January 23, 2012
My students don’t like rainy Mondays, but really, should they complain about rain when we get so little of it in the So Cal?
I like the feeling after rain, the wet air and the clean shine look of the sky and air. Of course, it doesn’t last long.
I think on days like this about how I would love my life if I could do anything I wanted. I would still write and edit definitely and probably still teach some. Things I would do more if I had the time: Yoga, dance, cook, garden, write, walk, run, swim, read and definitely and absolutely—sleep.
This morning it took me two hours to drive to work in the rain, so that is the bad side of rain and driving.
My chicken, the one with PTSD after seeing her fellow hens mutilated by raccoons, (the raccoons ate the heads and left the bodies and feathers scattered,) that hen is now living with our one rabbit, Snowy 42. Snowy 42 because our kids’ friend Wendy Vanessa Gomez used to name all our white animals Snowy 7, Snowy 8 and there was a small white parakeet named Snowy 4 ½. That parakeet needed therapy too. Who calls a parakeet by a fraction? It’s enough to drive you to drink. And drink that parakeet did. Snowy 4 ½ was in the water bowl day after day.
But back to Snowy 42 who is living with Red Hen 8. They are intimate. Now you’d think that any quacking or clucking would throw you off your game when you went for intimacy, you’d think if you had really long ears you wouldn’t like the clucking. She does cluck into the long bunny ears and then they get cozy. Behind the bamboo hutch, the bunny slut gets her move on. It’s a bit disturbing so thank god we have no small children around. I don’t even like to have the puppy see this sort of thing, but her eyesight is quite poor so she may be missing all the action.
Never think that interspecies sexuality is a myth. It’s a reality in my backyard. Gay animals and birds abound. We had a couple doves, Bruce and Bruce who were deeply in love. German and Japanese zoos report homosexual penguins. There are many questions we could ask like why are the Germans and Japanese so interested in whether their penguins are queer or not? And are there LGBT awareness classes for the young penguins coming up or are they just left to their own devices?
Bats will masturbate. Fruit bats have a higher rate of homosexuality than other bats. I knew that!
Sadly penguins even in a committed relationship will trade food for pebbles for their nests and chimpanzees will trade food for sex. Most American female prostitutes won’t do it for pebbles or food, but want small green pieces of paper with pictures of old men.
Well, that’s enough to show you that my chicken and rabbit aren’t that abnormal. They fit right into the wild animal kingdom.
