Meditation on ice cubes

When water freezes, the forming ice crystals push impurities out of the solid phase, keeping them in the liquid phase. Impurities disrupt the crystal structure, so they get pushed along like a front before the ice. This is why ice cubes are always sort of white in the center - that's where all the crap is.

My refrigerator has an ice maker, but we don't use the ice very much. So the ice cubes sit there and slowly sublimate. Which means that when I go to get one, it tastes like absolute ass. It's all the bad-taste of the tap water concentrated into a little solid capsule.

I just thought you'd like to know why I don't use ice cubes anymore.

*sigh*

I just got a call from a phonathon from my summer camp (Aloha Hive). I normally hang up on these things, but I didn't this time. I recognized the name of the girl making the call - she was in the tent next to me when I was a counselor. We called her Lizard. It was so wierd - now she's a counselor and has been for three years and is at college. I was so adamant about documenting my time at camp I remembered all the names and faces from that year (you should see my scrap book - it's pretty darn thorough. I think I took the photo of every camper there that summer).

Now I'm going to spend the rest of the evening missing camp. Even though it's been seven years since I was last there.

Sigh.

Anybody want to come over for camp song karaoke? I have the song books.

And when I hear those evening voices singing of Aloha, something in the harmony brings out the joy in me...