Magicians up North pulled rabbits out of hats.
This morning, I pulled a tick out of my ass.
Living in the South kind of sucks. And in case you haven't seen my house: I live in a valley, surrounded by trees. Kind of cool; yesterday five deer were grazing not 20 yards from my window. I see squirrels and rabbits daily, as well as a variety of birds... Still, I hate insects. And ticks love to fall from trees. I can't get to my car from the house without walking under trees. I'm also expected to do yard work (our yard = forest). Woe is me. (Also, lightning storms aren't much fun.)
I hate insects. I hate them a lot.
This morning there was
a (grand?)daddy longlegs crawling on the wall beside my laptop. I had it step onto a magazine and let it outside on our front porch to crawl away. (Go, and eat more insects, PLEASE.)
I hate summer. I hate it so much. Why do we have to have such a miserable heat-filled insect-infested sun-sweltering season? Why can't God just replace it with a second winter?
This evening I drank over half a liter of wine and went to Books-a-Million and purchased
V For Vendetta (not the film) for $19.75. Thanks for the suggestion,
Sam.
It's been a long day. I did a lot of house work and played two and a half hours of DDR, burned 876 calories. (As on 5-7 step Standard/Heavy songs.) Then I found I could have run an 8 minute mile and have burned the same amount, and saved myself two hours.
I've read 15% of Jennifer's story so far, and 'tis enjoyable.