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An Asian lady beetle just bit me on the neck.

At present count, I have accumulated (despite the frequent use of Deep Woods Off) fifteen mosquito bites over the course of two days. Their distribution is as follows: one on my right forefinger, four on my left lower leg, and ten on my right leg. Yes, ten on the same leg. A whopping four of those are located in the warm crevice of the back of ( Read more... )

One night during my Christmas vacation, I awoke with a pressing need to urinate. I cannot remember whether alcohol had been consumed on that particular evening or my bladder woes were simply the result of a constant consumption of liquids (as I was battling some sort of superflu at the time, and indeed may still be), but, regardless of the origin ( Read more... )

Either I have an ingrown hair from shaving my scrotum last week or a spider bit me on my right testicle.

Neither option particularly delights me.

There are two mosquito bites on my arms, one old, one new. Both bites are on the left arm ( Read more... )

Last night, I sat down to a hideously oversized plate of Caeser salad when some sort of red hornet the size of my thumb flew down and began traipsing about on my lettuce. I ended up killing it with a hardcover copy of Leonard Shlain's The Alphabet versus the Goddess, getting salad dressing on the cover in the process ( Read more... )