What did I do today?
I got a haircut. The salon was having work done to convert the upper floor of their building to an apartment. The flooring guys were making so much in the way of sudden loud noises that the woman who cuts my hair, who is profoundly deaf, would jump and say, "Wow, that was loud! It popped my eardrum."
I went to the grocery store and bought milk. I went to the natural foods store to get coffee and they only had a quarter pound of the kind I wanted! I went home and worked on the water filter translation. Hoping for something good, I waited for the mail to arrive, but the mail arrived without goodness. I cooked something good for lunch and worked more. This evening I took a walk while a thunderstorm impended in the distance.
Now I'm watching a nature special about the Amazon. They are featuring these meter-long jumping fish. Fish spies bug sitting on leaf high above the river, shoots straight up out of the water and bites bug with gaping maw, flops back into river with much splashing. The cinematography is amazing, they're using a high speed camera and showing it in fabulous, crystal clear slow motion. You can see the water sliding off the sides of the fish.
Now we're on to a huge, butt-ugly fish. Again with the gaping maw. This one glides along and sucks smaller, unsuspecting fish into its huge, gaping maw. It does not appear to chew. The camera captures a fantastic air bubble fanout from the gills when the fish sucks up a victim that is near the surface of the river.
Now we've moved onto a fish that eats nuts. At least the nuts don't have that innocent, "just swimming along here, yes indeedy" look of the victims of the previous fish.
Now: the amazing, jumping slug-fish that mate on leaves!
319 words | August 16, 2005 08:11 PM | Real true story