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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

my skin is still crawling

My skin is still crawling. We were walking back at dusk from the street where the kids ride their bikes (we live in a hilly neighborhood and this is the only accessible level street; it also has minimal traffic) when we noticed a veritable swarm of huge carpenter ants on the rail fence around our front yard. Carpenter ants are bad enough singly -- when they are seething, oh eew. I mean, it could be worse. It could be centipedes. (oh no it couldn't, no no no, banish that thought, the nightmares! the horror-movie-worthy nightmares!).



Anyway, this is another Good Time To Be Renting -- I called the landlord and he'll be sending the Orkin man around to our carpenter-ant smorgasbord of a house as soon as possible.



Oh eew.

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