these two made me go on a scavenger hunt to find my manatee. the first thing i said before i left the room was, “it better not be somewhere in the room like under your bed, megan!”

one guess where it was.

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i saw hairspray with stabby last night after work. it’s was really excellent, i’m such a sucker for musicals, especially funny ones (i bought chicago on dvd today at record archive). it was also adorable. we sang a few of the songs from it in chorus, which made watching it even more awesome.

thanks to a livejournal friend, i now own “mink car” by they might be giants! so now i have 12/13 of their full-length studio albums (i still need “long tall weekend,” so if you have it, let me know). i’ve been listening to it all day and it’s completely awesome. it’s generally not a favorite among fans, but i love it. my favorite songs so far: “man, it’s so loud in here,” “wicked little critta,” “she thinks she’s edith head,” and “working undercover for the man.”

liz is home! she brought me back a giant manatee stuffed animal named charlie. i’ll post a photo of him when liz gives me my camera back (which may never happen, actually).

i spent most of today thinking it was thursday, so that was fun.

dinah and i are currently having a manatee war on facebook. in chorus dinah changed “phantom of the opera” on the smart board to “phantom of the MANATEE.”

i responded on her facebook with the following musical titles, each in a separate wall post: (1) fiddler on the MANATEE, (2) beauty and the MANATEE, (3) MANATEE, the musical.

dinah retorted with: (1) MANATEE in wonderland, (2) peter MANATEE, (3) lady and the MANATEE, (4) the MANATEE king, (5) 13 going on MANATEE, (6) pirates of the MANATEE, (7) MANATEE gump.

and i just responded with, (1) the MANATEE and i, (2) the musicMANATEE, (3) harry potter and the order of the MANATEE, (4) spiderMANATEE, (5) the sisterhood of the traveling MANATEES, (6) a series of unfortunate MANATEES, (7) MANATEES on ice.

comment with more that you can think of, i need to build up my arsenal.

2 things to say today:

(1) NEW HP COVERS RELEASED: HERE

(2) save the manatees! i think i need to make a manatee tag now.

MY NEW FAVOURITE ANIMAL IS A MANATEE.

it all started a few weeks ago when in multi-lit we had to compare things to existentialism. one of the things we chose to compare was a manatee (existentialism is like a manatee because it’s becoming big and lame and becoming extinct). so in chorus when jenny was improving on the piano and asked for something to sing about, i of course said, “manatees!” so she sang about manatees and going to sea world and such. we did it again the next rehersal.

then i decided i’d do my endangered species art project on manatees.

and after singing about manatees in chorus one day, i remixed a song we are learning with the lyrics, “how can i, can i, can i, keep from, keep from, keep from, keep from, loving, loving, loving, loving, manatees, manatees, manatees, manatees.”

on the trip to disney world, we passed a shed and dinah asked what was in there, and i said, i dunno, a manatee? so then every time we passed a pond or dinah would say to me, “hey lan, that’s where they are.” and i’d say, “yes, definitely.”

then today in chorus jenny improved again, but this time dinah and i both took turns making up the lyrics and doing backup vocals. so it was pretty much amazing.

i’ve decided we should start a band and call it “save the mantees.” we’d record a demo and then every time we played a live show we’d take turns between lyrics and backup vocals, with jenny on the piano. and perhaps liz and stabby and lina could join. and we’d have t-shirts too.