African nights.

Last night, around 1AM, I woke up because I felt something on my head. This worried me, because although there are all sorts of living creatures scurrying about my house at night, I sleep under the (relative) security of a mosquito net hanging from the ceiling and then tucked in around my double bed. Sounds safe enough, right. Well, the thing that woke me up made me nervous because if it was indeed a bug/animal and I wasn´t just dreaming (I had a nightmare about a snake attacking me the previous night...), then it was IN the net with me and doomed to terrorize me the rest of the evening. So then I turned on my headlamp and shook out my sheets and saw nothing... and then I felt something move IN my shirt. But being half-asleep, I figured maybe it was a bobby pin that fell from my hair or something. SO then I reached into my shirt to pull it out and pulled out a huge cockroach. HUGE. OMG EWWW. I tried to smash it on my bed, but those things are indestructible. So it ran away, but I couldn´t tell if it was still in the net or not. And I was going to get out of the net and check for the offending roach, but there was a HUGE moth from Hell camped out on the net ready to attack my headlamp should I move outside the net. Oh, and the roach pooped on me. Safe to say, I did NOT sleep well last night. How does one recover beauty sleep after something like this?! Oh well, one of my friends had a snake fall into her bed that was eating a lizard at the same time... could be worse.

T.I.A.!