there is a fish!
so as many of you know, there used to be fish in the pond in spies garden. and i loved those fish. i would visit them all the time and i dreamt of the day the pond would be named in my honor, and i have seriously considered buying one of those bricks and having it inscribed with, “the laura g memorial fishpond.” (speaking of which, if anyone knows how much one of those bricks costs, let me know.) anyways, the fish were one of my favorite things about the law school, and then the cold weather came and it was not good. i spent the 30 minutes before our crim law exam all in a bona fide panic (literally. i was doing that laura thing where you run around at a frenzied pace, waving your arms in the air, and talking very loudly to anyone around you while you gesticulate wildly.) b/c the pond had mostly frozen over and i was very worried, until i finally discerned movement under the ice, and confirmed with a fellow student that fish can survive these things. well, fish can’t survive all things and at some point in the spring, the fish were gone. which broke my heart. and they were never replaced. actually, at some point in the last 2 years i found myself talking to someone when i mentioned the fish and it turned out that this very person (i can’t recall who) was actually in charge of the fish and it turns out that the fish died every year and they finally decided that until there was a better system that wouldn’t kill the fish every year, there would be no fish. which i suppose is valid, but it does leave me w/o fish.
anyways, today i thought i would just take a look inside the laura g memorial fishpond, just to see.
AND THERE WAS A FISH!
now, you can hardly see the fish, b/c there is only one and he is black and the pond is totally dirty and it does not look like there is supposed to be a fish in there and i seriously think that the fish has spontaneously generated, but none of that changes the fact that THERE IS A FISH IN THE POND AGAIN! so that makes me happy. tho i do kinda wonder about all of the logistics of it, but i suppose i won’t focus on that for the time being.
anyways, today i thought i would just take a look inside the laura g memorial fishpond, just to see.
AND THERE WAS A FISH!
now, you can hardly see the fish, b/c there is only one and he is black and the pond is totally dirty and it does not look like there is supposed to be a fish in there and i seriously think that the fish has spontaneously generated, but none of that changes the fact that THERE IS A FISH IN THE POND AGAIN! so that makes me happy. tho i do kinda wonder about all of the logistics of it, but i suppose i won’t focus on that for the time being.
posted by laura at 3:38 PM
4 Comments:
It can't be a memorial pond until you die. But I am glad to see they got a new fish.
why don't you purchase some fish and stock the pond?
because then i would be RESPONSIBLE for the fish. and there is a lot of work that goes into fish. making sure the water is right (the water in the pond does not look right), the pH levels or something, feeding the fish. the fish would certainly die under my watch.
as to lexi's point, i do NOT believe that they REPLACED the fish. i believe that this fish has SPONTANEOUSLY GENERATED in the pool. i'm not kidding. there's no way he's supposed to be there.
which is also part of the reason i don't think i should take care of him. i presume that the kind of fish who can SPONTANEOUSLY GENERATE in a pond probably don't have the usual needs.
you are fish like.
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