Wednesday, March 29, 2006

fire and ice

so i've named my fish fire and ice, well to be honest: fuegito and leet (in spanish and ukrainian for love of my students). (i'll have to tell the story later of how one of my 2nd graders talked me into getting pets) leet and fuegito have lived in my apartment for just a couple of weeks now. i was feeding them and cleaning their lil' tank. i was talking to them and all, but hadn't found a proper place for their tank to stay. they had been on the kitchen counter b/c it's a visible location and i wouldn't forget to feed them there.
well, i was recently cooking up a nice salmon steak in my GFG and the smoke and the smell of it had to bother them. it sure bothered me to have my pet fish right next to my dinner fish. so that night i found a new spot for them. they now are on my desk in my bedroom (-i hope i remember to feed them). there's no chance they'll get worried about whatever I choose to cook up for dinner. they're betta fighting fish and each time they spot each other through the divider they get all flared up and wriggle about. i don't want to cause them any more anxiety than is necessary. little ironic that the pacifist bought two fighting fish. hmmm....

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