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                              The alien flutterby
                                        
 [1] I met Mark [2], JeffK, Kelly [3] (who took some convincing to come over)
and ChrisS [4] at Miserak's, a local pool hall I've been going to for several
years now. 

While there, Chris gave me a present—a chrysalis [5]. A live (I hope)
chrysalis. It's not a Monarch though—I think he said it was a native Florida
species. 

Not wanting to keep this to myself, I put the chrysalis on Spring's [6] desk
when I got home. 

When she got home she freaked out at finding this alien looking thing on her
desk. Skeeved is the term I think she used. 

Heh. 

So I put the chrysalis on a plant in the court yard where it will hopefully
remain undisturbed until it … well … until the butterfly comes out (it's not
exactly hatching and I don't recall what the term is when a butterfly comes
out of a chrysalis). 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2002/09/22/chrysalis.jpg
[2] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[3] http://www.nevsis.net/
[4] http://www.ai-r.com/meet.htm
[5] http://www.livemonarch.com/
[6] http://www.springdew.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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