Sunday, September 04, 2005

Igloos - the purple kind

Once more, this weekend has been one where time does not seem to run normally. While some things seem to have lasted forever, others seem to have run by, completely insensitive to the generous volume of homework fate has placed upon my shoulders…which, incidentally, I have spent almost the whole day doing, and yet haven’t even made a considerable dent in…hmm…

The remarkable thing about the show…it can get dark, and yet, it is possible not to notice!!! Seriously, if you’re there without a watch, with a stiff neck which inhibits you from looking at the sky, you’d think you were in Antarctica, the city (or country…don’t know which. One of the many good reasons that I quit Geography) that actually doesn’t sleep…or if they do, they do so while wearing sunglasses with all the curtains closed…

But one thing that’s become increasingly noticeable (I tried to make a linking sentence there in order to make the writing flow but failed…just pretend it worked) is the sudden influx of Moths.

They’re EVERYWHERE!!! At school, there is not a single surface where there is not at least one such specimen to be found (alternatively put: in a sample of 25 surfaces, with p = 0.3, with x being moth numbers, the probability of this is equal to: 1 – Pr(x<1)>most of all: on the toilet paper!!!

First off, the school toilet paper is already roughly in the same category of anti-absorbent rice/sand paper. (though, I’ll credit, it has improved since a few years ago) If it’s not squished into an oblong shape, therefore making it impossible to pull without ripping, some genius will have placed an entire roll into the u-bend. Brilliant. (which, incidentally I find a fascinating word, because Brillo-pads is like the British equivalent of a scouring pad, and an ant is an ant…not intentional I’m sure, but it effectively conjures up an interesting mental image) Anyways, now, in addition to all this, we have moths to add to the mix.

Moths on toilet paper does not sound like a winning combination. Now, I’m sure there are a whole host of fantastic arguments to support this, but I’ll go with, mostly it’s just “eww.”

I’m not afraid of moths. They’re just little flying things, which flap in your eyes and make you jump not because they’re scary, but because this is just what your reflexes make you do when anything comes hurtling towards you. All the same, it’s just strange, and oddly unsettling (like half-rhyme) that all of a sudden they’re everywhere…

It’s interesting that the phrase “to take out” can either be taken in a boy/girl context, or in terms of assassination…too cynical?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Woohoo! Im the forst to comment on this post :D
Ok let me just say that our school toilets are incredibly "eeew" and the toilet paper...well I like ur comparison to sandpaper....actually, make that non absorbant sandpaper :P
And with the moths..wtf is with them?!? Theyre everywhere at school and from what mum was telling me, they have overtaken Sydney as well. Lol and I think Taleisha made friends with one and was then distraught when it died :(
Ahhh well, cya tomorrow...at school..hmph!

sez said...

argh the MOTHINESS of them is what gets to me. apparently they've come out early coz of the warmer weather and then they eat all the nectar [or was it pollen?] from the flowers then lay their eggs in the flowers then when the eggs hatch the catapillars which resided within the eggs laid on the flowers eat the flowers. this can also happen in fields of crops, or on beds of roses...
heh. influx... well i found it entertaining... so entertaining i might write a sarah-nade [say it] about it... haha or not... but anyway, the moths are GROSS i have to walk up my road/drive with my mouth closed [making it incredibly difficult to breathe but oh well] or risk getting a moth in my mouth...EWWW!!! they're in A16 too, thats really quite gross, but i'd have to say that moths on the non-absorbent toilet paper really takes the cake...
anyway, after mega comment, i'll cya tomorrow...

CJ said...

yeah moths bad

Emma Smith said...

stupid moths. it was thanks to them that i came to be called "smoth". apparently a cross between my last name "smith" and "moth". Why? I don't know and probably never will...

sez said...

oh, is that how it happened?! i had no idea, except that one of the guys [probably lawson] started calling you that... at my house... that was when lib and i were the gossmasters lol... coz we [thanks to phil], had just found out who was bortox!! [*cough*] but AHA! now i know why its smoth lol

sez said...

look elizabeth!! 7 comments!! only hmm... 13 to go!! and this will be the 8th so you'll only have 12 to go! wow. how exciting lol