I was pondering today that I might try answering the questions that pop up in Writer's Block for a week and see if they are in fact interesting or not. I was pondering this until I checked my email and saw that my blog post from yesterday about Zachary Quinto's birthday was in the google news update. Why do I never learn?
Anyway, the writer's block question - 1/7 is..
Recount a remarkable incident involving insects.
I do actually have a story involving insects but it's not that remarkable. When I was in primary school I was out with my class on some waste ground drawing creatures for art class (as you may have gathered, it wasn't an exclusive public finishing school, and yes I did say 'waste ground'). My friends and I had collected a nice crop of orange caterpillars in a Flora tub and thought that instead of putting them back where they came fro, happily munching on dandelion leaves, that we should take them home and let them enjoy the luxury of a semi-detached 3 bed before their inevitable early death.
So we formed a human chain around the caterpillars and managed to smuggle them into school. We hid them in the entrance hall behind a blackboard, but we couldn't find anything to make holes in the top of the tub and didn't want them to die so we just left the lid with a corner off.
You can imagine what happened next.
The caterpillars made a bid for freedom whlst we were doing maths, and the next I know me and my friends, otherwise known as the Chrysalis Six, were in the headmistresses office. Luckily for us she was a good old stick and we didn't really get into any trouble. We wrote her a grovelling apology and I copied it up because I had the best handwriting. She later told us she'd shown it to her mum. By now of course, she was used to be doing things like this. I had after all been in her school for four eventful years.
So there's my insect story. It's not that remarkable and it might have been better if I'd lied and said that the caterpillars hatched into butterflies and charmed the school with a well-timed display of flutteriness. Damn.
PS T Shirt of the Week
Saw a guy yesterday wearing a tshirt that said 'Heisenberg May Have Been Here'.
Click for why that's funny if you're not a huge geek like me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle