I still haven't cleaned the shit up. Instead, I am simply paranoid (about what, I'm not sure-- a tiny rodent doesn't pose much threat to my survival, lest it's carrying the plague which would certainly put a damper on my life plans). So when ever Zane has those moments where he suddenly perks up and focuses on some seemingly absent disturbance across the room, I now perk up too and send my attention right where his is. Thus far, we haven't seen anything of consequence yet.

I'm already mentally preparing myself to quelch any screams that I might be prone to emitting upon sight of such a nasty little creature of filth.

Hey-- I'm no PETA member. So not only do I not have any respect for this little mouse, if it even exists, but I also don't care if the thing dies an unmerciful death (brought about, of course, by me).

Speaking of cruelty towards animals, or whatever you dirty hippies want to call it, my mom was telling me tonight at dinner that her neighbor decided to solve her ant problems by dumping half a gallon of bleach down the little ant hill near her front door. Mmmmm, don't you love the smell of burning ant flesh in the morning?

This whole situation also brings to mind a very clear memory of a time when I was five years old and we were having a little mouse problem. I was upstairs in my bedroom on a Saturady afternoon innocently coloring, as kindergarteners are prone to do, when my dad called me down to the basement. And when I got to the top of the basement stairs, there was my father facing me with a pair of pliars in his hand, and dangling from the pliars by the tail was a very dead little mouse. With pride, my dad said, "Look, baby. We got 'em. Don't be scared." Slightly traumatic for a wussy young child as myself? I should think so.

On an unrelated note, I would like to bring up the fact, once again, that most of the hits to my page are from the Porn Fiends United Brigade. To which I simply have to say: Get a goddamn hobby and cool it with your manic search for all things "fucking." Particularly when it involves children, assholes.

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