scrawls.

scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

21.9.04

while we're on Giant Bugs.

also, in a room full of women, last week in belly class, this crazy freak of a cricket comes out from behind the stationary bikes, and i think i notice it first and the instructor notices me noticing it and gets these biiiig eyes and then everybody notices the instructor noticing it and we're all looking at it and nobody's moving except this hideous bug, including the girl who's been to Iraq and the girl from Brazil (the instructor) both of whom one would expect to be used to some unusual crawlies. it might have been some sort of katydid ... looking at more pictures of katydids ... it didn't say anything ... or squeak anything, i guess ... didn't really give it too much of a chance ... but looking at more pictures of katydids ... definitely a katydid. False katydid, aha! Only about three and a half inches across but that includes a lot of Mostly Leg. i don't know why people say they're all green. so we're all looking at this hideous shrimpy-cricket bug and i'm staring at it too and looking around and nobody is doing anything and the music is still going and we're all looking at the bug, because it's fucking crazy looking, has anybody ever seen a katydid? and nobody is doing the hip pumps any more and all the wrist twirls have utterly ceased. so i go and get my trusty Flip-Flop and thwack it, and thwack it a couple more times to make sure, and it's dead, and i go and get a little paper cup from by the water-jug and pick its weirdo spider-locust body up in it and examine it for a minute, all smooshed, and dispose of it upside down in the wastebasket next to the paper cups and the water-jug. The instructor was absolutely paralysed and the girl who had been to Iraq wasn't looking too tough either (with her thoroughly RIPPED six-pack-abs self - she's great, though). i was proud.

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scrawled @ 04:22