Bugger it!

As far as bugs go, I am not having a good day. Considering it's only 1:44 AM and I've already two bug encounters, the rest of the day is not looking up either. First, I come home after a night of Vietnamese food, buying books at Borders, and babysitting for the kids down the street (who have ant problems in their house, I should have known right then that'd be the start of it.) I sit down in my room with a book and my laptop, start to read when all of a sudden there's a loud persistent buzzing noise. I look up. A fly has somehow found its way into my room and is buzzing around like mad. A HUGE fly. A LOUD fly. And a STUPIDLY PERSISTENT fly. I try and ignore it at first, but it doesn't stop buzzing! Ugh. So I try and shoo it out. No luck. I keep the door open, reading and listening to that annoying buzzing when all of a sudden it comes close. Aha! I shove it out the door with my book. Unfortunately it comes back in before I can close the door. Three more tries and no luck and I give up. Ten minutes later, even more annoyed by the sound of the buzzing I try again. Success! The fly is out, the door is closed. Then all of a sudden I hear a faint muffled buzzing and the sound of a fly hitting my door. It's trying to get back in! Why on Earth?! Plink, plink, plink, then all of a sudden the buzzing isn't muffled. The freaking fly just flew under the centimeter crack under my door and back into my room! It's buzzing around everywhere! Why does it like my room so much?

Well, no matter, I finally shoo it out again, and this time it doesn't come back in. After taking a nice relaxing shower and forgetting about the fly, I pick up the book I'm reading, I just bought today: Exploring Chaos edited by Nina Hall. As I'm reading I get up to page 60, and it talks about fluid dynamics. Smack dab in the middle of the page there is a flattened half of a mosquito with a little flattened wing. On the middle of page 61 is the other half. I just bought this book! Someone in the bookstore decided it was a good idea to just pick up a random book and smash a mosquito in between pages 60 and 61! Because of course they had NOTHING else to smash it with. Yeah, right. So I just cleaned as much as I could off with a random sock but seriously? I am not having a good bug day.


Sachi