Air
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 9:06 amBangkok’s air has been disgusting lately. It’s full of smoke from the seasonal burning off of rice fields, and possibly forest fires. Anyway, my eyes are sore and my sinuses are borked and I feel dopey. Words feel like heavy things to lift. On the positive side, while my brain’s been lost in the fog I’ve cleaned quite a lot of bugs and bug poo (white sticky stuff) off my indoor tree. Some people think this kind of bug poo was the original manna from heaven that the Israelites ate. And I could eat it too if I hadn’t sprayed the tree with pesticide. But I did eat the pollen from the giant spider lily, which flowers indoors, where it had melted against the window. It tasted like sugar syrup. I feel sorry for this plant, because it flowers profusely but has no other spider lillies to pollinate with. I feel like collecting some of its pollen and taking it down to the spider lillies across the street!
March 29th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Ugh. My sympathies. Hope the air there becomes livable soon.
March 30th, 2010 at 7:50 am
Thanks. It rained a little last night and the air is slightly better today. It should be ok within a month or so when rain starts to become more frequent. Until then, where’s that lightweight urban scuba gear!
March 30th, 2010 at 9:19 am
I can feel my sinuses slamming shut in sheer sympathy. It sounds like a nightmare.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:43 am
And it’s way worse up north where the burning is. (And with the ongoing political problems, I don’t think pollution is very high on anyone’s fixit list.)
March 30th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
I try to avoid eating bug poop when I can … gets stuck in your teeth, ya know. But I suppose when you feel like crap and need some way of expressing yourself eating things is certainly one way to go. ::smirks::
March 30th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
No, it melts in your mouth! Or it should — it’s sugary (apparently). At any rate, ants were all over the tree harvesting it.