He can tear out a back page of the notebook and hand her the pen.

She secures a surface to write on and starts drafting up what looks like a skeleton org chart, muttering to herself as she goes.

"Okay, 1-2 biologists who'd be interested in monster bio... Hmmm, I think Amanda, Molly S, and Wander are my top picks there? Okay, email, text, text... One of the Alex/Bens for policy, I'll start with Ben R and go down the list, they're all super busy right now I think? and hmmm... business students I think would be fine for this... Kylie W., Jin, Harper? In that order."

This will keep her occupied for a while! She wiggles against Haru happily as she works.

"Tess might be good for something in admin," Haru volunteers, "though I've also considered grabbing her as a PA."

Oooh, a Haruperson to learn about! She flips around to hug him again, relishing the increased skin contact.

"Who's Tess?"

"One of my zillion people I call on the phone. She was a blog commenter first, posts as 'cricket's_biggest_fan'."

"Oh neat! Is she a student here? I was going to see if I could get this set up as a formal thing run by the school - get everyone involved class credit and some school / research funding for it, which - " 

She trails off and looks at her phone, and then perks up.

"Oh, sweet, Prof Meadows thinks this is totally workable! She CC'd a few different professors in the relevant departments. I'll keep you posted, but this is looking very possible so far."

She clings more tightly to his back, wiggling happily.

"Tess goes to Waterloo, alas."

"That might be doable but it sounds like more effort, and also I'd rob you of your PA lead." 

She kisses him on the cheek.

"Is the university really set up to establish a zoo? Seems like a weird thing for a university to do."

"I'm not sure! But it's definitely set up to run a small nonprofit to research monster zoo feasibility, and from there if things look good they can hire full-time staff to establish and run it wherever looks good. Organizational scaffolding!"

"I think it might have to be kind of far away from things."

"I think so too! ...If you have preliminary notes, I can forward them to the people looking at running this, I'll definitely link them your blogpost about monsters once it's up and I'm guessing they'll want to talk to you pretty early on... I know at least Wander reads your blog, she retweets your posts fairly often."

"My notes are too preliminary to see the light of day at the moment but I can neaten them up."

"Don't feel too rushed! This is still very early days." Ohhhh she's having a bunch of fun with this! (If it wasn't obvious in her voice, she's doing her happy wiggles about it.)

"It'll be really nice to have a monster zoo one day, my power set is pretty good for catching them but they can be so hard to place."

"It seems like it'll be a really cool thing to exist! I'm excited to do a little bit to hopefully help make it happen."