Goldfish & Cats
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eredienSo, who wants to come see the Moscow Cat Theatre? [link in English]
Tickets are rather expensive. But it's Russian. And cats! On a tightrope!
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You remember your first goldfish, right, or your friend's? You went and got it in that rancid little Woolworth's pet department, or from a win-a-fish game at the carnival. You put it in a bowl with some water and a hideous plastic plant and named it Sigfried or Goldy or Petunia-Wallaby and fed it for a week and then it turned purple and wouldn't eat and one day you came in and if you were religious you recited a little prayer, and flushed, and washed your hands afterwards.
So my memory for directions yesterday apparently approximates that goldfish's. After death.
As was proven thus: the way to get the three blocks to Rax's house from the T stop is not via 20 blocks on foot, 'til you are standing at the Somerville hospital, thinking, "I'm lost, and there sure are a lot of cop cars in this area."
Annotated map later, with colors. It looks a little like the ones detailing the migration over the land bridge during the last ice age.
Tickets are rather expensive. But it's Russian. And cats! On a tightrope!
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You remember your first goldfish, right, or your friend's? You went and got it in that rancid little Woolworth's pet department, or from a win-a-fish game at the carnival. You put it in a bowl with some water and a hideous plastic plant and named it Sigfried or Goldy or Petunia-Wallaby and fed it for a week and then it turned purple and wouldn't eat and one day you came in and if you were religious you recited a little prayer, and flushed, and washed your hands afterwards.
So my memory for directions yesterday apparently approximates that goldfish's. After death.
As was proven thus: the way to get the three blocks to Rax's house from the T stop is not via 20 blocks on foot, 'til you are standing at the Somerville hospital, thinking, "I'm lost, and there sure are a lot of cop cars in this area."
Annotated map later, with colors. It looks a little like the ones detailing the migration over the land bridge during the last ice age.
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1/2/06 07:56 (UTC)We had a tank full of neon tetras. (I have faint memories of some Siamese fighting fish as well, but I believed they lived in another tank. And quite likely there was no more than one at a time: they were a succession.) When these didn't die immediately, some goldfish were added. A glass catfish. A little freshwater frog. Some black and red-tailed God-knows-what-they-were that persisted in jumping suicidally out of the tank every time we opened the top to feed them, and had to be scooped up and replaced, and one day Mishka (one of our cats; there were three when I was a child, a Siamese and two of her Tonkinese children) got there first. All more or less happily getting along. Then we went on vacation. And the automatic feeder failed. And when we returned, there was one reasonably well-fed fish and a skeletonized frog behind the air filter. Requiescant in pace.
There was also the incident with the small freshwater shark, but I remember that in much less detail: only that we bought one from the pet store, presumably under the impression it was something else—or at least not inclined to eat everything else in the tank—and returned it when it became abundantly clear that, yes, the other fish were disappearing.
After that, we had a bonsai.