Personalizing my workstation
Sep. 2nd, 2009 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cl0ckw0rkf0xSince we have assigned stations and all at EDS, I get to put things up at my workstation and store things in my cabinet and cupboard and stuff. So I have a couple of xkcd comics posted on the cubicle walls and a picture of Abe Lincoln with an old school gattling gun for a prosthetic arm. I needed a pet plant though (don't think I'd get away with a tarantula on my desk).
It was recommended by the professionals that I stick with a peace lily or bamboo plant, because those are practically impossible to kill. I'm like, nuh-uh. There's something about a bamboo plant that just doesn't say "lindsay". I deliberated long, and since I can't have a tarantula on my desk, I decided on something with surprisingly similar care requirements - keep the humidity up and feed it a bug once in a while. Safeway has venus fly trap plants for $7. All I need is some kind of miniature greenhouse thing I can set on my desk now so I don't have to keep it in that lame-ass plastic thing it came in and look elegant.
I fed it an ant today. It was cool. First it snaps shut and the ant was stuck crawling back and forth inside, then, since it was still alive (if you feed it dead things, it will open back up within 24 hours and spit it out) it kept stimulating the trap and the trap started squeezing tighter and tighter until I couldn't see it anymore and it was smushed. Apparently it will spend about a week digesting it.
It was recommended by the professionals that I stick with a peace lily or bamboo plant, because those are practically impossible to kill. I'm like, nuh-uh. There's something about a bamboo plant that just doesn't say "lindsay". I deliberated long, and since I can't have a tarantula on my desk, I decided on something with surprisingly similar care requirements - keep the humidity up and feed it a bug once in a while. Safeway has venus fly trap plants for $7. All I need is some kind of miniature greenhouse thing I can set on my desk now so I don't have to keep it in that lame-ass plastic thing it came in and look elegant.
I fed it an ant today. It was cool. First it snaps shut and the ant was stuck crawling back and forth inside, then, since it was still alive (if you feed it dead things, it will open back up within 24 hours and spit it out) it kept stimulating the trap and the trap started squeezing tighter and tighter until I couldn't see it anymore and it was smushed. Apparently it will spend about a week digesting it.
