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June 22, 2005
"Bug-free"
Since the latter half of May I’ve gotten four e-mails from people writing from their backyards.
Their authors describe the sun, flowers and birds. They imply summer is happening everywhere, yet I, catching e-mail in our backyard-less urban office, can’t partake of it.
I would say that’s not quite true.
Dropping into Volunteer Park for a walk after work, Akira and I got facefuls of those little irritating bugs that are kind of invisible until AARGH!, they fly into your eyes.
These aren’t as bad as other insects we've seen. A spider, the size of my outstretched hand, nearly made me faint when I woke up to find it grinning at me, calm and vertical on my wall in a hotel room in Ghana.
Yesterday a much tinier spider walked into our kitchen.
“Wow," I said. "That’s the first time I’ve seen a bug in our apartment.”
Akira cleared it with a napkin, in a much more confident motion than the time I asked him to remove a North Carolinian roach 11 years ago from my dorm room.
“I like the Northwest," he said flatly, as if reading my mind. "For being mostly bug-free.”
Posted by Dipika at June 22, 2005 7:00 AM
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