what silly plans do you have if you win the megamillions

what would you do in a fantasy world

I may have whisky in me

but in the spirit of Sol Invictus, let's look to the waxing light and think about good things to come

me, my fantasy is to have enough money banked to spend a year interning at an expat-owned restaurant or bar in Osaka, learning to cook Japanese from experts

it'll never happen, even short-term residency for work in Japan is nearly impossible, but a man can dream

'course if I had 500 million in the bank I'd fuck off to a boat in the Caribbean and you'd never hear from me again but lmao

yeah man if I had forever money I'd just spend all of it and all of my time traveling and helping pay for people to join me

the world is so big and I wanna see so much of it

anyway happy delicious whisky-fueled holidays to you also

mmm if you had millions and could pay me to join you on a team traveling to do science I would be there

YES that would be a very good fun use of money

paid travel and living expenses to come do fun projects

I'll learn Samoan dye techniques while you catalog endangered species

I want everyone I know to get to come see Rota, it is just the most amazing beautiful island there is

we meet back up to compare notes on biological compounds

hahaha yes

or I learn how to read cloud formations for advance tropical storm forecasts, either way

I've been strongly encouraged by my boss to take on a side project that I want to do which is to describe a new spider species I keep seeing out on Rota but like none of us at work are entomologists lmao so I have to ask around to learn... how... to do this

but yeah stuff like this is very possible with my work

oh wow that would be cool, finding an entomolgist to conspire with

all I have are plant people lmao

yeah! there's a spider specialist on guam so I just have to figure out how to kindly word an email like hey... I will do this unpaid if you help me figure out how to do it

since my work will cover my time

omg that would be so cool

I've photographed three spiders out there that he's confirmed are undescribed so like, that's how I know that, I just need to know how to describe them now lmao and one will be easier since I see it more often than the other two

if I see your name on a byline on I Fuckin Love Science I'll know

look at this pretty bronze creature

I have photos of males and females

they're lovely and about thumbnail sized

which is big! even better than something super tiny lmao I can deal with this

whaaa tiny spiderbabies

I say as I spend various days telling Oliver not to eat the spider who's just minding its business in the basement

see because here is one of the others and when they're this small it's just... not convenient to find them lmao

I got lucky this one was on a table

omg it's so small it looks fake

right lmao but very cute if you can zoom in I guess

I'm so glad the internet has helped people see cute spiders instead of scary ones

yes!!

I do have some "scary" spider photos lmao but mostly I think of them as majestic creatures

like if leopards had eight legs

lmao right

I found two really spectacular well-camouflaged pantropical huntsmen last time I was out there and they made me so happy but they are for sure more the kind that freak people out

versus jumping spiders with their big cute eyes and fuzzy teddy bear faces

everyone looking at tigers: I know it will murder me but lookatitspaws

ahaha huntsmen for real, they look so doomspider but they're much nicer than the actual deadly ones

I think that when I see wolf spiders in the garden, like you're not here to fuck with me but you look so scary

this is my favorite huntsman pic I got, definitely a do not click if you do not like spiders, but man I just thought she was so cool, I was looking at this bush to try and find flowers on it for ID and then I did a double take at the "twigs"

such good camo

I got a worse photo of a male, I bumped a leaf and he just vanished, man when they want to leave they bounce so fast and so far, they're nuts lmao

oh wow, super camoflage

If I had money I would take myself and get a phd and never work a soul sucking job again and travel the world but also invest in artists and writers and make programs to help them and things like that. Art museums and writers retreats and little free libraries and stuff

because I am

this way

yes do

that's valuable

which reminds me, I found a bunch of children's books in a bin my mom handed off to me, I should spread them into the little free libraries around here

(there are like...20 in a 2 mile radius)

oohh yes

also sure first step get 5bukkuib dikkars

billion

lmfao

there is a cat in my face makes it hard to fight

ype

type

BABY

i need to clip her back claws cuz she clawed me up (again) jumping on my leg

oh noooo I feel that. Ollie's need clipping too

he likes to sit in my lap but his claws go right through my sock into my ankle

yeah it's hard she doesn't like it but I don't like my leg hurting T_T

yeaaah

love is pain (cats)

yeah

ah well

If I had money again? Once I caught up my bills, and if it was a LOT of money, I'd buy Squeak a new car, send money to the Plurk!needy, buy a couple of houses and get a corgi puppy or three.

Then fund somebody needing funding.

I was gonna say, there better be corgis

Thing is, out of four Cardigan breeders I know of, two of them are paranoid nutcases. So it'd be a task.

(Know of = met in some way.)

hence the value of extra cash to expand your search

god, that billion dollar megamillions

Capsulecorp: NOW I have someone reliable and sane to ask. I mean, the milk names for her last litter were all Mordor-based because the puppies were effectively black.