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They're trying to eat me...
12:10 PM, Tuesday, 6 March, 2007
Port Moresby has been awash (afly?) with mosquitoes lately. On Saturday morning I was laying on the couch at Kym's house, as I am wont to do somewhat regularly, and my legs were burning from all of the biting that was happening. There's still one bite on my upper thigh that hurts somewhat like a bruise, and just won't go away. Ew.
Yesterday I was working very hard, and an Evil Wasp came flying into my office. It buzzed around the light for awhile, being buzzy and bumpy and annoying:
But then it took a liking to ME, and it started attacking me. It would fly around and around me, and then land very gently on me. I wouldn't noticed that it had landed on me until I looked at my arm or my hand or whatever and, "EeeeeeEEEEE There's an EVIL WASP on me!"
I would shake, and freak out, and then it would fly away to the light and continue its buzzing, then its attacking. It literally chased me in circles around and around my office, at which point somebody saw me running around and around my office and stopped to laugh at me. Unfortunately that somebody was The Warden of Women (for ease let's call her The WOW) who thinks I'm nuts at the best of times. When The WOW saw what was chasing me she refused to come in and save me, despite my pleas that I'm a woman and henceforthwith her ward. The WOW gave me lots of encouragement as I shrieked and valiantly drove it out with a newspaper. Then she locked herself into her own office so the Evil Wasp wouldn't come in and eat her.
I am now patrolling the corridors with a newspaper, and a girly "Eek" on the tip of my tongue, just in case.
The Face of Evil: Observe the beady, calculating little eyes; the nasty grin on its face; the deadly intent...
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You'd laugh if you had seen me yesterday. I was trying to sleep but couldn't because of the mosquitoes. I ended up doing what they call "horizontal dancing" i.e. wriggling around on my bed trying to chase the 'quitoes away. And there were lots of them in my room. I think more than 20 flying around and hiding behind my curtains ready to eat me.
Posted by: Paul | March 7, 2007 9:28 AM
ooh. muchly sorry about that one - i did kill it actually. but i think there is another in its place.
Posted by: kk | March 7, 2007 11:50 AM
OMG Paul I thought for a minute that you were going to tell me all about ANOTHER kind of "horizontal dancing"... Sorry about the mosquitoes, and be careful, coz there's lots of malaria hanging around your side of town!
kk - what?
Posted by: Carolyn | March 8, 2007 3:03 PM