Not only are "millions of cicadas are expected to infest the nation's capital and parts of Maryland and Virginia this spring," a swarm that "bug experts say ... will be of biblical proportions" (that's rather daunting, eh?), but school administrators are talking about removing nap time from Pre-K school.
WTH?
"They can't be babied," Seabrook Principal Marvel Smith said. "These are young minds. We have to take advantage of this early stage when they grasp everything."
Makes you want to move to Sedna.
Posted by Jason at March 15, 2004 7:31 AM | TrackBackYou beat me to the punch, J! I'll have to re-establish my blog with an entry on these critters.
Posted by: natalie at March 15, 2004 4:13 PM | Permalink to CommentAh hA! I was waiting for some sort of indication about this. We got a weak little spattering of the Cicadas last year(along with rumors about the impending doom) and my cat almost died of sheer pleasure. Some cats like birds and mice. Mine likes plants and bugs. Go figure. Anyway, imagine how much fun a big, slow, colorful, quivering, jumping, fat HORDE of bugs would be to an old scaredy cat. He'll be incorrigible.
Posted by: Tanya at March 16, 2004 7:34 AM | Permalink to CommentAh hA! I was waiting for some sort of indication about this. We got a weak little spattering of the Cicadas last year(along with rumors about the impending doom) and my cat almost died of sheer pleasure. Some cats like birds and mice. Mine likes plants and bugs. Go figure. Anyway, imagine how much fun a big, slow, colorful, quivering, jumping, fat HORDE of bugs would be to an old scaredy cat. He'll be incorrigible.
Posted by: Tanya at March 16, 2004 7:38 AM | Permalink to Comment