Rhapsodies

Well everyone this is a day of which I am glad to be done with. As I mentioned in the last post I had the exterminator coming to deal with my Cockroach problem (and trust me, when you start referring to the glue trap you are replacing as the “week’s harvest” you have a problem). The big problem was I had to clear all of my surfaces, drawers and shelves to be ready for them and I had until noon to take care of it. For most of the morning it felt like a loosing battle. Not only did the time seem to pass like nothing, I was also beginning to worry that I was running out of floor space for the exterminator to work.

I somehow managed to get everything ready in time and the end result was my apartment looked like a bomb had gone off (albeit with all the debris stacked in nice piles.) My landlady and the exterminator arrived with time to spare. It turned out that since the cockroaches had enough of a beachhead that we were going to have to do the whole thing over again in three weeks. Which makes me wonder whether putting everything away right away is worth it.

Any way I headed out so as not to be around for the poison. I decided to stop by my favorite bike shop to have them look at what I hoped was a minor problem with my back wheel. Turned out it wasn’t and I had to leave it there to have a tire and chain replaced and I ended up walking home.

Once home I got to sweep up roach corpses which was at least kind of cathartic.