My apartment has acquired a few new residents: mice and ants.
We've had the ants before, fairly slow little fuckers. They've generally gone away with the introduction of some ant traps placed strategically in the house (on the kitchen counter). We applied this method to the current brood and for a time we thought we'd achieved the desired results. Unfortunately, we were mistaken. It appears that our poisoning has merely killed off the largest ants. We're left with ants that are about half the size of their predecessors. Further, there are more of them. My theory about this is as follows, since these ants are half the size of the others, they require half the food to survive, ergo, there are twice as many of the fuckers. Argue with that! It's science.
The mouse was spotted by a housemate while he was eating cereal on the couch (how he can continue to cereal after learning, halfway through a bowl, that his last box was ant infested, I don't know). Our new house guest poked his head out from under the other couch and looked at the his new roommate. Paul, apparently freaking out like a child, scared him back under the couch and in the general direction of my bedroom.
Also, consider the following:
-The more things change, the more they stay the same.
or
--Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
The same phrase. I'm starting to think that English is really ugly language.
Posted by cs at May 5, 2004 11:36 AMNow that's no way for a rogue philologist to talk. The remedy is to find samples of English as a beautiful language. Or to find samples of English as such a fugly language that even cliches seem like poetry.
Idiot Boy King English, for instance, is ugly.
Posted by: Smith at May 5, 2004 4:36 PM"Cellar door"
Posted by: Randolph at May 11, 2004 8:25 PMis this the last time you posted? or am I that lame?
Posted by: jaden at May 20, 2004 3:37 PM