I spent twenty years in that room, learning the noises the country night made and thinking of them as home. Only took ten years to undo all that. I'm a city person now.
I miss lightning bugs, though.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 10:07:17 am PDT #5419 of 10001
brillig
Polter-Cow - Jun 23, 2004 10:09:24 am PDT #5420 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I miss lightning bugs, though.
Aww. There aren't enough people who call them lightning bugs. I was young and in Pittsburgh. Haven't seen them since, I don't think.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 10:14:10 am PDT #5421 of 10001
brillig
I was young and in Pittsburgh
I was young and in Greene County, Pennsylvania, 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. Is it that much of a regionalism?
Beverly - Jun 23, 2004 10:17:42 am PDT #5422 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Lightning bugs in NC, too. Anybody who grew up calling them glow worms? I had no idea they and fireflies and lightning bugs were all the same insect.
I'm loving the silence drabbles. Mine won't jell, but it's working itself out.
Pix - Jun 23, 2004 11:36:15 am PDT #5423 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I call them lightning bugs and fireflies. I don't know why--both names seem to be common in this area.
ooo....they would be a great drabble topic....hint, hint...
Off to have the BEST LOBSTAH EVAH.
I love New England.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2004 11:55:17 am PDT #5424 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We call them peeniewallies.
sumi - Jun 23, 2004 12:07:47 pm PDT #5425 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I miss hearing bobwhites.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2004 12:11:42 pm PDT #5426 of 10001
brillig
Birds with something to say, yeah. Whippoorwills.
Peeniewallies? I disbelieve.
erikaj - Jun 23, 2004 12:12:30 pm PDT #5427 of 10001
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
When I was a kid, we had an aviary and had a pair of them. I loved to watch them and listen to the calling. But of course, I didn't have to go to work so the birds getting started early didn't bother me like my parents.
sumi - Jun 23, 2004 12:13:40 pm PDT #5428 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Did you get Spring Peepers where you grew up?
We used to hear them at my grandmother's house. .. you know, in Spring. (Southeastern Pennsylvania.)