Not awake yet.

[nacht_musik]

This morning, upon getting in the shower, I was so groggy that I was confused when the tub initially produced cold water when I turned the hot water on. Yet, utterly unasked, some part of my brain offered forth the phrase "rogue foraminifera" when I scanned the tub for stranded ants. I think perhaps it meant to say "hymenoptera", but got confused by the false cognate with formic acid. And, well, did I mention the groggy?

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[coraline]

be careful, or people are going to start thinking you write in this thing or something :)

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

so did you find any ants?

[coraline]

no -- there have been maybe 2 or three than i know of since we've gotten back and blocked the hole.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Well, hymenoptera is the order, but formicidae is the family for ants, so you weren't that off. (When I went to verify the name, I was disturbed to realize that there are all these finer-grained categories in between the ones we learned in middle school (here (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=36668&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock)). But unsurprisingly, the order and family names were the most familiar-sounding.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

er, in the page i linked to, the "lineage (full)" at the top is the interesting part and if you mouse over the words, it says what level of classification each is.