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iesikaI SAW GHOSTS THIS MORNING ! LOTS OF THEM!
Or, okay, they weren't ghosts, but they looked like it. I knew they weren't ghosts, but they freaked me out a little anyway until I figured out what they were.
I woke up at my client's house in a suburb of my town, after very, very little sleep, and had to drive back here (currently at my parents' house) in the dawning hours. It's cold out, this morning - the coldest it's been so far this year, and while it's probably not terribly cold by the standards of other people, I was frickin freezing. Anyway, I was driving too fast (like 60 on a 45) headed this way because it was dawn on Sunday on a country road, and I saw this....thing!
Keep in mind, I was going sixty, so I only saw it for a second, but I did a double take. There was this weirdly shaped, semi-opaque thing on the side of the road, about the size of a person. A minute later, I saw another one. And another one. By the fourth or fifth I had worked out that there were drainage grates wherever the 'ghosts' were, and they were clouds of biological steam.
I've never seen that before - I mean I've seen steam come up from grates before, once or twice, downtown, but I've never seen it randomly on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in dim light while barely awake. I wonder if that area has a different kind of sewer than the actual city. I wouldn't be surprised... It's a little backward.
Anyway, that was my strange morning. Now I've got to decide the nap versus fic question. Nap has some very compelling arguments.
Or, okay, they weren't ghosts, but they looked like it. I knew they weren't ghosts, but they freaked me out a little anyway until I figured out what they were.
I woke up at my client's house in a suburb of my town, after very, very little sleep, and had to drive back here (currently at my parents' house) in the dawning hours. It's cold out, this morning - the coldest it's been so far this year, and while it's probably not terribly cold by the standards of other people, I was frickin freezing. Anyway, I was driving too fast (like 60 on a 45) headed this way because it was dawn on Sunday on a country road, and I saw this....thing!
Keep in mind, I was going sixty, so I only saw it for a second, but I did a double take. There was this weirdly shaped, semi-opaque thing on the side of the road, about the size of a person. A minute later, I saw another one. And another one. By the fourth or fifth I had worked out that there were drainage grates wherever the 'ghosts' were, and they were clouds of biological steam.
I've never seen that before - I mean I've seen steam come up from grates before, once or twice, downtown, but I've never seen it randomly on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in dim light while barely awake. I wonder if that area has a different kind of sewer than the actual city. I wouldn't be surprised... It's a little backward.
Anyway, that was my strange morning. Now I've got to decide the nap versus fic question. Nap has some very compelling arguments.
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:03 pm (UTC)And also, have you seen this?
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:07 pm (UTC)SCIENCE. IT WORKS, BITCHES!
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:11 pm (UTC)Ah science, how i miss thee.
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:13 pm (UTC)SCIENCE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU!
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:17 pm (UTC)