oh my god. wait until you hear what happened to me this morning. i WAS prepared to tell you all about how i colored my hair red last night. and how i sort of only took into account the “medium brown” aspects of it, and not the growing out blond. and about how i now had BRIGHT FUCK OFF RED highlights instead of blond. but i’m not going to do that. cuz i just did. looks kinda punk actually. it’s semi-perm, so it will fade a bit.
anway, what happened to me this morning is far more tragic and dramatic. it’s the kind of thing that makes me say “uh. well. at least i have something to write about.” so, do you remember the story about evildeb, the latte, and the bee? well, i had my own little bug experience this morning. i was sitting in my boss’s office, having a 1:1, drinking my breakfast. which, for those of you who do not know, is a 44 ounce dr. pepper from a soda fountain in the mini mart near my house. i’d been working on it for about 45 minutes. i felt something in my mouth, and thought it was a thread or something. and then i realized, whatever was in my mouth, came from the straw. i had just taken a sip. i spit it out into my hand and it was a BUG!! but it was a long skinny type bug. black. it looked sort of centipedish. i went “aaarrrrrhhhh!” and pam said, “there’s still some in your mouth there is still some in your mouth!!” so i started swiping at my tongue to get it out. she handed me a bottle of water, but i had to make sure it was all off before i could swallow water. otherwise i’d be swallowing bug bits.
near as i can figure, it had to be dead in the cup. because the soda would have gone through some kind of aerator thing. i’m totally sicked out. so was pam. it’s her worst nightmare, she said. i think we both should go home. molly said a wee little centipede is worse than a bee. because bee’s are cute and fuzzy and do good things. and centipede’s are not. and have too many legs. but i’m not sure “fuzzy” should count as a good thing, when it comes to having it in your mouth.
blech. i am going to go buy two naglene wide mouth bottles, in pretty colors of course, and drill straw size holes in the top. [yay! power tools!] and i’m using those from now on. they are transparent. i’ll be able to see what’s inside. and i’ll be able to run them through the dishwasher. plus, molly says they are on sale this weekend, at REI.
