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tatty bojangles ([personal profile] apocalypsos) wrote2004-06-15 11:11 am

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There is a wasp roughly the size of a 747 flying around my bedroom. You know, I'm not afraid of bugs, so I'm not really flipping out, but I just wish it'd stop whizzing around my head constantly, if only because I don't think I could handle it if a tiny monkey appeared out of nowhere, climbed up to my head, and started swatting at it.

I realized yesterday when I got back to Virginia that one good thing about leaving Pennsylvania is that my cousin Laurie isn't around to ask me when I'm getting married. Jesus, I'm 26 years old, for crying out loud. Coming from someone who didn't get hitched until she was thirty, it comes off about twenty times as annoying as it would with everyone else. (I was half-tempted to say I'd get married the day after she had a baby, which would have shut her right up.)

Also, my bedroom is terrifyingly clean. FEAR ME AND MY WINDEX!

[identity profile] hamadryad.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I have only just now realized that you live in Virginia, because I am a dolt. I live in Richmond. Mwahahaha.

[identity profile] vivian-shaw.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Y'know, squirting wasps with Windex is a damn good way of getting them to quit flying and lie squirming on the floor, whereupon you can drop a large book such as Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics on them without fear of being stung.

[identity profile] hamadryad.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Hairspray is great, too. Their little wings get all gummed together.

Not that I would ever do anything so cruel to a living creature.

[identity profile] vivian-shaw.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. *makes mental notes* I bet it works even better if you light it on fire first.

[identity profile] wal-lace.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! I laugh in the face of wasps. Then I swat them out of the sky with the nearest handy blunt object and stamp on them repeatedly with big heavy boots.

Now, hornets are another matter. I had to kill a hornet the other day (it was coming right at us!), and the bastard must have been two inches long.

[identity profile] penmage.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
Dear [livejournal.com profile] trollprincess,
Have you heard about this?

Just wondering,
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2004-06-15 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
You're older than I am? *boggles*

[identity profile] cmstephens.livejournal.com 2004-06-15 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell, I'm 26... and chronically single. Good thing I don't have anyone on my back asking about it, either...

[identity profile] qnotku.livejournal.com 2004-06-16 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you ever buy that chair you were talking about? If and when you do, would you mind rolling our old chair back to our bedroom? The chair SJ has been using has gone to that big bargain basement in the sky.

How'd the wasp get in, btw? From the balcony?

T