana, after the Roman Goddess of the Hunt, Moon, and Protector of Maidens. She thought Artemis sounded a bit too weird, and wanted to go with the more modern, human name Diana.

Gillian didn't realize that you're not suppose to play with a hamster immediately, so when we got home that's what she did. And I don't blame her, that thing was adorable. And Diana did seem to like Gillian, as much as a recently domesticated rodent can love a new human. Really.

A few weeks later, we had a little health scare with her. Gillian started freaking out when she saw symptoms of wet-tail disease in Diana, which is very serious and often fatal. Gillian felt incredibly guilty, blaming herself. We rushed her to the only vet around that would treat hamsters, but turns out it was only a mild, treatable infection.

Gillian was very responsible with giving Diana her medicine, but one day she didn't have time to and so my dad had to do it. If I remember correctly, Diana got out of her cage, with the cat nearby, so my dad panicked, grabbed Diana and held her tight. This of course terrified Diana and she bit my dad's finger deep and hard, my dad accidentally threw her. She survived all of this, but once she got back in her caged, she stayed in the wheel and was too scared to come out. From then on, my sister was too scared to play with Diana anymore. She tried giving her the medicine, but it didn't always work. But the infection passed.

Gillian checked up on Diana every day, made sure she had food and water, but other than that left her alone. Diana seemed perfectly content just running franticly in her wheel every night. She neglected to clean the cage, though.

But a couple of nights ago, Diana died. Gillian didn't tell any of us until yesterday when my younger brother Cole asked if she checked up on her. I think she felt guilty and too embarrassed to tell us. God, that just breaks my heart.

R.I.P. Diana the Hamster.

A.K.A., The Alice/Bella Twilight Femslash Rec Post #1!! (By the way, if you're interested, the subject line comes from the song "Shameless" by Ani DiFranco. Awesome song.)

Can't stand Edward "ZOMFG HOTTEST VAMP EVARZ" Cullen and his abusive treatment of Bella? Think Jacob is sweet and all, but is too much of a baby when it comes to Vamps to maintain a stable relationship with Bella? Don't really even give a shit about Mike, Tyler, and Eric, none of whom Bella will give the time of day, and SMeyer didn't put any effort into writing anyway? And yet you still read Twilight, looking for the perfect ship, for someone who won't treat Bella like shit?

Let me introduce you to Alice/Bella. Bella needs to wake up, come out, and date Alice already.

All I've got to share now are fanvids.

( We're in a room without a door/And I am sure without a doubt/They're gonna wanna know/How we got in here/And they're gonna wanna know/How we plan to get out/We better have a good explanation/For all the fun/that we had/'Cause they are coming for us, babe/And they are going to be mad/Yeah they're going to be mad at us )


Okay, I think that's enough. And someone should seriously make an Alice/Bella video to "Shameless". Seriously.

I also came across a few Speak/Twilight crossover videos that were interesting. I feel like sharing those, too, but not now.

I WANT TO GO TO PAX AGAIN!!!!!

Hey. Yesterday?

I caught a frakking Coelacanth in Animal Crossing: Wild World yesterday.

In case you don't know, it's the rarest of the rarest of the rarest of rare fish in all three AC games. AND I FUCKING CAUGHT IT!!!

YES!!!

And in the same day, I upgraded my house to one of the last upgrades. (The back room.)

I'm loving my new graduation laptop. I've been playing a bunch of City of Heroes. Anyone on my flist play? I'm not too social in MMORPGs, but I'd be happy to team up with someone I know!

(The Coelacanth is also a real fish, like all creatures in the game... Except Dr. Shrunk...)

OH HEY LEVERAGE IS FILMING IN PORTLAND NOW AND I LIVE LIKE UBER CLOSE TO PORTLAND AND I WANT TO SEE THEM FILM AND MEET HARPER AND CHRISTIAN KANE AND EVERYONE AND WIL WHEATON IS IN TOWN RIGHT NOW FILMING AN EPISODE OF LEVERAGE AND OMG SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Oh, and yesterday Teen Titans was on T.V. for the first time in ages!! I miss Teen Titans.

A FEW MORE THINGS: My mom is addicted to Y: The Last Man. And Scott Pilgrim rocks. (Guess who has been to the comic book store recently!)

Do I need to say it?

All of those, plus cities (day or night), school, grocery stores...

GRADUATING JUNE 10!! YAY!

Thursday, we decided to get a dog.

Saturday, we adopted said dog from the Oregon Humane Society. She is a border collie, and we named her Ella. She is two years old.

She has pooped in a the house a few times.

Ella and Xander (my cat) seem to tolerate each other. So that's good.

Also on Saturday, I had my very last parade EVER (for high school marching band, at least.) The Starlight Parade. It was fun!

But my family couldn't make it because my mom was in intense pain. She and my dad went to the emergency room, and found out she had a kidney stone, but seemed to have passed it before they went to the hospital.

And today, my sister and I went for a walk, with Ella, up to Safeway and the strip mall there. When we were sitting outside of Subway, we heard a bunch of guys yelling at each other, but we couldn't see them. My sister was really scared, and wanted to run. Then she realized she left her phone on the ground, so I ran back to get it, holding Ella's leash, and her collar slipped off. I grabbed the phone, and we got her collar back on and tightened it, and went home.

Yeah. I should get back to homework.

Oh.

My.

Gods.

I LOVED IT SO MUCH!!!

So totally one of the GREATEST comics I have ever read!!! 8D

( Mild Spoilers )

I meant to post this a few days ago, and since then there has been A LOT going on, so my next post will deal with that.

I know this will be like, my third or fourth post on Star Trek in the past few weeks, but I have more coherent thoughts now. Included in this post, n ot in any particular order...

• Ramblings on both the new movie and The Original Series
• Reasons why Star Trek > The Dark Knight
• The possibility of a certain love triangle that I do not want
• Thoughts on Yeoman Janice Rand in TOS and hopes for the character's future in the franchise
• Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) and autobiography, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy
• More... (maybe)

( SPOILERS for Star Trek and The Dark Knight. Possible sexual assault triggers. )

To end on a lighter note, thanks to TV Tropes I am now 100% in love with the idea of a McCoy/Katara team up.

(Some of these tags might be unnecessary.)