Mother Nature is Grossing Me Out Today.

Since I moved to Arizona I have been acutely aware of the fact that there are a lot more bugs and animals here than in Utah. It's not uncommon for me to see a couple of frogs or a jack rabbit on the short walk from the parking lot to the school.

That I can get used to.

What I can't get used to are the scorpions, cockroaches, grasshoppers, crickets, etc. that scurry across your path or the huge disgusting flying insects bouncing off the windows at night. They create a loud incessant hum in the air which, after a while, starts to grate on your nerves.

Today was worse than usual.

I was walking in to school at 6am this morning when I heard a loud "pop." Looking down, I saw what I thought was a crushed food item on the floor. Not so. Looking closer, I saw several little legs that were still twitching. I had stepped on a huge cockroach. Disgusting. It was the length of my thumb and twice it's width.



I was still shuddering when I walked into the library and sat down near a window to study. Less then 1 minute later a bird slammed into the window 2 feet in front of me. Sick. You may think, "What? It was just a bird." Yeah. Well have you ever seen Hitchcock's bird movie? It's freaky. Huge flocks of birds break through people's windows then peck their eyes out and proceed to brutally murder them. Yeah. Birds. Birds are freaky.