omfg roaches

[crankylex]

I would explain the last two weeks to you all, but it would take too long. To sum up:

* Spent a week in Atlantic City at a convention for work

* Spent two days cleaning my mother's house for Thanksgiving, finishing just in time to cook T-day dinner

* Remembered how much I truly hate cooking

* Discovered that when Liza came back from Africa with 10 crates of artifacts to be catalogued for her thesis, they were contaminated with roaches. Gambian roaches. I cannot adequately explain the TOTAL CLUSTERFUCK that resulted.

* Gambian roaches, as an aside, are much smaller than regular ghetto roaches. Go figure. I wanted to put both types of roaches in a tupperware container for a deathmatch, but there was no time.

* Did I mention the roaches?

Comments

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

WTF ROACHES?!?! DEAR GOD NOOOOO!!!

*shudders*

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

WTF x 1,000,000 adequately describes my reaction to the crisis.

[ragingpixie.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. Ew, roaches. See email.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it's good to be back. Roaches = gross. LMAO, will respond when I get back to the other computer.

[iheartnickcath.livejournal.com]

You should lock the roaches together and see who wins, it'd be funny.. I'm weird, I know.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that had that thought. I also learned why roach poison works. Roach A eats the poison, it goes back to the nest and then gets sick and dies. Roaches B through Z notice that Roach A isn't move and EAT IT.

CANNIBALS.

[iheartnickcath.livejournal.com]

You should totally do it though, and let me know who wins.

omg, those bitches, their evil!

[spikesleman.livejournal.com]

One of the major reasons I was SO glad to move out of Florida: roaches. Giant ones, little ones, flying ones, black ones, brown ones. Florida is the roach capital of the universe.

Gambian rats, on the other hand, are much bigger than "normal pet-type" rats. From what I hear, though, they don't make good pets.

Hmmm, that's fort of a non-sequitur. Let me see if I can make a connection. Ah. Got it.

Neither would Gambian roaches.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean "palmetto bugs"?

::insert eye rolling here::

Yeah, roaches are the suck.

Gambian rats are HUGE, like 6 pounds huge. They are very person specific when socialized from a young age, kind of like feral cats when "tamed", and VERY SMART. (I know someone that kept them.) I read an article about them being used to sniff out minefields.

I wonder if the Gambian roaches are even now contaminating my local ecosystem.

[spikesleman.livejournal.com]

Judging from the eye-rolling, I figure you also know that the difference between "palmetto bugs" and "cockroaches" is two syllables.

Probably the Gambian roaches are even now contaminating your local ecosystem and making plans to invade other bits of NJ.

[deoradhainexile.livejournal.com]

Gambian rats are adorable! I'd never be able to get one though, my poor kitty gets beat up enough by my normal sized ratties.

Never actually seen a roach(other then ones in pet stores), one of the benifits of living in the middle of freaking nowehere in the frozen tundra of north western Ontario. It's the Spruce bugs that you gotta worry about here. And the earwigs. *shudder*

[jaq-of-spades.livejournal.com]

You do realise this sounds like a script you're writing? A horror movie, no doubt starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and somebody from American Pie. "The Roaches that Ate Manhattan". I mean - they crawled out of a suitcase somebody was bringing back from a trip to Africa - can't you just HEAR the da da da da da effect in the background as the innocent grad student unpacks, little knowing ....

I might have gotten a little carried away. But make sure you post again in the relatively near future so we know you've survived the encounter.

[crankylex.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I can just see the obligatory shower scene, when she goes to squirt some shampoo in her hand and instead gets a handful of roaches.

LMAO.

And you and your damn anthropologists. Always causing havoc IN MY LIFE.

"OMG DID THEY HURT MY ARTIFACTS?!?!"

"YOU HAVE CONTAMINATED MY HOUSE WITH VERMIN, WOMAN!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE CENTURIES OF HISTORY IN THE BASEMENT!!!"