I concede the bathroom to you, enemy forces. Inch-long roaches, you can have the toilet bowl. You can have the sink- even that spot near the faucet you like so much. It doesn't much matter to me now. Besides, I stopped keeping my toothbrush in the bathroom a week ago, five days before this new onslaught ( Read more... )

So I squished a roach on the wall next to my bed tonight, as well as seeing one scurry under my bed. Then I walked into the kitchen at 11:30- which I had tidied up/wiped down the surfaces of JUST TODAY- to find a bug for (and on) every tile on the floor, and like 7 in the sink. The empty, scrubbed clean sink. It was a bit of an eldritch horror ( Read more... )

Last week I went to a wine tasting with Ritzke, thanks to Rob S., who works at the sponsoring liquor store and got Ritzke two free tickets. It was neat hanging out with Ritzke and trying different kinds of wine (apparently I like fortified wine), though it got kind of old correcting various well-meaning people who assumed we were together, when in ( Read more... )

A night or so ago I mentioned on Facebook and Twitter that I'd had a nightmare of disturbing proportions. Further details were classified, but at Storytellers tonight I revealed the whole tale, and now that I've gone public in meatspace I might as well share to all of cyberspace as well.

( Dispatches from the Kitchen Bug War, or Why We Had A Power Outage )

Ewww, it's really hot and humid outside, and therefore inside. I think if the landlord hadn't installed this window a/c unit in my room, I would have been a very unhappy camper this week (also: unable to sleep in my room ( Read more... )

Stage one of cleaning my room is complete: tidying up my desk. Stage two involves putting away two week's worth of clean clothes. Stage three involves putting away my sleeping bag and mattress pad and making my bed ( Read more... )

I have won the Battle Of The Maggots In The Trash Can, the second engagement in the ongoing Kitchen Bug War. It was brutal and REALLY FRIGGIN GROSS, but I have rid the kitchen of all visible maggot colonists, thanks to stomping, bug poison, triple-bagging, and the timely approach of trash day ( Read more... )