All this time, Stella the turtle is really a DUDE! Wow. All my pets are male, and here I thought there was a 50/50 ratio of males to females in this house. Now I am outnumbered (but never outgunned!)
I guess his name is Stellan now. That’s a good name, right? It’s danish or something.
Ok, it’s Swedish:
Meaning unknown, perhaps related to Old Norse stilling “calm”.
I guess Stellan’s pretty calm (for a turtle, anyway).
How long have I had this turtle? At least 6 years, maybe more… and I never really thought to check (no, not THERE!, you can tell bu the size of the fingernails on red-eared sliders). The old Chinese lady who sold me Stella(n) and her brother(?) Roland, said they were a girl and boy pair. Since females are bigger than males, and Stella(n) was bigger than Roland(a), I made the assumption… wrong! I wonder if Roland was really a chick, or if they were both dudes? We’ll never know. Alas. I suppose it’s good I thought Stella was a girl, because I named them both after songs on Interpol’s first album (it was the only CD that would play in my finicky CD player on the way home), and I don’t think there’s another dude-name song.
Right now I’m waiting for Saki to get finished with work so we can go to this giant BBQ fest downtown. I’ve been waiting for about 7 hours now. You see, he calls every couple of hours to tell me he’ll be here in 45 minutes. Thus, I can’t go do anything else because I really want BBQ! I should have just arranged to meet him someplace at a certain time, like several hours in the future, and it he wasn’t there, then screw it. Why don’t I think of these things before I waste entire beautiful weekend days? I would have gone to the Strawberry Festival in Lexington! I would be stuffed full of real, strawberry-tasting, non-Californian strawberries by now!
I bought some real strawberries at a farmers’ market in Kendall the other day. They are awesome. They were wicked freaking expensive ($6 for a quart!!!), but worth it. It’s a sad day when locally-grown produce is way more expensive than the crappy fruit they ship in from across the country. Alas.
