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I found Ryan's beloved chicken (a birchin bantam cochin) Cochin Bobochin dead on the floor of the henhouse just about fifteen minutes ago. It appears she died recently, and upon examining her I haven't much of a clue what she died from--she was not dehydrated, thin, not a single speck of blood or other injuries on her, missing no feathers, nothing. She was only two years old, too. :( The only thing I can think of is egg binding, which is a possibility as that's one way hens can go quickly with few signs beforehand. Regardless, it's sad and I'm really going to miss having her around. She was a wonderful bird and one I adored. Rest in peace, Cochin Bobochin. I'll miss you. It'll be so strange without her there... ;;

In happier news, my wildlife rehab group's new intake center just opened today! We had a grand opening party this evening and it was lots of fun! The center looks WONDERFUL thanks to everyone's hard work and we got quite a few members of the public coming in and out. It was nice seeing our education birds again (we have Gaia the Peregrine Falcon, Tecumseh the Red-Tailed Hawk, Oliver the Western Screech Owl, Chester the Great Horned Owl, Winston Churchill the American Crow (though he wasn't here today), and several educational bats that Corky keeps) as well as many of the members of our group, and there was free food and raffles and all kinds of fun things to do. I got to watch Corky feeding the baby bats, too--they're so cute! Linda is taking my only remaining quail and releasing it tomorrow. The quail with head trauma passed away yesterday, and the little quail's friend passed away as well, so the lone quail needs to get out to a covey before it gets depressed from loneliness. Anyway, I'm really excited about the intake center and I hope getting it running smoothly works out well... I'll be bringing a chicken (as well as some dead "freezer birds," as we call them) in Monday to use in demonstrations for the new rehabbers. I wish I could hang around and help, but when there's a Yoko Kanno concert to go to, one has to make decisions.

Speaking of which, I have lots of mad planning to do the next few days before leaving for Anime Expo/Japan... orz Will be doing as much as I can the next few days to get ready, but honestly I'm a little stuck on what exactly I need to do planning-wise! Ahh, well, I'll figure it out. I can start packing, and I figure I need to do research on transportation, touch up a bit on my Japanese, talk to Gin about various things, arrange to meet with people (including GAINAX), and so on. Again, I ask for advice on what preparations I need to be doing for an international trip for those of you who have been abroad! If you have any ideas of things I might overlook, any help would be appreciated!

I'm having fun with the new Haruhi season. It's nice to have Haruhi to look forward to every week again--it's been a long time! I have absolutely no deep or interesting or insightful comments to say about it at the moment, so I will have to do that another time. Nonetheless, it's enjoyable having it back. :D

I suppose that's all for now. As would be expected, I've been very very very busy lately... @___@;

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I found Ryan's beloved chicken (a birchin bantam cochin) Cochin Bobochin dead on the floor of the henhouse just about fifteen minutes ago. It appears she died recently, and upon examining her I haven't much of a clue what she died from--she was not dehydrated, thin, not a single speck of blood or other injuries on her, missing no feathers, nothing. She was only two years old, too. :( The only thing I can think of is egg binding, which is a possibility as that's one way hens can go quickly with few signs beforehand. Regardless, it's sad and I'm really going to miss having her around. She was a wonderful bird and one I adored. Rest in peace, Cochin Bobochin. I'll miss you. It'll be so strange without her there... ;;

In happier news, my wildlife rehab group's new intake center just opened today! We had a grand opening party this evening and it was lots of fun! The center looks WONDERFUL thanks to everyone's hard work and we got quite a few members of the public coming in and out. It was nice seeing our education birds again (we have Gaia the Peregrine Falcon, Tecumseh the Red-Tailed Hawk, Oliver the Western Screech Owl, Chester the Great Horned Owl, Winston Churchill the American Crow (though he wasn't here today), and several educational bats that Corky keeps) as well as many of the members of our group, and there was free food and raffles and all kinds of fun things to do. I got to watch Corky feeding the baby bats, too--they're so cute! Linda is taking my only remaining quail and releasing it tomorrow. The quail with head trauma passed away yesterday, and the little quail's friend passed away as well, so the lone quail needs to get out to a covey before it gets depressed from loneliness. Anyway, I'm really excited about the intake center and I hope getting it running smoothly works out well... I'll be bringing a chicken (as well as some dead "freezer birds," as we call them) in Monday to use in demonstrations for the new rehabbers. I wish I could hang around and help, but when there's a Yoko Kanno concert to go to, one has to make decisions.

Speaking of which, I have lots of mad planning to do the next few days before leaving for Anime Expo/Japan... orz Will be doing as much as I can the next few days to get ready, but honestly I'm a little stuck on what exactly I need to do planning-wise! Ahh, well, I'll figure it out. I can start packing, and I figure I need to do research on transportation, touch up a bit on my Japanese, talk to Gin about various things, arrange to meet with people (including GAINAX), and so on. Again, I ask for advice on what preparations I need to be doing for an international trip for those of you who have been abroad! If you have any ideas of things I might overlook, any help would be appreciated!

I'm having fun with the new Haruhi season. It's nice to have Haruhi to look forward to every week again--it's been a long time! I have absolutely no deep or interesting or insightful comments to say about it at the moment, so I will have to do that another time. Nonetheless, it's enjoyable having it back. :D

I suppose that's all for now. As would be expected, I've been very very very busy lately... @___@;