Thursday, July 14, 2011

Sun-baked idea?

I did the last day's fieldwork (this was with the student who injured her ankle earlier).

Dang, it was hot. I wound up sending her into the last site (it was near enough to where we were parked so I could keep an eye from the van to be sure she was OK) to work on her own, because my asthma started to get to me (it's extremely humid here) and also I was perspiring profusely and starting to feel a bit chilled...which are early signs of heat exhaustion. (She's younger than I am, slimmer than I am, and doesn't have asthma...)

(I do feel better now.)

Before that, while we were working, we were talking about the periodical cicadas, and suddenly this idea popped into my head:

Underground?  I was there for 17 years.

(Sorry, I so did not feel like taking the time to try to superimpose a little pair of hipster glasses onto the cicada's face, so you'll have to imagine them).

I don't see Hipster Cicada catching on as a meme, because it's basically a one-joke deal.

(Or is it?:

Emerge, mate, and die in 24 hours?  Still beats being mainstream.)

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