Maggots!

[raven]

At half eleven this morning, I had one of those moments where you sit back and ask why, exactly, does this sort of thing happen to me? And is it because of something I did in a past life or just general malevolence on the part of the universe?

To be clear: I was sitting with a glass dish full of wet sawdust, looking for maggots. Ten of them, alive and squirming, all of which had to be dug out and returned to a beaker. I found the first four easily, but had to do some serious digging to find the rest. My biggest fear is that I missed one, and it's still there on the windowsill in the sawdust being maggoty.

I don't think I liked this practical. The afternoon one was no less successful, involving a managante(VII) titration. it's self-indicating, which means I make less of a mess of things; still, once we'd finished everything was violently purple and concordance really not an issue.

Anyway, today has been rife with people saying misguided things:

Rice-Oxley: The amount of testosterone produced by a male animal is directly proportional to the amount of aggression it exhibits and is so also proportional to the size of its... territory.

Me: Oh.

Sarah: We thought you were going to say something else.

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Mrs Colvin: You're not ethnic minorities! You're girls I teach!

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Sam: I found two rulers and a sheet I'd lost.

Mrs Barry: Where?

Sam: In the Lostprophets box... oh.

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Mrs O'Connor: Iona - define "lascivious."

Me: Lustful? Aggressively lustful... depraved? Depraved, but a lesser degree of it. Sort of. I think.

Mrs O'Connor: She's great at this, isn't she?

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Fidan: Iona, you look happy, which is not normal for you.

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Well, she's right. I'm happier lately, for a clear and obvious reason, but I'm also rather bored. I'm between fandoms, it's ages before the holidays, the UCAS cycle is ending and it just seems like we have nothing to do until study leave begins, and that's not fun because it involves revision.

I don't know. I need something new to think about.

Comments

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

I was sitting with a glass dish full of wet sawdust, looking for maggots.

Um. Was there a larger purpose to this exercise, or was the whole point finding the maggots?

The amount of testosterone produced by a male animal is directly proportional to the amount of aggression it exhibits and is so also proportional to the size of its... territory.

So, basically she's saying it's got a huge.... tract of land? Heh.

Your school sounds so much more fun than my school... why is that?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes, there was another purpose. We tossed the maggots onto the table with a light at one end to observe their behaviour, and then they went into the sawdust to observe their behaviour in wet conditions. Of course, they loved the wetness, went burrowing deep down and I was left to get them out again!

My school is, occasionally, fun. And I edit out the sucky parts!

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Because we're all girls and according to that quote the sixth form have minds similar to that of a cess pool *rolls eyes* lmao im only joking. Plus there are several disasters that regulary happen.

And the hellmouth in the library of course.

[snowyfeline.livejournal.com]

>.< I hate maggots....

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

I said lost PROFERTY BOX!
I did not say lost prophets I didnt!!!!!

[vamp-bite.livejournal.com]

Hay Iona,
I've just worked out how to post a comment on your page, which is worrying seeing as I've had a livejournal since 2003.
Will you friend me? I'd love to see how lovely old MTGS is doing. I've read a couple of your entries (hope you don't mind) and it seems like life is going well for you! Oxford, Time Magazine and a relationship! I hope you and Hannah are happy for a very long time. It's amazing when you finally get with a friend you've become so close to.
Anyway, I will stop rambling at you.
Alison

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

No, of course I don't mind! It's good to hear from you again. The journal is public so there are no friends-locked entries, but I'll friend you if you like.

And thanks for your good wishes; I'm certainly in a good place. How are you? Kept in touch with anyone from school?

[vamp-bite.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm not bad. I've kept in touch with a very small handfull of people. Have you found that towards the end of school everyone goes crazy and you cant wait to leave them behind? Or was that just me?

Hows Mr Evans doing these days? Crazy crazy man. And is the new head actually going to be good for the school? She didn't inspire me with confidence on Prize day.

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

I have always wanted to see maggots.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. No, you don't. They are Not Nice.

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Yes I do. I've heard so many descriptions of them. I want to see them.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I'm between fandoms

We need a new joint fandom. Not that I need another fandom; between SG-1 and the West Wing I'm nearly dead. But we need to be sharing one again. Something that's in repeats now, or that's easy to get from the library. Any ideas?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Um. I don't know! Those are some pretty stringent criteria.

Oh, idea - have you read Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy?

[(Anonymous)]

was this the one you were going on about with the swabbable bodies? have fallen through hole in the school firewall hence able to thingie. Patrick

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but you can rest assured I'm going to be looking for it in the library in a few short hours. Have you read any of Louis McMaster Bujold's stuff? Miles and co.?