Sleepytime

Wrote a piece for Demand. As usual, am expecting it to be sent back.

Bird still doesn't have an official name. Everyone I talk to raises an eyebrow when "Juno" comes up, thanks to that damned Diablo Cody movie. I an still considering the ultimate geek name in Captain Juno Gray (Captain Juno Eclipse/Jean Grey) which I'm pretty sure is a horribly cruel moniker to saddle such a cute little bird with.

Other choices:

Calliope (Callie) - she is one of the muses, so that's kinda fitting
Shakti (not Shaak Ti; I am not that SW-obsessive, just always liked the name)
Cutty (Cutty Sark, the famous clipper - age of sail geekgasm)
Munchkin
The list will go on, I'm sure...

Right now I alternate "Juno" with "Honey" and "Little Bird" and "Little Princess" (I could cut out the middleman and just call her 'Leia' ... oh, my mother would freak). It took three tries to finally put her to bed tonight; I had my mother on the phone asking about pellets and the princess began banging on her cage.

Well. Banging is a gentle term. She's in what will become her travel cage, and it's basically built for budgies. Birdlet has figured out that she can fling open the doors. When she wants out (which is always), she grasps the bottom of one of the doors and just bangs it up and down several times. This usually gets her desired result, because I am a pushover. Tonight I didn't instantly bolt over there, so she moved to the middle door - the main door - and reaaaaaaaaaaaallly threw it open, and then hopped up onto the "threshold" but couldn't get out before the door closed. Then she kept doing this. It ended up closing on her feet, but it's very, very light material (which is why she can open it in the first place, sigh) -- it didn't hurt her any, but damn.

I let her back out while I was on the phone. She scrambled all over me and then fell asleep in my hand, and still resisted going back inside.

Yes, she is feisty. Possibly manipulative. But so sweet!