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*tell Muse what Lady Teaspoon is up to: busyness of some sort, but am not sure exactly what*
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
<Explains that RA didn't do the gene splicing right. Everyone knows no proper gene-splice can be performed correctly without lots of glass tubing with colorful smoking liquids, big coils in the background shooting off sparks, and a healthy amount of maniacal laughter.>
<Wonders why "Gene Splicing for Dummies" didn't cover this in chapter one.>
<Puts up treehouse completion barometer (you know, like the ones you get for church roofs) which is at roughly three quarters full>
<Reworks treehouse budget, and adds 273 galleon, 42 Kyat, 5 Fretzers and a ha'penny for Mad Scientist Lab (Fully Furnished w/ working E-Gore) and 94 Dollarpounds, 32 Quatloos and 2 knurts for environmentally friendly glowing green paint>
<Wonders how he's going to get the treehouse onto the tree>
<wonders if anyone has noticed that the tree floated away in the last flood and is currently downstream and being turned into a condo by some yuppie beavers>
<plants a small sapling>
<looks at sapling>
<looks at sapling some more>
<sellotapes a small green Monopoly house to the sapling>
<votes herself head of environmental impact study>
<immediately starts making shady deals with all creatures around the tree house issue>
<Declares an inter-species war, all the creatures against all the humans for the rights to the tree house yet to be built and at least one dark blue square on a monopoly board>
<declares self to be half-choa, so that creatures she lead into battle don't attack her>
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland