蝉，俗称知了，是一种昆虫。 每过17年，在美国东部地区，数十亿只【Brood X Cicadas】知了从地下钻出，开始交配繁殖。 只要有树木的地方，就可以听到知了大军日夜歌唱、没完没了，声强达到90分贝以上，令当地居民烦恼不已。
知了虽吵，但对人畜无害，且具有丰富的蛋白质。 6月19日，阳光男孩前往附近小树林，捕捉知了，补充营养。 知了不会咬人，飞行速度很慢，只要被看见，就插翅难逃。 可是，这天已经接近【知了季】的尾声，所以阳光男孩在齐腰深的草丛里钻进钻出两个小时，也只捉到24只。
回来在水池里略作清洗，然后下油锅爆炒30秒，加少量盐调味。 透明的翅膀入口即化，金黄色的身体鲜嫩清爽，别有一番风味。
The year 2020 started normal. Every weekday, I go to office. Three times a week, I pump those muscles at the gym. Every four days, I visit the grocery store to pick up a loaf of bread, along with other ingredients. Every Friday evening, I have a video chat with my family.
The first sign of problem occurred on Chinese New Year's Day. Traditionally, my mother's extended family would have an annual gathering during the holidays. However, my mother informed me that their gathering has been canceled, because there's a Coronavirus outbreak in parts of China. I thought, well, this doesn't affect me, because I live in Maryland USA, 12 timezones away from China.
The next week, China entered a lock down due to the spreading virus. My father found himself relying more on grocery delivery services. A difference from what I observed in 2017 is that, the gated community is not allowing delivery persons to enter the neighborhood, and my father has to collect his deliveries at the neighborhood entrance. At the same time, I heard on Twitter that the Coronavirus has reached the Chinese community in Seattle, 3 timezones from me.
In early March, the Coronavirus reached Maryland. A week later, public schools are being closed. This is when things started to get serious.
I began my life as a Tucsonan on Aug 04, 2011, spent six years as a PhD student at The University of Arizona. However, everything has an end, and my life in Tucson ended on Aug 31, 2017, after I accepted a research job in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
My apartment lease at University Arms Apartments ended on Aug 01, 2017. I needed one more month in order to finish editing my dissertation. I chose Sahara Apartments for my short-term accommodation.
On Jul 15, I went to Sahara Apartments to "apply for a room". I received a tour promptly, but I was told to apply online, because they do everything online. Despite being a small community, Sahara had a complicated website for all the business procedures, including new resident application, rent payment, maintenance requests, shuttle reservation, and policy violation reporting.
I put in my online application a day later, and received an invoice within a few hours. The invoice indicates that paying by credit card would incur a 4% convenience fee, and paying by personal check would incur a five-day delay to make sure the check clears. WTF?
During my six years living in Tucson, I visited hundreds of local restaurants. Here are my top picks. Those restaurants are all good, and their order within this article does not indicate my preference.
Located in the main student union, IQ Fresh is my usual place for a quick lunch between classes. They mainly serve wraps: shredded meats and veggies rolled inside a piece of tortilla. They offer 14 different meats and veggies, and 10 tortilla flavors, giving 140 choices.
My favorite is the crispy fish wrap in spinach wrapper, with a side of sweet potato fries. Sadly, this particular item has been discontinued in 2015, and I stopped going there altogether.
Tucson has over 50 festivals every year. During my six years in University of Arizona, I have attended many local festivals, and here are my top picks.
San Ysidro Festival at Mission Garden is a revival of an old Tucson tradition that dates back to the early days of Spanish settlement in the southern Arizona region.
There are demonstrations of traditional farming practices:
