The Crawl
As most long-term readers know, I have two official roommates. If I'm RM1, RM2 is Pussy Willow, who used to write on this very blog before she decided to devote her full attention to the oral satisfaction of freight-hopping vagabonds. RM3 has only been referred to here as Heroic Third Roommate for last summer's triumph over vermin, realized with
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Are you sure--sure? The centi/millipedes we get here aren't your smooth, glossy pests of yore. no: they are horrifying, huge, and skittery, moving at incredible speeds....and they seem to come out in fall. Here is what they look like (i have had one in my apartment that was a full five inches long and is the ONLY pest i have EVER encountered--this includes the five-pound rat that once visited my kitchen, folks--that geniunely freaked me out). I apologise preëmptively for its grossness.
Ifit's not that, then saints preserve us, but i have NO IDEA what it is.
Once while i was tripping on acid i saw what appeared to be a miniature bipedal triceratops that (don't laugh) SKANKED--yes, did, in other words, the ska dance--across my floor (okay, laugh) and looked at me with fearsome intent. At the time, i drew a hurried sketch of it and then wrote beneath its grim visage, "I swear to God that this thing just went across the floor. [Signature] October 10, 1997." Did i mention i was tripping on acid?
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