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[seaintomulberryfields]

I remember back when I was a kid, walking my dogs, that the little neighborhood I lived in seemed so much bigger than it is now. Even going into the little green areas, logically nomore than a few acres, seemed like it constituted its own kind of adventure. One time, I saw something which I could only describe as a mix between a stick bug and a mantis, having sort of the mantis stance and the graswing arms but a very stickbug-esque face. It's actually so perfectly chimerical it makes me wonder if I did not imagine the whole thing. It seems like something I might have done, at that age, just arbitrarily decide that I wanted this to be an anecdote in advance and going with it.

One time the hospital near where I lived caught fire. I remember we all got evacuated and there was a big kerfuffle with the various fire brigades with jurisdiction over the area fighting over who was supposed to go in. I don't think there were any casualties or anything like that. My father went in and made it to a local newspaper in passing.

Anyway, I think if the bug I saw really was anything special or unusual it might have been a mantisfly. There was a little stream, probably very polluted and more than likely just runoff from somewhere, where I also saw these white crabs with bright yellow eyes; that's a good place for bugs, I figure. Although as part of the exercise in this blog I am not looking up anything about their actual biology so idk.