Tokyo Tofu

….Geordi!

Yeah, I’ve actually had her for over a month now, and haven’t written about it. I actually haven’t writen about much of everything. I could say I’ve been really busy with classes, or midterms are killing me, but the truth is that I’m lazy.

But seriously, another reason that I haven’t written about her yet, is she hasn’t really had a name until now. In fact, I can’t even say for certain that her current name will remain her permanent name (though I’m trying really hard to make it stick). See, first her name was Frida (after Frida Kahlo), which I kinda liked but after maybe 2 weeks of calling her that, I was more liable to call her ‘Black Pig’ than Frida. So it was then changed to Fudge, but once we started calling her Fudgie, it sounded just like Fuji, so that was scraped as well. Next her name was suggested as Lucy, but I didn’t really care for it. Since I’ve had a guinea pig with a Lord of the Rings character name, I pondered maybe a Star Trek name for this new one (yeah I know, I’m a geek). So first came Darmok (which I’m not gonna even bother to explain, if you know what I am referring to then just say to yourself in your head “Darmok and Fuji….at the waterbottle”), but now we’ve settled on Geordi, and so far it seems to be fitting.

Some interesting info on Geordi, this is the first guinea pig that I’ve bough from a breeder. I drove down to Plymouth, MI to the house of a woman who raises guinea pigs for show, and who happened to have a male and a female all black American short haired, a variety of guinea pig that I’ve been wanting to buy for quite a while. When I bought her, she was 7 weeks old, and when I got to their house I was informed that her birthday was July 31! So yes, I think it must have been fate… So far she and Fuji are getting along great, despite a week of Fuji acting like the dominant pig towards Geordi, who still tears around the tank when you try to pick her up, but is starting to calm down a little bit. Her nails are still insanely sharp though!!