Rodent-Friendly.

I'm going to play around with fonts.  Because I'm that bored right now.  Look, I can even do colors.  What larks.
 
I have decided that more of my friends need to keep blogs.  Not because I want all of my friends to be huge nerds, but more because I want to know what is going on in their lives.  Yes, I have heard of the invention known as the "telephone" and even the new "email" phenomena.  The thing is...I have always been horrible at keeping in touch with people...even people that I love.  If you are ever so inspired to keep me updated and entertained Blogger is a short click away.
 
Anyway, yesterday a girl in the adjacent room found a mouse.  I have never been one to understand the fear of mice: they are little and skittish and really very cute.  I can understand the fear of rats as they are more aggressive and might actually bite you if they feel threatened...but mice?  Harmless.
 
Apparently I'm the only person on my floor that feels this way, so while I crawled around the floor looking for this mouse to let it go, everyone else perched on chairs in the hallway.  Sadly, I never found the mouse and can only hope that it found its way out to a more hospitable environment.
 
Speaking of which: there are the weirdest squirrels here.  I'm not sure if I've actually mentioned them yet -- I'm much too lazy to fact check my old posts -- but I swear that they are crossed with rats.  They are black and have very thin tails...in fact I would say that they were rats, except for the fact that they are everywhere and they don't seem to be nocturnal.  There is one rat-squirrel in particular that lives right outside my dorm who is completely black but has a red tail.  It's very bizarre.  So bizarre that I aim to have it photographed and posted by the end of the week.  I don't care if people sitting outside the dorm smoking cigarettes think I'm that crazy lady taking pictures of wild rodents.
 
Is the rat-squirrel a native species of New York?