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[petrichor_fizz]

Hello everybody! How was everyone's new year? Mine was rubbish, but never mind. Christmas was low-key, but fine. I'm thinking of dropping out of Leeds and re-applying to do Anthropology instead, at Durham or UCL.

Problem is, no science qualification whatsoever, not even a GCSE (long story - nothing to do with my being rubbish at science, which I

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[starlingthefool]

Zombies are the only ones I've ever had nightmares about. So that solves that.

I also think robots are cute. I've watched Iron Giant too many times.

[petrichor_fizz]

Sometimes, at night, when I'm coming in through the back entrance to my building, I make zombie defence plans. I keep one eye on the mirror, so I'll see it coming, and then I calculate how long it will take me to get behind the big metal door if I need to make a run for it. Sometimes I speculate as to whether it's possible to kill a zombie with a key before it bites you (I've decided not).

That all SOUNDS perfectly sane, of course, but to put it in perspective I have no rapist defence plan or psycho killer defence plan.

I've never seen that film! I want to, though; in primary school one of my favourite teachers read us The Iron Man and The Iron Woman, and I loved them both.

[starlingthefool]

You MUST see Iron Giant. If you never seen another animated kids' movie, see Iron Giant. It's... there are no words.

One of the greatest moments I've ever had with my sister was when we were in China, staying at this Tibetan-style house. All of the rooms were on the second floor, walls are stone and plaster, no windows at ground level, and there was a big door with a lock and bolt and everything. I turned to her and said, "This would be exactly the kind of place I'd want to be-"
"In case of a zombie invasion? Yeah, definitely."

Lol, my weirdness is genetic.

[petrichor_fizz]

It's not weird! It's perfectly sensible! We must be vigilant if we are to outsmart not get eaten by the zombies!!

My building's fairly secure. We're on the fifth floor, the windows are up high and the security system is good, BUT there's a roof garden beneath the window - you probably couldn't get up from there, but if you had to jump out of the window you'd have a decent chance of surviving the fall.

Not that I think about this a lot, but...

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MY BUILDING IS TERRIBLY UNSECURE. So many windows!

Buy some rope and tie knots in it to climb down with. 8D

[petrichor_fizz]

I've never been very good at climbing down ropes. Maybe if it were a superfun slide or something, that would be okay.

[starlingthefool]

I'd be screwed. One level house with lots of windows in suburbia. And it almost never drops below freezing. It wouldn't be bad if it were just your normal, everyday apocalypse (there's a garden and an artesian well, not to mention large-ish forests nearby for wood and foraging), but we'd never live through a zombie horde.
Which is why, really, I should just move to Tibet.

I still think that my sister and I are made of win for thinking that at the same time. It's almost too bad there WASN'T a zombie apocalypse while I was in China.

[petrichor_fizz]

Most utterly made of win! My mother was like, "zombies don't exist". And I was like "JUST YOU WAIT MOTHER, COME THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE YOU WILL WISH THAT YOU TOO HAD BEEN IRRATIONALLY PETRIFIED OF ZOMBIES". And she was like, "stop talking to me in capslock".*

*May not have happened.