neurological dryer lint

so who here can remember 1987? *counts raised hands* yeah some of you do. how many of you were in the nati then? if so - i bet you remember cicadas too.

for a kid who wasn't real fond of insects - and i wasn't the trembling-from-being-in-the-same-room-as-a-spider kid, i never had a problem with being around bugs, i just don't like them ON me - the cicada invasion was pretty much horrific. you want a picture of the plague of locusts, try living on the edge of a frickin FOREST. these huge inch-long freaky looking bugs just landed on you at random during the day. they weren't harmful, but clearly i didn't want them living on me. they were everywhere, all over the trees around my house, all over the ground (which crunched when you walked through my yard)... i think i could have handled it if it weren't for the handful of stupid attention-starved kids in my third-grade class ... (anyone with severe stomach problems should skip down a paragraph, you're too sick to read this)

... that decided it'd be fun to EAT them. eat the frickin cicadas - not whole, though - but rip the heads off and suck out the insides. yeah, that chill you've got now, the horrible nausea, the picture in your head, i was THERE, it's one of the most disturbing memories from my childhood. i still get the chills....

anyway. so they're scheduled to return in may. i guess i should be grateful UC is a concrete jungle with virtually no vegetation or plant life. maybe it won't be as bad. although from this article apparently it's the worst down by the zoo. two minutes from my house. :(

i pwned my systems analysis final yesterday. i haven't felt this confident about a test in a long time, so that's a load off. soooo... anyone doin anything tonight?