sooo i wasn't intending to write another entry THIS quickly, but news to me is now news to you.
i just caught a cricket in my room.
not a spider. not a fly. not a random bug. not a mouse. not a cockroach. none of the typical "pests" found in homes. but a cricket.
the kicker -- this is my second time. i don't know what's wrong with my place, as i had zero problems back when i was living with ed (same apartment complex, different apartment), but in the short 6 months that i've been here in my current abode, i've found and caught 2 crickets. as a side note, they're pretty hard to catch. this time was a lot easier cuz i knew how to catch it, but my first time took forever. little bugger kept jumping away every time i moved close. and it doesn't help that they have erratic jumping patterns that my eyes can't follow and that their color (dark brown w/ some black) blends in so well with my carpet (brown) and the other things around my room (brown boxes, dark brown bookcase, brown couch, brown desk, etc.
but anyways. i guess i could have written this out in story-format and made it all suspenseful and interesting. but i have a lot to do, so i just wanted to throw it out there. the little bugger is currently sitting right next to me, trapped in a container. i'll deal w/ him later. seriously though... i was busy doing some work on the computer and it just crept up right next to my speakers. lil' punk.
man... now that i think about it, i've caught some weird things in my apartments. mice (not with mousetraps, but with a bag), crickets, giant spiders (not the typical household spiders, but one that was as big as my palm--not an exaggeration, it looked like the kind of spider you'd have for a pet), praying mantis (well i didn't catch this one. but i did try. like a little girl. actually not even like a little girl)...
i hate bugs. but now that i think about it... i guess finding a cricket is a lot better than a cockroach, or a huge spider, or a mouse, or a praying mantis.
the real question, however... how does a cricket get into my room in the first place? i've checked all the walls, corners, etc, and can't seem to find a hole anywhere. strange.
oh and another thing: having night classes does NOT help my sleeping schedule at all.
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night clases suck. I remember the days when we used to fight the spiders that we caught. wait, was that with you?
I caught a tiny little praying mantis before. btw i beat mgs4. fun, short, and LOTS of movies (almost all movies)
bummer about the night classes.
Maybe you're starting to see crickets because you got rid of the cricket predators. lol.
Study hard... and hopefully no more chirping crickets for you.
remember the praying mantis that michelle caught for us.....
i remember on a AZ mission trip with a youth group they caught a tarantula, only to have been bitten by one later (diff. spidey) by the same person who caught it. I still laugh at his mishap. My sister's place has a lot of crickets to the point where she invested in a vacuum machine specifically to suck up all insects including crickets. Maybe you can request one for your b-day :P
no wait... i take that back... since I only read the relationship part of your last entry.... maybe you can ask for a GF instead
you should explain how to catch a cricket, I really think that would be yet another amusing entry by Eddy Choi. You are a good story teller.