nothing like a...

nothing like a dead bug hidden in a rolled-up tissue paper to clear the insecurities/irks. here's how it happened:

i was having a runny nose and had absently pulled a new piece of tissue from the box and, after wiping my nose with it, squished it and proceeded to roll one part of the tissue into a shape that would ahem, clear my nose more effectively.

and as i was ..in the process.. of clearing my other nostril, i noticed something different about the tissue. it smelt different, a bit like, well, not like woodsy pulpy like tissue paper. so, in the same absent manner, i sniffed at it close-range and wondered why it should smell that way at only one end when i had used - well, both ends. and since i found it impossible to describe..

...i moved my hand from under my nose (still holding said rolled tissue) and looked at it. when the image came to focus (close range peering) i hollered and tossed the soiled thing into the crevice between my bed and the wall: there it was, the offending thing, all legs and feeler cocooned within the layers. yes i saw only one feeler.

no i didn't think the OTHER feeler was stuck in my nose then, i was too surprised for that.

and no i didn't know what insect it was, since my immediate concern was that it was far away from me, not identification.


...

it was two cartoon episodes and vigorous huffing exercises later, i decided that i'd rather it rot in the wastepaper bin than behind my bed, if it were really dead of course (some insects do play dead, you know)..............


thus with my thumb and forefinger i picked up the flung tissue and looked at it gingerly, if there's any way to look at anything gingerly.

the good news? it's dead, it's not a baby roach. the bad news? there's ONE, just ONE, but it's there anyway - bug, very much smaller than the original dead one, looks like a mite (yes, it's that small) not far from where the dead bug is. i don't know if it's one of those lil mite-like things that live off other deceased bugs and if it is i'd just had the entire dead bug's worth of it up my nose.......


well. crawling skin aside: the consolation is that no part of the bug could have been left inside of my honker (i'd've felt the scrape if it were).

...i think i'll go back to my anime. >.<