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- d'Zhuoy is a 41 year old woman from Ex-Urbs, New York, USA.
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"All my thoughts, they come in pairs. / I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't, / I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared." --Bright Eyes ...---... "When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care." --Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture"
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Among the many flying critters buzzing about my patio today, as I sit here and write, is one honey bee who I can describe only as insane and obsessed. He (?) hovers around my computer, occasionally trying to crawl into its various ports. He is not dissuaded by the numerous carpenter bees careening around the patio. He is not repelled by cigarette smoke. And I believe he spent the night in the cap of my ballpoint pen, as I saw him lodge himself in the bee-sized hole in the cap and never saw him emerge from it before I went inside for bed around 10:30.
The tulip beds are going full throttle, the scent of lilac bushes wafts past me on the occasional breeze, and the clematis has sprouted some buds.
One of our ruby-throated hummingbirds showed up two days ago and I immediately fixed up the feeder for him and his mate, but he has not come back; I think the aggressive carpenter bees are discouraging him.
The goldfinches, purple finches, titmice, chickadees, nuthatches, and woodpeckers -- and a couple of times a rose-breasted grosbeak -- are thronging to the feeders six feet away from me.
There's this other bird that I have yet to identify -- a gorgeous little brown & white-streaked songbird -- that hops along the ground, picking through the unraked leaves to find bugs, and sharpens her beak on one of the chairs near me. I'll have to try to identify her today.
Meanwhile, this insane, obsessed honey bee continues circling my macbook. It makes me wonder whether the decline in hives is at all related to the ubiquitous electronic vibrating things that humans have introduced into the environment. After all, my honey bee seems indifferent to an authentic honey bee social life except whatever my macbook is "telling" him it can offer, and to the work and natural interests of a honey bee. Passing strange.
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