This Just In: Satan's Preferred Weapon of Choice is the BUG FROM HELL

[tigsara03]

I don't think I ever churned out that DEMON INSECTS OF AOMORI post last year... I know a lot of people heard about my "issues" last spring and summer, but I don't think I ever sat down and committed it to a blog entry. But hey, Spring has come again, and here I am facing new demons.

For those of you who didn't hear about my adventures last year,

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[tigsara03]

Hmmm... No, it didn't have that bulging abdomen (which black widows have, too). The whole body was rather flat and low to the ground, if that makes sense. I've tried to find it a few times online, but nothing's come up. :/

[anonymous]

wow, and I thought northwest Fl was bad.

[tigsara03]

Well, see, the thing about NW Florida is, there are PEOPLE there. And, ya know, civilization (much as it may occasionally seem otherwise ;). I'm living on the edge of the wilderness out here. >_

[mm511]

This post is going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life.

Have I mentioned that I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate bugs?

[tigsara03]

Yea, I've sufficiently freaked myself out. The shower helped, but thanks to Pen's spider link, now I'm just about where I was a few hours ago battling the hornet. o~o

[maelgwn]

I am so, so glad that I do not live in Aomori...

But I do have to come and visit. How is everyone up there? I kept meaning to email you all, and I think I lost that piece of paper that we all wrote on at the recontracting conference...

That Vietnamese Pho was great though...

Josh.

[tigsara03]

Ah! Hi! *waves* :D
I lost that paper, too, but I meant to post to you a while back when I saw your news about Mr. Science leaving (coping w/ that ok? ;), but it apparently slipped my mind sometime on the bus ride home. ^^;
Everyone's doing well up here. Kathleen's finishing up come this summer (*tear*). ...I forget, who else was with us for the Pho?
Are you recontracting?

Aye, be glad you don't live in Aomori. Ugh. Honestly, I think the inaka is more of the problem than the ken (the fact that most of Aomori IS inaka aside). Even THEN, my neighbors say they don't have this kind of shit go on in their houses--and these are jutaku! The structures are the SAME! >_

[maelgwn]

Totally. Was there a girl called Kelly? I can't remember....

By the way, do you have skype or something? That could be fun!

[tigsara03]

Oh, right! Kelly! Yea, she's doing great, too. I just saw her a few weeks ago--that girl's a happy, happy drunk. ;)

I DO have Skype (what JET doesn't? ;). SN is tigsara. Word to the wise, though: make it clear you know me in the request contact window, and always IM before you call to avoid undeserved bitchy-ness. ^^;

from your mother

[anonymous]

As you mother, I must make this comment, no matter how painful it may be for you to hear: REMEMBER AS A YOUNG CHILD HOW YOU LOVED AND RESPECTED ALL CREATURES? What HAPPENED? HOW did you turn into this pesticide-weilding bug-hater? It's just so sad. May I remind you that I like bugs and that you share a legacy, therefore,of bug-loving? Get back to your roots, woman! Now that I recall, there WAS one incident in your childhood that may have been the turning point: the night that Scott left the front door open and about a hundred hungy Florida mosquitos got into our house. Remember? At first you didn't want us to kill them, but eventually we all grabbed a weapon (usually a sock rolled up into a kind of bug-bludgeon) and attacked the little buggers. Undoubtedly, that was the beginning of the end. Do you still like tigers, or have you changed your stripes on that one, too? LOL
Love,

Mom

Re: from your mother

[tigsara03]

Ok, now I have to defend myself:

That mosquito night (and it was THOUSANDS, thank you, not a measly "hundred") was the end of my "kill nothing" phase, which lasted a damn long time, to my credit.

I don't hate/destroy ALL bugs--I mean, I still toss the dango mushi, stink bugs, and spiders outside. That's certainly something, considering the frequency of them in my house (removing them is practically a part of my daily routine). And I saved a caterpillar today from a new round of pesticides I planted around my house. Moths usually get shooed outside, and I escorted a slug to safety once from my bathroom. So it's not like I sit in my room at night plotting new ways to kill things.

But I have a list of intolerable critters: centipedes, cockroaches, and hornets (the last of which are actually a very serious threat, so there. ;)

Tigers will never stop being lovable and awesome. ^_^