31 January 2011

Icarus Would Be A Bad Name For A Plane

Yet more from the Mostly Annoying But Also Slightly Gross files: I discovered not one, but two nests of the local breed of sugar ant in my house last weekend.  One was hidden (are you ready for this?...) in the spine of a book on my bookshelf.  The little maniacs had gotten in Friedman's The World Is Flat sometime in the last two months and started nesting in there!  I wouldn't have noticed it, either, if I had not seen more than a few ants surreptitiously winding their ways to the book on the end and away from it.  So I Raided both nests and continued about my way.  Not to be outdone, after lounging and reading (something else) in my hammock for a while, I got up only to find a very young specimen of the same orange spider that has been haunting my steps lately lounging along with me in the hammock.  It met an abrupt and unceremonious demise.  Then, as if things could not get any more ghastly, I was enjoying the last runs of Stargate: SG-1 while they were still available on Hulu, only to feel something gently tickling my leg. (!!) A millipede had somehow found its way nearly up to my knee before being detected.  A poor choice, perhaps – its remains are currently being harvested by ants in the garden.  Okay, that's enough of that; I'm holding my breath for more soon! (or just because the pesticide smells like poison)

Thanks for your patience; here's the January highlight video.

2 comments:

  1. That's awful about the ants nesting in your books. Good thing you didn't find out by accident. One of my professors wants me to read that, but I don't have it. I'm almost finished with Josh's book. Still don't understand what's going on. I'm sitting in a market research class right now. I have 4 classes today, followed by team meeting with a prof. followed by a Delta Sigma Pi meeting. Might miss the last one. it's gonna be a long day.

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  2. Maybe the pesticide smells like poison, because it is poison. Maybe.
    Great music in the video!
    This is Jonathan

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