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A Strange Thing Or Two

Spring is here, definitely. The trees are budding. The grass is greener. And of course, the temperature is much higher, although a far cry from the heat of the tropics. This tree, with white flowers, smells very like fried or baked crabs.

The first time I stood near those trees, I wondered who on earth would cook such deliciously smelling food. It was kind of disappointing when it turned out that it was the flowers that emitted the smell, but it was all pretty cool anyway.

On a routine trip to Walmart, I saw this at the vegetables section. Starfruit, proudly named as “Unique Fruit.” It is terribly uncreative and funny. The instructions to select it: Choose firm and plump unique fruit. Oh please. Unique fruit?? The starfruit did look unappetizing, being all somewhat shrunken and battered, and of course, expensive, so no, I was not willing to try this unique fruit. I doubt anyone would, given the name. It just has a sinister ring to it.

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Twitter

I was just checking my mail, in an effort to procrastinate and delay writing that book report (ugh), when I saw an email that someone is now following me on Twitter.

Hm. That was interesting. I don’t remember ever signing up on Twitter.

I clicked the link, and was brought to my page where, apparently, I had a silly username. Waait. I was signed up for Twitter? When did it happen? Must have been years ago when Twitter first came out or something and I just signed up for it and entirely forgot later.

Weird.

Anyhow, I’m not entirely fond of this concept. But still, if you feel like it, you can follow me… @joytyy

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Snow Again

This time, in a different place, with much more snow. Perhaps 8 inches of it or so. It snowed all the evening, pretty heavily. I watched as the afternoon rain turned into mush, then into snow. Within a few hours, everything was blanketed in snow. It was beautiful - I only wished it wasn’t night, because then it was hard to see.

Still, night doesn’t mean you can’t go out to have fun in the snow, so that was what I did. I crunched through the snow - an awesome feeling. Made a huge snowman. Of course, I nearly froze my fingers off in the process. Fumbling for keys with numbed fingers is definitely not fun - made me think about how people die in cold places (after falling in water or the like) not because they don’t have the necessary fire-making stuff, but because their fingers were too numbed to strike a match/flint/whatever. And how do I know that? Watching too much “Man vs Wild” and “Survivorman”, that’s why.

The snow all over the land. Wait. Who is that talking to some ghostly snowman-ish apparition?

It was snowing hard. Proof? This picture.

Me and Mr Snowman. He’s a nice guy, although too fat and heavy.

Snow is just so pretty. But ice is treacherous. On a sunny day after a snowy day, the snow begins to melt. But the water doesn’t melt fast enough for the night to come. At which point, they all freeze up on the ground due to the low temperatures. And school is delayed an hour, and every class is cut back 10 minutes - the best part of it all. But it’s not exactly easy maneuvering my way through the ice and snow - the trick is to either pick the clear, obviously non-iced/snowed parts to walk, or to pick the pure white snow place to walk. Walking on ice? Not a good idea - unless you have spiked boots or the like.

The snow was thick, as you can see in comparison to the thin brown needle under all the white stuff.

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