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| Watching the preflight safety video, I imagined something in every scene being replaced with a dick. The flight attendants demonstrated the proper technique for locking a dick into a dick receiver and then tugging on the dick until the optimum amount of tightness was achieved. There was a stylized image of a dick that indicated that it was okay to use electronic dicks, but a red circle with a line through it appeared over the dick and indicated that it was required that all electronic dicks be turned off and stowed. Dicks came down from the ceiling and passengers put the dicks over their noses and mouths to assist with breathing if cabin pressure were ever to drop. We were instructed to place the dick over our own mouths before attempting to assist other passengers with their dicks. Then a lady put one over a child's mouth and I couldn't help giggling out loud. Under our seats were inflatable dicks, which should inflate automatically, but if not you could blow on the tube to inflate it manually. In a crash landing you could open the emergency doors and dicks would provide you with a safe route from the plane to the ground. In the event of a water landing, those dicks could also be detached and used as flotation devices. So I'm blogging again, which of course means I'm single. I dunno if I'll stick with xanga or do something new. Either way, if my singleness sticks, you can bet that you'll be seeing quite a few posts from me. Before, whenever I saw something throughout the day that was of interest, I would text andi or save it up to tell her when I got home. Since I'm not in a place to do that anymore, the Internet is the next best thing. I guess that means I'm now in a relationship with the Internet! Doesn't actually seem that far-fetched now that I have a smart phone... I share my life with the Internet, go out to eat with the Internet, watch movies with the Internet, spend a lot of quality time with the Internet, have sexy time with the Internet. I make efforts to be around the Internet at all times. Even if we're not doing anything together, I just like to know the Internet is there. I love you, Internet. I want to make half-human, half-Internet babies with you. | | |
| and so the Universe was like, "hey, about your car. did you say you wanted more spiders or less spiders in it? Because I wasn't sure... I remember you said something about spiders and your car. I put more spiders." | | |
| Maybe what I miss most about being a Christian is that whenever it's late at night, I'm all alone and not distracted, and this feeling of profound emptiness washes over me, I could just say "That's supposed to be there, that's the hole in your heart that only God can fill. Don't worry, it'll be filled when you're in heaven."
I don't have that anymore. When everyone I love is asleep, when I've won all the games I can win, when I've watched all of the shows and movies I can stand, there's still a gaping hole in my chest. I can almost literally feel like, right on the edge of my senses. When it's especially strong I'll even move my shoulders in closer to my chest, my torso closer to my legs. If left unchecked, I would end up in the fetal position.
If I'm not constantly doing things to fill this emptiness, I just can't stand to be. It's debilitating sometimes. I'm searching for a vaguely familiar sense of fulfillment, trying to recapture something that I'm sure has only ever existed in my memory.
This is going to sound weird, but I think the answer is children. I feel like if my children are sleeping, I can be content.
As an essential atheist, I believe immortality is achieved through having children. You pass on not only your genes, but a part of yourself to your children, and they will pass it on to theirs, and so on. If humans exist four hundred years from now and your genetic line has gone unbroken, then parts of you are still alive. The care with which you raised your children four hundred years ago, the things you taught them by good example or bad, those will still be making a difference in the future. As far as I'm concerned, children are a religion, and in the values I teach them I will find salvation.
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| if I saw a zombie outside, I would call and wake andi up, tell her to meet me at my isolated and defensible apartment on 2222, bringing clothes for 3 days and also a sweater, and then get jeff to bring his golf clubs while I grab his cleavers (heh). also he has a random huge net that he hits golf balls into, which I think would be useful. I would transfer all the money in my savings account to my checking account, then I'd take my laptop just in case, since it could be useful before the power goes out. I would also grab his bottled water and any other food that would keep and throw it in his trunk. Eh also for the hell of it, I'd bring jeff's collection of bath and bodyworks hand soap. Also, duct tape.
I'd say we should drop by a gas station first (assuming I handled the zombie outside and there weren't a lot more in the vicinity, which there shouldn't be since this is just the beginning). If the gas station seemed safe, I would fill jeff up on gas. I would also go to an ATM and withdraw all the cash I could, to use before it becomes obsolete. If the gas station had a convenience store that was open (doubtful, since it's 5am, but maybe), I would also get those cans that you can fill up with gas. Also I'd pick up any canned food I could get in a hurry. On the way to the 2222 apartment, jeff and I would take turns calling maggie/our families and friends. I would call chris and tell him to get michelle over to the apartment as soon as she could. She's closer to central austin, so it would be more dangerous. Oh also his sister, and jerm's sister if she's in austin at the moment (but I think she's in houston).
Once everyone got to the 2222 place, I would use my laptop to check for nearby grocery, hardware, and sporting good stores. We would split into two teams, (should be jeff, jerm, chris, me, michelle, stephanie, andi, and andi's parents if they want to come). Both teams would arm themselves with golf clubs and head to grocery stores, grabbing as much water, canned food, and first aid stuff as they could find. I think some grocery stores are open at 7am. After running back to the apartment to drop this stuff off, one team would hit up the hardware store for hammers, duct and electrical tape, maybe some (stupid fucking) rope, and other things that could be used as weapons, like maybe an axe, and definitely a bunch of crowbars. The other team would go to the sporting goods store and get any bats, guns, and sweet hunting knives they can, as well as anything else they might find useful (sleeping bags and flashlights/batteries). It might be 9am at this point, so the sporting goods store should be open (academy opens at 8), and hardware stores open at like 6am. On the way to all these places, everyone would be calling everyone they know. Depending on the situation in Dallas, Michael might want to drive down and meet us, in which case we'd pick up him and kat in about six hours.
I'm not sure how these stocking trips would go. Depending on the severity of the infestation in austin, they might go smoothly. There might still be order, though the police would be getting all sorts of calls all around town. A bunch of bitten people would be taken to the hospitals, so hospitals would become nexuses of infestation. There aren't any hospitals near where we would be going, so things should be semi-cool. Might even go the whole morning without seeing anything, and we could just pay for our stuff and leave. But if things are already crazy, then the trips might be extremely difficult. There would either be extremely long lines at the grocery store, or it might already be at the looting phase. It seems like the biggest danger at this time would be other scared people. I guess we'd try to look calm and not draw any attention to ourselves or give other people reason to be scared. Hopefully no zombies or police show up and interfere with the plans.
If things are clear enough, I would also have jeff swing back by his apartment to pick up some board games for when the power goes out. Also if things were cool, I'd say we should make as many trips back and forth from the grocery store as we could. Money shouldn't really be an issue since we could basically spend everything we have, since it won't be worth much soon. Once back at the apartment, I'd probably want to sleep since it'd be way past my bedtime. But before sleeping, I would make sure to set a watch schedule. Our apartment is on top of a hill, and we have a great balcony view. The entire thing is fenced, and our apartment is on the third floor. There's an elevator and stair access from the parking garage or the apartment building itself, but all the stairs are protected by doors. We could barricade these for when things got hot. Then again, this would require the cooperation of everyone else on the floor. It might make sense not to do any of these things. Where we are, the biggest danger would still be other people. It would be hard for many zombies to get up the hill, and 2222 is way out of the way of anything anyways. Most infected people would be in the city, since if they were bitten they would go to the hospital instead of home. Some people might hear and be scared, and these would be the dangerous people. Maybe they were smart and stocked up like us, or maybe they didn't. But either way, when their food runs out, if they haven't run away and they stayed in the apartment complex, they might go door-to-door looting apartments. If they knew that we stocked up, it could become a dangerous situation.
I think we'd be able to stay in the apartment for a while, at least a week. We'd hopefully have enough food for at least a month. We could barricade the front door and go to the bathroom off the balcony once the water stops running. Also we could tie ropes or sheets off the balcony for a fire escape. The balcony is on the opposite side of the apartment than the parking garage, so it would be a good idea to have 2 cars parked in the little office parking lot that's on the balcony side. Life would be difficult crowding 9 to 11 people in one apartment with no electricity or running water. Water would be the main issue if it shuts off. We could maybe rig up something to catch rain off the balcony, but we'd be hard pressed to find a place to store it all, and 10ish people need a lot of water, not counting if anyone wanted to bath. There's a pool closeby, but I'm not sure how bath-worthy that would be after the water stops pumping. What happens to pool water if there's no power or waterflow? Does it just dry up? Does it become poisonous? I should probably figure that out. Anyways, I think jeff's supply of board games would come in handy after a while of being cooped up with no electricity.
I've recently heard someone mention the possibility of heading to Fort Hood, which is about an hour and a half away. Maybe Camp Mabry is closer, but I don't know what kind of facilities they have there. Those might be good ideas, but I think it'd be best to wait in a safe place as long as you could before venturing out. As I said, people are probably more dangerous than zombies, so if you wait a while, the people will get eaten or become zombies. They may want to eat your brains, but they're also predictable. So when it becomes apparent that we'll need to venture out of our little safe haven, I'd say we stop by Camp Mabry first and then go on up to Fort Hood. If there are still people alive after a week or a month, then hopefully those places might be safe and capable of restarting civilization. If those places are ghost towns, then we'd have no choice but to keep moving, finding what food we could somehow. If we ever found a protected farm, we'd try to stay there.
Life seems pretty pointless once the zombie apocalypse starts. Then again, what's the point in the normal world? Live, be happy, have kids, try to make sure they're happy. You could probably do that in a zombie-infested world, though it'd be harder. If andi survives, then that's what I would try to do. If for some reason she didn't make it, I would probably just travel around killing zombies until I messed up and died.
I'm sure I could write more on the subject, but I'm very sleepy. Hopefully the zombies wait till the afternoon to show up so I can be well rested. Maybe I'll write my afternoon version of this when I wake up :P
what would you do?
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