these fucking cicadas swarming everywhere...

one was lodged under the hood of my car this morning, right beneath my windshield wiper just staring at me with those beady blood red eyes, just perched, i thought the wind would blow it off but no - it held fast for a while. then finally it blew away, but thank God it did not get sucked into my window because i swear to christ i would have had an accident.

just random musings on my way to work (yeah i know) today. it's beautiful out, except for the impending doom.

I don't think I've ever seen one of those things in real life.

i'm one of the rare people who think cicadas are cool. that noise they make has always been able to make me go to sleep at night, and they're really cool and scary looking, like little demon robots or something.

Anxiety said:

let me tell you something...

there is a huge woods surrounding where i work (it's a very rural type campus) and there is this eerie 'whirring' sound i hear when i get out of my car to walk in the building. i imagine these huge legions in the trees and it kind of scares me.

i had a praying mantis fly in my car once and i veered off the road screaming. fortunately it was into a driveway.

i opened my passenger door (he was just chilling on the passenger seat) and yelled for it to get out.

also while i was stopped at a light i looked to my left and this woman had her bare feet up on the dashboard in front of her.

I HATE FEET.

they were nicely pedicured and everything, but ew. i wondered if anyone else in the SUV minded. i can't even deal with that. i have seen people put their feet up out the window. it's just nauseating.

i have heard that if you see a black man country line dancing, pack your shit up and run because that is a sign of the apocalypse.

starkitty said:

awwww, praying mantises are cute. it probably just stood there and cocked its head at you while you were screaming at it, didn't it? i think preying mantises have weird, un-insect-like personalities.

and then again, they eat their mates after sex.

starkitty said:

They're pronounced "cicadas."

Anxiety said:

it's illegal to kill a praying mantis in massacusetts.

i'm like you, anxiety i like pray manti and cicadas

2the9s said:

like 'si-kay-da'

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oh Anxiety why do you hate me

mm-hmm

y'all think i'm crazy

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starkitty said:

Don't be ridiculous.

oh my GOD it's him

starkitty said:

i don't hate you, god damn it, just choose your words with care and i won't get riled.

(i agree with you on the feet thing, though - feet are gross. they're nasty. they should be hidden from public viewing at all times. we as a society should be more ashamed of our ugly feet. our ugly, dirty feet.)

if it's once every 17 years then this is the first i've seen them

i don't get it. what's with the 17 years? when will they all die and go away?

Anxiety said:

feet are only ugly and dirty if you don't wash them. soap, water, and moisturizer are beautiful things.

Anxiety said:

oh you hate me you posted that vile picture

what about black widows, they do the same

JasmineFire said:

manti (that's the plural form?) are fun to play with - they're very social and they're actually really good to keep in your home during the summer cuz they'll kill mosquitos and other bugs, and when they're not doing that they just kinda hang out and do their thing. they're kind of like having a cat in your home, only cats don't eat each other as much.

JasmineFire said:

yeah they're ok, i just don't like them

but baby feet... i loooove baby feet and those tiny little piggies

starkitty said:

oh god no, please not with the black widows. i'll grant you your fear of cicadas and manti. just please no black widows - spiders are evil evil EVIL.

Anxiety said:

do you teach them parlor tricks?

starkitty said:

well, if you wave your finger around in front of them, they'll move their heads back and forth and follow along. that's pretty cool for a bug.

nakedpianoplayer said:

but look how pretty its wings are!

Anxiety said:

dammit anx you just made me spit on the screen.

i'm so uncouth.

They don't exist where I live. Sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock movie like The Birds.

luv4u said:

you should thank your lucky stars every day and night.

Anxiety said: