Is there really something wrong with being quiet? Is it wrong that some people don’t talk as much as others? Why do people want us to all be babbling fools? There are those people who talk about any and everything. Then, there are people who don’t talk about anything. Is it considered a personality flaw?
I am a quiet person. I don’t talk unless directly addressed, or I have an opinion that needs to be stated. An opinion needs to be stated when no one else is stating the same opinion. I’m not really shy. I don’t mind talking to people I don’t even know. It’s quite fun, actually. The thing is, it’s not in my nature to really socialize with people.
I am an observer. I observe people; their reactions, their mannerisms. I listen to people. Sure, you ask me a question, I’ll gladly respond. Continue asking me questions, and, if I think you’ll actually listen, I will talk and talk about any and everything. If I think you’re not going to listen, I’ll clam up and observe, yet again.
I have been told that I need to talk more. And I can, it’s just not in my nature to do so. I have also been told that I need to wear more make up, that I need to get a cell phone, and that I need to study more. But that doesn’t mean that I am going to. Yes, I will continue to state my opinions when they need to be stated, answer questions in class that no one else is answering, and sit back and observe.
Often when I talk, I am cynical; something which has gotten me in trouble plenty of times with my siblings, and a few times with some of my teachers.
I’ve never had a problem leaving an impression though. I wonder why….
Skyline
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Tapping
It's that time of year. My little sister started to get so excited about tapping. So I told some people that my little sister was getting really excited and that she was looking for taps. I then recieved a response I didn't expect.
"Tap shoes or what?"
Tap shoes? No, I mean taps. Something that everyone out here is rushing to find so they can get all that good syrup! Taps! Tree taps!
My sister gets really excited about it every year. Her and my Father went hunting in the basement to see if they could find some taps. And, of course, we had less than last year. The year before, we had two taps. The year before that, we had three. This year, we had one.
My sister was so disappointed. But, my father tapped trees all his life, having just one tap didn't mean we could only tap one tree! He made a sort of tap out of twine so that my sister could still get more sap. It doesn't work as well as the actual tap, but it works just fine. My sister is happily collecting sap every morning and evening.
But do people not know about taps? Those little metal cones that when put in a new hole in a maple tree allow the sap to be directed into a bucket? Do people not know that sap doesn't come out all rich and brown and ready to be put on pancakes and waffles? That the sap is clear as water and has to be boiled down into a thick amber colored syrup? Things to ponder.
Sap comes out clear, with a slightly sweet flavor. It is then strained (to remove dirt, bugs and whatnot) and put in a large pan. Then you turn on the stove and wait. It boils down slowly. Well, it doesn't actually boil. Or at least it shouldn't. As the sap boils down, the color turns darker and darker. It doesn't get very dark. That dark syrup you buy from the store is usually artificial, they usually don't even have maple syrup in it.
When it turns a kind of amber color, you have to watch it closely. You don't want it to boil. When it gets close to boiling, that's when you turn it off, strain it into jars and store it. No, it's not going to be very dark. Just a kind of dark amber color. But it is good. And it is true Maple Syrup. If you boil it down too much, it will start to crystalize. If it crystalizes, then you can grind up the crystals and then you have a sort of sugar. Completely natural!
Skyline
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"Tap shoes or what?"
Tap shoes? No, I mean taps. Something that everyone out here is rushing to find so they can get all that good syrup! Taps! Tree taps!
My sister gets really excited about it every year. Her and my Father went hunting in the basement to see if they could find some taps. And, of course, we had less than last year. The year before, we had two taps. The year before that, we had three. This year, we had one.
My sister was so disappointed. But, my father tapped trees all his life, having just one tap didn't mean we could only tap one tree! He made a sort of tap out of twine so that my sister could still get more sap. It doesn't work as well as the actual tap, but it works just fine. My sister is happily collecting sap every morning and evening.
But do people not know about taps? Those little metal cones that when put in a new hole in a maple tree allow the sap to be directed into a bucket? Do people not know that sap doesn't come out all rich and brown and ready to be put on pancakes and waffles? That the sap is clear as water and has to be boiled down into a thick amber colored syrup? Things to ponder.
Sap comes out clear, with a slightly sweet flavor. It is then strained (to remove dirt, bugs and whatnot) and put in a large pan. Then you turn on the stove and wait. It boils down slowly. Well, it doesn't actually boil. Or at least it shouldn't. As the sap boils down, the color turns darker and darker. It doesn't get very dark. That dark syrup you buy from the store is usually artificial, they usually don't even have maple syrup in it.
When it turns a kind of amber color, you have to watch it closely. You don't want it to boil. When it gets close to boiling, that's when you turn it off, strain it into jars and store it. No, it's not going to be very dark. Just a kind of dark amber color. But it is good. And it is true Maple Syrup. If you boil it down too much, it will start to crystalize. If it crystalizes, then you can grind up the crystals and then you have a sort of sugar. Completely natural!
Skyline
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Animals
Okay, there are stupid animals. Everyone knows that there are stupid animals. Yet, it is a mystery as to how these animals survive. Smart animals should be the ones surviving while the stupid animals die off. Right? I mean, that makes logical sense. Natural selection. Let’s do a demonstration with cats, shall we? We should come up with an equation that looks similar to this one:
Cats - Stupid Cats = Surviving Smart Cats
Simple, right? Wrong. We forgot to factor in humans. For some reason, we humans find stupid cats (animals in general) adorable. Why? For the simple fact that they are stupid. Some cats that we have had over the years have not known the difference between the litter box and their bed. We’ll find them sleeping in the litter box and pooping in their pet bed. Why? Because they are stupid.
I’ve seen my cat in the litter box and dump it over while she was missing it. She has done this at least twice. It was then that I started thinking, why? Why are stupid cats surviving?
All these years and you’d think that the stupid cats should have died off already.
All these years and you’d think that the stupid cats should have died off already.
Oh wait. As I have said before, we humans have a tendency to find stupid animals cute. We feel the need to save them and watch them. They amuse us. The fact of the matter is, that we, as humans, are stupid. Oh, yeah, we can say the alphabet backwards. But is that a sign that we’re smart? "Oh look. We have an alphabet. Let’s say it backwards! Then people will realize how smart we are!"Is that really a sign that we are smart? Or do people from other countries laugh at us behind our backs because we think we're all smart saying our alphabet backwards.
Yes, there are some remotely smart people. But then there are the “normal” people. The “normal” people are the ones who often take in the stupid cats. Let’s check out our new equation. It would look something like this:
Cats + (Humans – Smart Humans) = Stupid Cat Majority
We are stupid. Face it. Therefore, we feel compelled to surround ourselves with even stupider animals so that we don’t feel as stupid and we have something that completely (I mean completely) depend on us.
Hypothetically, if we let all of the cats in the world out into the open for a few months, you will find many smart cats preying off of the stupid cats. Stupid Cats will litter the streets having been hit by oncoming traffic. They'd get lost in the woods and starve. We'd have an abundance of cats that couldn't find their way home, and this have even more strays, most of the new ones being the smart cats who just weren't bright enough to make it home.
That is just a hypothetical situation, of course. It may or may not be remotely close to what would happen.
The point is that we humans save the stupid cats because we feel sorry for them. We only feel sorry for them because they are stupid. You don’t see everyone smiling and laughing at the smart cat who managed to bring in a dead animal to eat. No. You do see people (Mind you, people who won’t scream at a living mouse.) smiling and laughing when a stupid cat brings out an alive mouse (or rat) and manages to lose it within a matter of seconds.
You don’t see people laughing at the smart cat that judges the distance perfectly and jumps from table to chair. Lots of people laugh when they see a stupid cat misjudge the same distance and land far short of their target. It is fun to watch. We had a great time just watching my cat as it grew. The things it did were amazingly stupid. Our other cat often amuses itself by following mine around and watching it do stupid stuff.
If the stupid cats weren’t there, the smart cats would grow quickly and each generation would get smarter and smarter until cats were a highly advanced race. They would conspire against us and lure us to isolated parts of our homes and lock us up. Or kill us. Whatever their little hearts desire. So, you see. There is an advantage for the world to have stupid cats. Eventually, the time for the smart cats will come, but for now, stupid cats are the majority and smart cats are the minority.
There you go. The reason why there is a majority of stupid cats in the world. We just plain love them. (And they breed with the Smart cats so that they don't become quite smart enough to be able to kill us in our sleep.)
Skyline
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