she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous...
ok so i was thinking just now about the rainforest (yes i know, random, but daniel picked the topic- so blame him) but anyhow, i was thinking about the rainforest and how it's such a singular sounding word and yet it's not like there is just one rainforest, right? i mean the word rainforest makes me think somewhat equally of a fictional place in a sci-fi book and of a big rainy forest. and yet still i think of it only as one specific place, and as far as i know it's not so much a place as it is a description. it's like there's all this talk about people destroying the rainforest or it dying due to pollution or even when they say good things about how diverse it is in flora and fauna still, don't they make it sound as if it were only one place on earth, it's like saying that there's this certain location and all these things are happening and i always think to myself, sheesh if there's only one rainforest and we keep cutting it down and polluting it, isn't it going to die, why can't we cut down trees everywhere else on the planet? (i guess that's teh green party in me) however it reminds me of some show or movie i saw that had this guy talking to this girl about how when he was a kid he thought that "gunpoint" was an actual place. and everytime he would hear on the news "man robbed at gunpoint" he would think the man was actually in a place called gunpoint and was robbed, and the guy was explaining how he thought all these horrible things happened in this one town and he just could not figure out why anyone would want to live in such a horrid place..but i think it's the same thing with the rainforest, i just always imagine it to be one specific forest, and not even a large forest, and i mean talk about your greenery is that ever a big forest, but something about the word rainforest just doesn't portray the vastness that truly is the rainforest. however, i don't think that i could better name the rainforest...i mean it's a giant forest with record amounts of rainfall so where does the name go wrong? i mean it wouldn't be any better if you called it the great big green now would it? at least when you say rainforest it gives it the exotic touch, somehow rainforest just denotes that certain mixture of deep fir green and crystal clear blue.....in fact...now that i think about it, calling the rainforest the rainforest seems rather perfect...quite picturesque and poetic somehow, at least in my head...like it's some eden of a place, unattainable and perfect, preserved by the water logged clouds.
i like to change my mind, i'm young enough to be able to-changedfish