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thanateI have been podcasted (episode 82) which is interesting; I have enough experience with storytelling* not to get fussed about differences of vocal expression, but I think if the situation arises again, I shall send an audio file of proper nouns. All the things I discussed over e-mail are just as I was saying them, but I forgot about the bio** and there are a couple other things I hadn't realized were less clear than I thought. On the whole, though, fascinating to hear someone else's interpretation, and, I mean, now other people can listen to something I wrote. So that's kind of cool...
Today was also particularly full of wildlife; we had a house wren show up recently, and it spent most of the day wandering around the front & side yards singing its head off; I think it may have actually decided to nest in one of the bird houses I put up on a nice long pole over the garden, which would be terribly cool.
Interesting bird fact for the day: songbirds fight over territory mainly by singing at the tops of their lungs. "I'm here! I'm HERE! I'm LOUDER THAN YOU ARE!" It is possible that I've spent too much time in the company of birds, as I have come up with my own territory-defending birdsong to drive grauwulf out of the kitchen. Unfortunately he says that he may be driven to go find a brick to hit me in the head with if I use it too much, though.
Also, as I went out to attempt better snail pictures (we counted seven pond snails the other night; I have no idea where they all came from) I discovered that we have at least one jump-in-the-pond frog to go with our tree frogs. Possibly two, but the one I've seen appears to be a female Northern Green Frog. She is not as rubber-bandy as some of her cousins, but she makes a sort of abrupt "mew" noise as she leaps into the deeper water.
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*For those just tuning in, "storytelling" is off-book performance art, not making stuff up. See also the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN.
**It's THANN-uh-tay; the long e being a feminine ending in ancient Greek, and the beginning butchered slightly to match my real name. Everyone who doesn't recognize the reference either assumes it's a chemical compound or something to do with Nate. This is probably unavoidable.
Today was also particularly full of wildlife; we had a house wren show up recently, and it spent most of the day wandering around the front & side yards singing its head off; I think it may have actually decided to nest in one of the bird houses I put up on a nice long pole over the garden, which would be terribly cool.
Interesting bird fact for the day: songbirds fight over territory mainly by singing at the tops of their lungs. "I'm here! I'm HERE! I'm LOUDER THAN YOU ARE!" It is possible that I've spent too much time in the company of birds, as I have come up with my own territory-defending birdsong to drive grauwulf out of the kitchen. Unfortunately he says that he may be driven to go find a brick to hit me in the head with if I use it too much, though.
Also, as I went out to attempt better snail pictures (we counted seven pond snails the other night; I have no idea where they all came from) I discovered that we have at least one jump-in-the-pond frog to go with our tree frogs. Possibly two, but the one I've seen appears to be a female Northern Green Frog. She is not as rubber-bandy as some of her cousins, but she makes a sort of abrupt "mew" noise as she leaps into the deeper water.
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*For those just tuning in, "storytelling" is off-book performance art, not making stuff up. See also the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN.
**It's THANN-uh-tay; the long e being a feminine ending in ancient Greek, and the beginning butchered slightly to match my real name. Everyone who doesn't recognize the reference either assumes it's a chemical compound or something to do with Nate. This is probably unavoidable.