Yeah, so I was writting today, and I noticed some sort of bug flying around in my room (it was either a fly or a mosquito). I was very distracted by its zigging and zagging all about, so I had to stop writing and watch it, when it up and died in mid flight and fell into on of my candles. I sat there looking at the candle for a while beofre I said aloud, "Hm, weird," and then continued typing my story. I've never heard of a bug just dying while in mid flight, the weirdest part was, that the candle it fell into had a clear, plastic lid with three small holes in the top and he managed to magically fall right through one little tiny whole.
Yeah, so that's my weird expirience for the day, what's yours?
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Oct 16, 2008 - 07 13
Was the bug very close to the candle? The heat may have fried it in mid flight.
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Oct 16, 2008 - 07 21
No, the candle wasn't lit. I thinks that his time just finally came and he went night, night.
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Oct 16, 2008 - 07 26
odd...
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Oct 16, 2008 - 15 44
That's...intriguing. Maybe he was narcoleptic?
----------2008: Pirates of Merth! (WINNER!)
2007: Firebug (12k. Pathetic.)
2006: Of Rainbows and Skyscrapers (A pathetic excuse for anything. Please do not bring it up. Ever.)
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Oct 16, 2008 - 18 17
That's strange.... It just dropped?
Hm..
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Oct 17, 2008 - 12 33
Why did you write the title in Spanish? I know you just know learned it and everything, but still. Oh and by the way thanks for making my banner and book cover, they're great.
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Oct 17, 2008 - 13 29
It's so fun to speak in a different language than everyone else!
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Oct 17, 2008 - 14 04
¡Ya lo creo!
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Oct 17, 2008 - 19 40
C'est vrai. ;)
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Oct 17, 2008 - 21 05
Nan desu ka?
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Oct 17, 2008 - 21 16
Honto!? Omoshiroi desu ne! ^__^
----------For those that love me, no explanation is needed. For those that don't, none can be given.
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Oct 17, 2008 - 22 00
Dude. When I was in high school I took Judo, and the instructor taught us a tiny bit of Japanese - things we would need were we ever to visit Japan. Most useful sentence learned: "Excuse me, but where is the bathroom?" I don't remember how to say it now, as that was (*faint*) 27 yrs ago, but I recognized the "desu".
In Spanish, the best I ever managed were the true statements "No juego al volleyball" and "Canto mucho, pero no canto bien." Probably don't remember those correctly, either, as, again, it's been 25 yrs since my last Spanish class.
My strange insect experience today: I was chatting on facebook with a friend, and a cricket marched across my living room floor and disappeared under my piano. He's been silent so far. But perhaps he is waiting to accompany whoever sits down to play next.
----------Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. There’s only one rule I know of—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Oct 17, 2008 - 22 57
Oh, Spanish. That's cool. :)
And weird that it just died like that...
안녕하세요!
I wanted to jump on the language bandwagon. ^^
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Oct 17, 2008 - 23 14
I once had a housefly attempt to kamikaze my printer. It came swooping in at top speed, crashed on the print tray, twitched a little, and never moved again. The buzzing and the crash were very noisy. o_o I don't think the landing could have killed it; I think it also just died in midair, but happened to be accelerating at the time. Hard to say, but it was freaky.
I have also had ladybugs from the ceiling suddenly land dead on my keyboard on at least two occasions. That'll make you jump.
BUGS.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 01 44
dead bugs falling into an unlit candle for no particular reason any of us can deduce? Mass insect suicide...maybe insecticide for lack of the proper medical term. Either way sounds like it should end up in a novel somehow.
Dos cerveca porfa vor!
I have no idea how to spell in spanish, I think I need the things below the c.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 04 14
It's cerveZa, but when in doubt, just drink one ;)
The only time I had a mosquito drop dead mid air was when I had those bug killing things on. I have no idea what they are called. But I guess they gotta go sometime, right? As you said, maybe it was just it's time. But a narcoleptic mosquito would make a nice children's book character.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 05 16
Heh. Quite a few years ago, a cricket managed to find its way inside my piano. Not underneath it, inside it. Obviously it had to have lodged itself onto one of the strings because every time I played a certain note, it would chirp. Every single time. And it was one of the most commonly played notes in one of my repertoire pieces [[must have been around middle C]]. I killed myself laughing because all through the piece I was practicing, every time I played that one note there was that little chirp.
Okay, I admit, it's a little mean, but there's no way I could have gotten the cricket out
----------"Life soggies too fast when you put milk in it."
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Oct 18, 2008 - 06 03
Here's my mosquito rant. I grew up in the mountains, where mosquitos abound. Now I live in Sonoma County, which has a very Mediterrenean climate and (compared to the mountains) close to no mosquitos. Once I moved here, I started seeing commercials and billboards telling people to dump their standing water so as not to breed the little buggers. They talked about it like it was some big deal that they had a few mosquitos, and I was like, please! And I never saw any sort of endorsement for dumping water in the mountains; I suppose that's because most moutain people are smart and don't keep standing water in their backyards.
So yeah, that was a little random, but that's what this post reminded me of.
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"Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical."
--Derrick Jensen
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Oct 18, 2008 - 07 47
Oooh! I know! I know! It's something like 'Sumimasen, toyre wa doko des ka?' Japanese is fun :D
----------Smile and remember to be happy
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NaNoWriMo 2007 - Moonlit Nights - 29, 319 words - Failed =(
Screnzy 2008 - Fly! - 52 pages - Failed =(
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Blood Filled Puddles - 28,443 words - I will win!
Smile and remember to be happy
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Oct 18, 2008 - 07 57
Domo arigato gozaimasu!!!
I know a little bit of japanese, Korean, and Hindi too, although I can't hold a conversation in anything except English and Spanish (spanish is a small coversation at that).
Japanese: I watch tons of anime an ive picked it up
Korean: I learned a few phrases in taekwondo
Hindi: I lived in India a few years ago and learned most of the language, although I forgot most of the language (Apka kitab utaie)
Wow, everyone has some really creepy bug stories...I hate bugs.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 10 25
I'm learning German but I'm so bad at it I'm not even going to try to say anything. -hides-
As far as bugs, the only really weird that I've had happen is this one time I was sitting outside reading a book and this bee came and sat on my knee. There weren't any flowers around and he didn't seem at all disturbed by me and he just sat on me and cleaned himself while I read to him.
(It looked like that's what he was doing. Like a cat, but I'm not really sure. Do bees clean themselves?)
Then I finished the chapter and he flew away. It was pretty awesome.
----------2008: Sons of the Desert - Won!
2007: Girdiya Bratstvole - Lost
2006: Reign of Dissolution [Part 2] - Lost
2005: Reign of Dissolution [Part 1] - Won!
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Oct 18, 2008 - 11 58
Bees do clean themselves. It's a natural response whenever they have something powdered or wet on their fur, or when they have mites. Incidentally, sprinkling powdered sugar on bees can clear a hive of Varroa mites - Asian parasites that suck the blood of bees. You need to repeat this process several times to ensure that all of your bees have been sprinkled.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 12 19
That is odd. I have never seen a bug do that. were the candles lit? Perhaps it has something to do with the smoke from something burning. Bugs don't like that, maybe? :\
Miraculously, nothing odd has happened today. But I did dream about men in pencil skirts last night D:
Jumping onto the languages train:
それは面白いですよ！日本語をはなしますか？
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Oct 18, 2008 - 13 05
Ni thuigim !!
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Watashi wa shinobi desu!
(Japanese is so fun. Points if you understand what that means.)
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2008: Indigo - fantasy
"A pretty girl with a wicked smile on".
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Oct 18, 2008 - 16 22
Firstly, I'll bandwagon with something new!
Если вам можно читать ето, вы изучаете странный язык.
Forgive any grammatical errors.
As for bugs, that cricket story made me laugh. I personally get sick of craneflies/daddy long legs flying into my lights, which have those big round covers on. They make a huge racket, and I really dislike them. I have an irrational fear of them because I don't like their legs- I wouldn't want to pull them off. Also, cleaning a dead one up with rigor mortis is really gross, as their legs are often stuck up in the air rigidly- I'm not touching that! Another one is that a normal housefly came and sat on my LCD widescreen TV on an actor's face, which was funny. I poked it gently to move it, and it flew over to the wall to sit on. It really didn't seem to like flying, and when it did take off from the wall, it stayed low. I think it was a lazy fly.
Also, this doesn't count as an experience, but I had a nightmare about earwigs stinging/biting me on the head and everywhere. It was nasty.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 14 18
I once had a Venus FlyTrap plant that used to catch and eat spiders. Which I thought was a little ironic - and fine by me.
----------Eu absolutamente odeio aranhas
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars
Kahlil Gibran
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Oct 18, 2008 - 15 54
I had something similar happen, except the bug kind of skidded across my keyboard before knocking into my screen. It kind of tried to fly, and it looked extremely drunk. XD
I'm not on the computer with my hangul stickers on the keyboard, but anyway: Anyounghasaeyo~ *_____*
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06: if the gods are kind to you [rewrite of '05. modern magic realism. 100.07%]
07: failed. :(
08: Swan Songs [rewrite of '06. urban fantasy biopunk allegory of norse mythology.]
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Oct 18, 2008 - 17 20
Just started learning it a few months ago, but I understood all the Japanese comments except for NemoOrange's (which I think I managed to figure out anyway :-P ) and PeanutButter777's...I know 'watashi' is I, but I don't know what 'shinobi' is.
As for bug stories...I've found a spider in my bed on at least one, maybe two occasions. >.> The first time, I gasped loud enough that my sister heard me from down the hall. XD
Edit: and I understood the topic title, even though I'm not studying Spanish right now...I used to, though.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 17 21
UGH. Blood sucking parasites love me, a praying mantis once attacked my chest, and this Thursday a ladybug went into my shirt. =_=uu
Also, I've seen a HUGE dragonfly die midair. It was sad.
And then there was another dragonfly that kept on crashing to the floor until a vicious idiot stomped on the poor thing. DX
Yo se como leer y escribir en espanol, pero no lo quiero escribir correctamente en la computadora. XD