here's a quick recap before i launch into my disgusting story of the day: after divya and i moved into this apt, we had quite a few problems with pests. of course, there was the infamous mouse which i had mentioned in an entry before. (he, by the way, made a few appearances in recent days until ricardo found a hole in our living room closet - coincidentally the mouse's favorite 'hiding place' - and sealed it!) i also had some very unwelcome, unsightly visitors in my attached bathroom ever since i moved in... ROACHES. yes. they are beyond doubt the most disgusting creatures, ever. i was so beyond mortified when i saw them in my room/bathroom. *shudder* anyway, so we complained to ricardo about all of this, and he immediately brought in the exterminator. that guy came about a week and a half ago. he sprayed all these things, sealed up cracks and holes, etc, etc. the next couple of days i found quite a few dead roaches in my shower. since then i hadn't seen a roach in my bathroom or room or anywhere in the apt, so i was at ease, thinking the extermination did its job. little did i know...

so, this morning i got a nasty lil surprise. (i'm cringing as i'm writing this, because even thinking about it is making me queasy inside!) i have this pretty bright orange silky drape over my bed. as in, it is directly over my head as i am sleeping in bed. it drapes over both sides of my bed, but it doesn't cover the whole bed. the drape's width as it hangs from the ceiling over my head will only go as far as maybe the midsection of my stomach. they are not very long, so they don't even touch the floor. the way i have them pinned up, they are sort of hugging the walls on either side. ANYWAY.

i woke up at like 6 because the right side of my mouth was hurting (my wisdom tooth is pushing out on the bottom and it's not a pleasant feeling). i was rolling around in bed for a little, and then fell back asleep. my alarm went off at 7:20, and i snoozed till about 7:35. i finally decided it was time to get up. so i reached over and turned on the lamp next to my bed, then put my head back down for a second... and looked up... AND THEN FREAKED THE FUCK OUT BECAUSE THERE WAS A ROACH ON MY ORANGE DRAPE! RIGHT ON TOP OF MY HEAD! oh my god, it was so fuckin disgusting! and scary! and ugly! seeing its fat dark shape contrasted on my bright orange drape was probably the most startling and heartstopping image, especially since it was clinging to it right over my head! i immediately jumped out of bed, and then had to figure out a way to get it off my drape and somehow kill it, without having it land on my bed. right. NOT an easy task as i later found out when i brought out our Swiffer broom/mop to kill it with...

but to make a long story short, i somehow killed it. it took awhile though. i even had to squish it a couple of times with my gym sneakers before it commpletely died. the damn thing was HUGE, almost 2 inches long! ew, ew, ew!

and now, all i can think about at work is how the fuck it got UP there on my drapes to begin with... i've seen roaches on the floor, but i've never seen them on WALLS! but i guess i was pretty ignorant about them, because after doing a whole bunch of research this morning, i found out a lot of things: the roaches i've been seeing in my room/bathroom are sometimes called 'water bugs' because these 'oriental roaches' are mainly found in damp areas, bathrooms, near areas where water-pipes are situated, basements (bingo!), etc; they can pretty much walk on ANY surface, even up walls (wtf?!) and upside-down on ceilings (oh my fuckin god?!), and they are known to reproduce pretty quickly.

that's it. i'm moving out.

seriously though, i've NEVER lived in an apt that had a roach problem... and i am beyond uncomfortable with these surprise visits. i will have to talk to ricardo again today and tell him to bring that damn exterminator back. i'm hoping the one i killed today was just a stray one that somehow escaped the extermination from before, but let's face it, that's just me lying to make myself feel better about this whole thing. chances are there are more of them crawling around, somewhere, and they need to get wiped out, now.

EWWWWWWWWWWWW! :(