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Today's topic is another one from fishmalk: What's your zombie apocalypse survival plan/strategy?

The sad truth is that I don't *really* have one. My house is not zombie defensible and I don't have anywhere good I could get to safely from there. At work I'd be fine in the short run but again - where would I go? How would I get anywhere? It is hard to plan, really. Ideally I'd like to hook up with a group of folks that wouldn't morally disgust me. I think I could (metaphorically) sell my self pretty well, in terms of post-apocalyptic skills - I have basic survival, I'm good at problem solving, I can build things, I can cook and make things, etc. It's the short term that would bone me, as even when I'm in decent shape (which I'm not currently), I can't run very fast for very long.

So... Yeah, no real plan, other than hold on for dear life, and if that's not gonna happen, make sure I *don't* take too many people with me on the way out. I'm sure there are people out there (Joel) who are Very Disappointed in my lack of planning and preparation, but I think it going to be more to my advantage to be adaptable.

Natalie Portman to star in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (Thanks knight_ander!)

I was going to have a whinge about how i don't want to work, but have this instead it is much more fun ^-^

Someone may have found a way to get me interested in reading a Jane Austen book. fearsclave, you might be in to this also, if you haven't already seen it!

Happy Birthday, Terry, hope you have great day :)

In other news, I thought I would related this little except from an early eighteenth-century travel journal for the zombie curious on my list, as well as those generally interested in death rituals:

This Father further tells us, that is is customary in the Kingdom of Congo for the natives to change their Wives with their Neighbours for a Time, alledging, that they are not always able to live upon the same Diet: And that at the Death of a Person, it is customary for them to kill Hens, and sprinkle the Blood both without and within-side the House, and then throw the Carcasses of the Fowls upon the top thereof, affirming, that thereby they prevent the Spirit of the dead person from coming to give Zumbi to any of the future Inhabitants; the Word Zumbi Signifies the Apparition of the dead Person, they being of Opinion to whomever it shall appear the Person shall presently die. The Ceremony of the hen being ended, they proceed to lament over the dead Corpse; and when they have howled and wept for some time, they all of a sudden pass from Sorrow to the Mirth and feasting, at the Expense of the Person who is nearest related to him unburied. When they have satisfied their Appetites, they soon forget their deceased Friend; then the Drum beats, and they all go to Dancing; and when they are tired with Dancing, they retire promiscuously, Men and Women, into dark Places or Rooms, and practice al manner of abominable Pleasures. When any Master of a Family dies, his principal Wife exposes herself to all that have a mind to enjoy her, on this Condition, that none offer to speak the least Word in her Chamber. They build Huts over their Graves. Thus much for Father Francis de Pavia.

-Natahaniel Uring, A History of the Voyages and travels of capt. Nathaniel Uring, London, 1749.

Do you like zombies?

Do you like, ro are you otherwise familiar with Montreal?

Are you looking for exciting ways to kill time at work, or procrastinate on schoolwork?

Do you like supportinmg people in their creative writing efforts, either in general or in specific during NaNoWriMo?

Do you just like well written, griping, fiction?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, let me diect you to secret_history's highly *highly* excellent novel in progress, Afernoon Snack of the Living Dead (working title) a.k.a. Crisse! des zombies a.k.a. Zombie Crisis.   Very very good.  Highly recommended.  Excellent characterization, of people, zombies, and the city itself.  I would say the best way to read it is to go back to where section 1 is posted in the LJ, and go from there.  I don't know if they are in order or not in the ASotLD memories section.

Anyway, you should seriously read it.

All that, and she has already reached her NaNo quota!  It's only the 9th! 

The golden rule of survival is not to take unnecessary risks for people who aren't going to survive without you anyway.

That said, I am going to finish this page, write up a progress report, and go to bed. Hopefully someone will wake me if the dead rise tonight.