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Calli - Nov 02, 2011 8:06:56 am PDT #4348 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yeah, Matilda's very afraid of bees.

Oh, dear. I hope regular proximity to them at her school will help with that. That's pretty much how gardening desensitized me. In the 1990s I was all, "Bees on the flowers, ack, time to go in," and now it's more like, "Bees on the flowers, eh, time to weed a couple feet away from that action."

I read somewhere (I know, such a reliable source) that when they set up hives on school grounds, they try to arrange it so the line between the bees and their main flower sources don't cut across kids' play areas.


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2011 8:07:14 am PDT #4349 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

our merit review docs were all due Nov 1. He sent the email on Dec 31

Thinko, right?

The "guy who always says 'yes'" has resigned. Now, we thought he wanted to stay long term. No doubt because someone asked him "Guy, do you want to stay long term?" However, when later left to start his own sentence, he was able to say "I don't want to stay long term." Transitioning off this project is going to be...ugh I don't want to think about the handover. I'm going to have to watch it extra closely.


JenP - Nov 02, 2011 8:08:13 am PDT #4350 of 30001

It's actually the praying mantis in the computer lab(?) that would have scared the crap out of me as a kid, and up to my mid-thirties. I've realized only recently that I could probably downgrade it now from phobia to strong dislike, but... those things just ain't right.


Liese S. - Nov 02, 2011 8:08:51 am PDT #4351 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I nearly planted our butterfly garden plants further from the house out of worry about the bees, but it's never been a problem. The bees love the plants, and aren't interested in us at all. It makes a lovely vibrant, active sound.


Steph L. - Nov 02, 2011 8:10:26 am PDT #4352 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

those things just ain't right.

True 'dat.


Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:12:52 am PDT #4353 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Now, we thought he wanted to stay long term. No doubt because someone asked him "Guy, do you want to stay long term?"

Would be funny except for the strong urge to punch him. Ugh. But better to have someone on the team that can give a straight answer.


amych - Nov 02, 2011 8:13:17 am PDT #4354 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

those things just ain't right.

They're the most fabulous bugs ever! That aren't iridescent or gigantically rhino-horned or use other species to feed their larvae from the inside out.

Anyway, awesome.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2011 8:15:42 am PDT #4355 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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-t - Nov 02, 2011 8:16:15 am PDT #4356 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Praying mantises are so right they are blowing your minds.

I don't find there are more bees in the yard since I got the hive than there were before. Well, within a foot of the hive, yes, many bees, but outside of that I rarely see more than one or two at a time.


Jesse - Nov 02, 2011 8:23:33 am PDT #4357 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was pretty old before I realized that freezing was not the only possible reaction to bees. I was never overly afraid of them, but somehow got convinced that I would accidentally flail into one's way, and that's when I would get stung. So, freeze.

I had several weird rules as a kid that I mostly just made up, although they were based on something. I just took them a little far.