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Sep 11, 2007
losing it The house that I live in is a really nice house in a really nice neighborhood. So, I don't have to deal with a lot of the stuff that I had to deal with while living in Clifton, such as leaky roofs, exposed wires, and all of that fun stuff. However, there is one really odd thing about my current living arrangement. For the most part, I don't have to deal with bugs in my house, but there is one exception: crickets. For some unknown reason, my place is loaded with crickets. And, for the most part, they don't bother me. I rarely ever see them. But, at night, they get kind of loud. Which is not a problem, unless they are in my bedroom while I am trying to sleep. And, this happens two or three nights a week. Whenever it happens, I have two options: a. go sleep on the couch, or b. go on a cricket hunt. Usually, my choice depends on what time it is. I'm not exactly what you would call an environmentalist, but I try not to kill things when not necessary, so if I go on the cricket hunt, I usually try and catch them and throw them outside. The thing is, the more that this happens, the angrier I get at the crickets. So lately, I've been telling myself that I'm going to start killing them instead of catching them. I don't end up doing that, but I feel like I'm coming to that point. And, more recently, I've started telling myself that I need to kill one and leave it lying there to send a message to the other crickets who might dare disturb my slumber. Then last night, I heard chirping yet again. So, I start looking for the offender, but this time, I wasn't able to find him. So, I started taunting the cricket, telling him that if he started up again that I wasn't going to be nice anymore and I would definitely kill it. Yes, I did this out loud, so that the cricket would hear me. I attempted to go back to sleep, and and hour later, it started back up. This time, I managed to find him. I caught him, and then started taunting it again, verbally discussing what his fate should be. Well, as I'm taunting him, he manages to get away, forcing me to start chasing him around my bedroom. I caught him again, and then took him out and released him on my porch. But clearly, these crickets are causing me to loose my sanity. posted
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