Now that I'm out of creativity mode, I will tell you about yesterday. It was incredibly cloudy and a heavy drizzle was going on when I got out of school. This entertained me for quite some time. Shortly thereafter, I continued to the local pool, as per usual. I had a water polo game yesterday so once I got to the pool I (okay, nearly everybody else too) sat around waiting for the stragglers so we could go to the game. During this period of time I skipped around in the puddles with other team members (we're always wet, so puddles were quite enjoyable). Then we left for the game.
Oh, and what a game it was. Such boredom! I don't mean to be horribly rude, but the team we played was...bad. I will refrain from going to the extent I wish to, and will just stick with bad. We were pulling starters and mixing up the lineup in the first quarter. True, that meant I got to play hole-d, but what good is that when it isn't challenging? I scored, which in and of itself is a manifestation of the teams lack. Anyway, the highlight of the girls' game was...um, I can't think of one. Oh yeah, we won. Yay. The guys' game wasn't a whole lot more intriguing. The highlights there had to do with thte position of goalie. We put in our second-string goalie (he'd never played in a varsity game before then, mind you) and that was fun. We got to cheer him on for a while. Then in the last quarter we put our top scorer in the cage. I think it was a kind of mercy. However, the top scorer looked heinously humorous in the goalie cap. He looks funny in the polo caps to begin with, but in the red one he reminded a lot of the crowd of Winnie the Pooh. I really don't know why. So, for quite some time, we were entertained by getting a picture of him. The only problem was, the other team rarely passed it to our side of the pool. Hence, we rarely got a good shot. But, we did manage it. Such was the extent of the boredom at the water polo game.
And, I think a certain [hmmm, what animal shall he be? Aha, got it] hornbill showed up at the river today. Mildly disconcerting. Okay, not so mildly, but I'll survive. I'm very busy this weekend, so nothing can come of it.
I have the school swim banquet tonight. Maybe I'll tell you how that goes when I get back. The sad thing is, the season ended in February and we're just barely having the banquet. We are such slackers.
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Is hornbill our prom friend? I think I'll be a boa or king snake. You decide when you see the behavoir.
BOA:
DIET:
birds (hornbill) and mammals, detected by infra-red heat sensing nerve bundles in pits or behind scales.
BEHAVIOR:
Giant boas are among the slowest of snakes. Their weight requires rectilinear (straight-line) locomotion using "rib-walking" at about 1 mph in the open. They can be quite fast in the water. They may be slow getting from here to there but the strike is as fast as the blink of an eye.
KING SNAKE:
DIET:
Rodents, snakes, lizards, amphibians, birds (hornbill) and the eggs of reptiles and birds. Their appetite for rodents makes them a valuable ally of farmers. King snakes are constrictors, and are highly resistant to the venom of pit vipers (the girl Elystë kills), and can kill snakes larger than themselves (I can do that). If a rattle snake detects the presence of a king snake, it may flatten its head and neck, the parts the king snake attempts to grasp with its jaws, against the ground and raise a loop of the body and swing the loop from side to side, attempting to strike or distract the enemy. Rattlesnakes, as well as other snakes, can detect the odor of king snakes and will take flight. (Yes. They take flight.)
BEHAVIOR:
Usually docile but when threatened will hiss, vibrate tail, coil, and strike out. (Ain't this true? You tick me off, expect a blow to the face. Good thing you don't tick me off very much. [hardly ever])
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