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Jul. 14th, 2006 12:38 pmGot home last night from Jackson at 8:30 PM, having worked nearly a fourteen-hour day and bringing my total for the week up to over 45 hours.
Today, I SLEPT TILL NOON. BLISS. <3 <3 <3 <3
I must get my act together, study for my exam, learn how to do these hydrology problems, pack for next week, and work on my wetlands presentation....
...but they can wait until my brain wakes up.
Gratuitous trivia for the day: Flamingos are virtually nonexistent in Egyptian mythology, but gads of them live in the middle of Lake Natron, where the shallow lake is too hot and too caustic to support anything other than algal life. They build little grey nest mounds that look like ash out of the mud, and lay their eggs on the top of the nest, and woe betide the chick that falls into the water before it can stand on its little legs and keep its body out of the caustic water. No, flamingos don't often appear in Egyptian mythology, but something else does: There's this red bird that rises from the ashes... (Edit: But see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taichara's clarification, below.)
To be fair, there's no solid proof of the association; it's just a neat theory that some natural historians have come up with. But the idea that the badass, majestic phoenix might be based on a gangly, squawky flamingo just makes me giggle. Oh, Suzaku, honey, no.
Today, I SLEPT TILL NOON. BLISS. <3 <3 <3 <3
I must get my act together, study for my exam, learn how to do these hydrology problems, pack for next week, and work on my wetlands presentation....
...but they can wait until my brain wakes up.
Gratuitous trivia for the day: Flamingos are virtually nonexistent in Egyptian mythology, but gads of them live in the middle of Lake Natron, where the shallow lake is too hot and too caustic to support anything other than algal life. They build little grey nest mounds that look like ash out of the mud, and lay their eggs on the top of the nest, and woe betide the chick that falls into the water before it can stand on its little legs and keep its body out of the caustic water. No, flamingos don't often appear in Egyptian mythology, but something else does: There's this red bird that rises from the ashes... (Edit: But see
taichara's clarification, below.)To be fair, there's no solid proof of the association; it's just a neat theory that some natural historians have come up with. But the idea that the badass, majestic phoenix might be based on a gangly, squawky flamingo just makes me giggle. Oh, Suzaku, honey, no.
