Snakes and worms

There is a show on the Animal Planet channel called "Monster's Inside Me"- stories told by people who thought it would be a good decision while visiting Lima Peru to eat undercooked pork out of a dirty paper bag purchased from dude serving food from a rusty shopping cart- typically its ass worms, but I did watch one episode where the parasite was in the brain- and one time there was a bug that crawled inside a lady's ear...I find it beyond repelling, yet I've watched it at least three times.

So it got me to thinking who comes up with this shit- the last thing I need is another fucked up thing to get nervous about.

The week the girls came home from the hospital there was a 2 year old girl in Florida killed by "pet" python, so I got this in my head and I now have a fear of my daughters being attacked by a snake. To the best of my knowledge there aren't any pythons here at 2107- or 2105, but I have this in my head...and I think about it at least once a week.

Lately more because I had a dream a few nights ago I was with the girls visiting a someone who had a python slithering around the house.

"I'm not spending the night with my daughters unless you put the snake away in a locked cage," I said.

"He's friendly and too small to kill anyone," the snake owner replied. Admittedly the snake did seem friendly, he came right up to me and seemed to smile- still - yet its a snake- thus I knew I shouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security. I like it when I'm smart in my dreams...

I'm not afraid to say I hate snakes and worms. They disgust me and make me nervous and I could live the rest of my life not seeing either ever again.

Today Sadie was sipping rain water of the concrete step in front of my house- and so I start thinking is she is going to end up with an ass worm, and I'm going to unwittingly share a folk or glass of water with her and I'm going to end up with an ass worm...so now as I'm writing this I feel my spincter get itchy...

Fucking television.

The Moon

Tonight there was a waning crescent moon in the sky. The light side moon is reduced to a silver but you still see the shape of the dark side, so its a black moon with a slash of light.

Its not my favorite moon, I prefer a full moon, just because of the danger of it (potential werewolf attacks), yet the waning moon is what I find the most beautiful.

Just before my junior year of college I took a astronomy class in the summer. I thought it would be a fantastic dating tool, in that it is always so great when a person can point out a specific constellation. Sure I can find the big dipper, if the sky is right, but other than that star- I'm lost. I got a D in that class...and it was thus never used as a tool of seduction.

There's this great scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind where the prodigy John Nash played by Russell Crow points out the stars and planets to his date (and later his wife) Alicia, played by the ridiculously beautiful Jennifer Connely. He seems so intelligent and charming....yet he turns out to be schizophrenic crazier than bat shit- so if that's the consequence to knowing our solar system, I would rather stay relatively ignorant.

Still- I wish I had something like that in my pocket. Knowledge about something sort of painful to learn, yet really cool to know about- like plants- knowing the names of vegetation-its a great thing to know- but really who wants to memorize that book.

So really, I have no rap.

I have decided to stick to conversation about the things I actually know about...which may take me a while to completely nail down...