Showing posts with label looks like rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label looks like rain. Show all posts
Well it's raining again guys and you know what that means: postification!
Tuesdays are the days when I spend all day at the lab. And today at the lab, we had our last lab class, which I don't actually attend since I learned a lot of the stuff when I worked there last the summer. But what I do attend to is the food that they sometimes bring in (Yummyz!). And today, since it was the last class, they brought in danishes (Über-yummyz!)
I ate not one, not two, but five (Three, sir!) three tasty danishes. The last one I ate in the rain while walking back from the lab. Mmmm. Rain danish. I feel like eating danishes in the rain with your sleeve-guarded hand blocking the pastry from getting wet should be one of those little things in life that we don't really appreciate until we can't do it anymore. Like if one day we woke up and there were no more danishes, or no more rain, or no more ability to eat and walk at the same time. I would miss that last one most of all...
Actually that's why I appreciate the rain, since Maryland (at least the part that I live in) has been in a drought since I moved their (Sorry guys, it was my fault) and I think we've only just gotten out of it. Or we got out of it for a year and then were hit with another drought. So when it rains every weekend for several weeks, while others may get all bent out of shape about it, I choose to see it as a good day for the trees and for future us since our fields will yield delicious comestible harvests. And in the meantime we can use the dreary weather as an excuse to catch up on indoor things we've been putting off. Like cleaning.
Nice try, subconscious. I'm not cleaning anytime soon.
As my last point for this blog, you know how everyone's always saying (or at least everyone I talk to), if only life had a control-alt-delete function, or some other function computers can do. I have found the ultimate function our live's need; our ultimate thneed if you will. Ctrl + f. I needed to find sooooooo many forms at the lab today, and because people don't know how to sign their names legibly it was taking me forever. And how many other times have I spent hours looking for my German book (which SOMEBODY held on to but didn't tell me) or my cellphone that's fallen down the crack behind my bed, or some other object that has been misplaced. If only I could press a little mental Ctrl button followed by a little mental F key, and have the thing I'm looking for pop up right in front of me, I would save so much time, which I could then pass on to doing more productive and less frustrating things.
If only we did live in the Matrix.... *sigh*
I seem to be posting when it rains. What does that mean, psychologically-speaking?
0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 2:38 PMIt's a shame more people don't read my blog thus making that monetization thing more profitable for me (Wee money! Yay capitalism!) since I mention a product in practically every post. And the product for today's post (I think this might become a thing):
Annie's Howngrown Cheddar Bunnies!
I was skeptical when my mom first introduced me to Annie's macaroni, but now I'm hooked! Or pretty close to being hooked! I've never eaten their cheddar bunnies before. Just wait a moment while I crack open my crisp new box and try a bunny-sized bite.
Noticement 1: (Actual Cheddar) Tastiness
Noticement 2: Not as crackilicious as Pepperidge Farm crackers
Noticement 3: Holy crap the bag inside is actual full!!
Conclusion: 2 out of 3 ain't bad
Dude. Annie's has so many products. Fruity bunnies, chocolate and vanilla bunnies, bunnies you can cook, bunnies that are already cooked. I've gotta eat 'em all (guess what game I'm currently playing?!)
Final Off-Topic Note: Is anyone else getting kind of excited for the Star Trek movie? And thinking that The Simpson's episode this week is pretty darn good?
Musings Regarding Past Musings on Earthworms and Further Earthworm Suicides
0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 9:16 PMUtterances which make use of a certain number of words, particularly if said words are in some way unsual, either in use or in make, and which could just as easily be written using a less than certain number of words, particularly if these new words are more commonly used in the daily vernacular, are of great delight to this blogger. Which is how I came to read the book "From the Mixed Up Tales of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." It's a good book; all should read.
Anyway, I saw an earthworm on the sidewalk the other day so I thought I'd continue my musings on them. Now, it had been a pretty hot, rainless series day, which is why a certain large earthworth sprawled out on the sidewalk attrached my attention. What, oh little earthworm, were you doing trekking across the hot and bumpy sidewalk designed for human, and not annelid, trafficing?
It was dying, that's what it was doing. And by the time I found it, it was baked all kinds of up and being eaten ants. I know it was just an earthworm, but it was silly fairly sad to see it sitting there, sunburnt to a crisp. At least it returning to the earth to remain a part of the circle of life.
Also, I looked up on Wikipedia why earthworms go to the surface when it rains. Apparently there's a theory that the rain makes the soil to acidic so the earthworms come to the surface for a more neutral environment... I guess I shouldn't be putting them back into the ground on rainy days...
I wasn't going to post this, since I already posted today, and yesterday. But without my lovely ladies in a certain Japanese apartment to absorb my random thoughts, I feel this is my only choice. (That's right guys, feel guilty for leaving me all alone in my apartment).
It's raining today, but I had the Wanderlust anyway. So I started taking my usual route and what do you know, there's a bunch of suicidal earthworms out there just waiting to be stepped on. Such things make me sad so as usual I felt compelled to pick them up and put them back in the dirt (the less wet patches of dirt, so they drown less easily...)
When I found the first one and set to work scrapping away the mulch in the nearest garden bed, I began to wonder if I was actually rescuing them. In a community service class I took two years ago, we once read an article about people who pick up starfish along the beach and throw them back into the water. Except that they're actually doing the ecosystem a disservice because the starfish, whether they like it or not, are supposed to get eaten by seagulls on the beach instead of eating other things back in the ocean. My class took that to mean we shouldn't be doing any community service because it will inheriently off set the ecosystem of the community and threaten some aspect we can't quite see. Yeah. (i.e. They didn't want to do the community service portion of the class, lazy bums). See The IT Crowd episode "The Red Door" for a lovely interpretive dance that goes along with this hands-off approach to preserving the ecosystem.
But sometimes I have to wonder, do the earthworms crawling along the roads and sidewalks during storms actually serve a purpose and am I disrupting that purpose when I attempt to "save" them? Am I even saving them or do they just end up dieing (...dying?) in the rain-soaked dirt? I am preventing them from continuing on an important journey from dirt patch to dirt patch, like some weird earthworm mating ritual that can only be completed when the rain is falling just right?
This are the things I think about when it rains.
Anyway, after "saving" maybe five earthworms (and feeling bad for not rescuing another two or three), I came back to my apartment, washed my hands (because earthworms, although important for the soil, have cooties), listened to Tokio Hotel's "Bereichte", which cheered me up nicely, and sat down to write this blog entry.
One day, I'll go out into the rain with my little yellow umbrella and just spend the day watching the earthworms and see what happens. And then feel bad if it turns out I was helping and my non-interfering-scientist/observer-self lets them die.
Adorable Hypothetical Picture of my Future Rainy Day Adventure
Courtesy of Pink Sherbert
PS: I think Mythbusters already answered this question.
Yay for Spring! But boo for needing to find something to do with my life.
So here's the deal: I was TOLD, by a certain person whose name starts with Mari and ends with anna that I should buy a GRE study guide from Amazon.com. Which makes sense since I like to save the money. Money is important to me. So I did that. And I bought Flight Vol. 1 since I wanted to get it and it meant I didn't have to pay for shipping. LOOK AT THE BEAUTY! (Beauty to be inserted later, once Blogger stops being not-cool. <-- I decided to keep this comment to remind myself of when Blogger is uncool. Seriously, uncoolness is not cool)
LOOK AT THE BEAUTY!
"It's so beautiful!" they cried with awe and admiration. "If only we had one!" Well you can! For only $13.99 on Amazon! Go now! What's that? Of course this message isn't small to emphasize it's subliminity. Amazon told me they'd ship the books separately so they'd get here at the optimal time, but I still wouldn't pay for shipping. So I'm like, 'Awesome.' But THEN I noticed the estimated shipping time for the GRE book, which was shipped on the 31st (... I think.... I don't pay attention to these things). Imagine my surprise when I found out that my GRE prep book will reach me around April 13th, but the Flight book, which was shipped this very morning, will reach my by the 6th.
What the heck Amazon? GRE prep: Obviously of greater importance. Kind of a no brainer.
By "around" they better mean about 6 days earlier. That's right. I should get it promptly by yesterday.
But I did not.
At least I have Spring to cheer me up.
Except it's cold and rainy.
...*Sigh*...
PS: What's the deal with"!" not being allowed in the blog title or the blog label? That totally throws off my caps lock-ocity. Blogger apparently hates me.
What the heck Amazon? GRE prep: Obviously of greater importance. Kind of a no brainer.
By "around" they better mean about 6 days earlier. That's right. I should get it promptly by yesterday.
But I did not.
At least I have Spring to cheer me up.
Except it's cold and rainy.
...*Sigh*...
PS: What's the deal with"!" not being allowed in the blog title or the blog label? That totally throws off my caps lock-ocity. Blogger apparently hates me.
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