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trinityvixenSome of you may not know that we have a mouse in our apartment. More of you know, however, about the pole in the kitchen, the one that gets superhot and burns people and runs from ceiling to floor, the hole it makes in the floor being how the mouse got in in the first place. It's happened a couple of times now, and the mouse would just go back down and we'd talk about getting the hole covered up (there was a metal neck around the bottom but this has warped, probably because the pole is fucking hot then cold over and over), but we never did.
It ended up hiding out in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran's room, and occasionally I'd see it make timid steps out only to dash back in again. I'd been keeping my scarf stuck in the bottom of my door like a draft blocker to keep it out of mine, but feiran couldn't do the same lest she trap it--she'd kept her door open to encourage it to come out.
Sure enough, last night, it did. I saw it scuttle along the wall and towards the pole, and I thought I saw it go down. I resolved to get up from the couch and cover the hole when I was sure it was gone. Then I heard the noise of little feet scritching around.
The mouse was on the stove, sniffing at the pan I'd used to make grilled cheese. (note tofeiran: We need to wash all the dishes and clean the stove before we eat anything off it, okay?) CHEEKY MONKEY!!!
Eventually, to make a long story short (too late), it did go back down the hole in the floor, and I promptly duct-taped it and re-bent the collar around the pole. I don't trust the metal to stay that way, but I'll have the super fix it before we move out--god knows, the rental agency will do it's damnedest to make us pay for what broke without anyone touching it ::rolls eyes::
You know what makes watching LOST less sexy, even when all the cute boys are out and sweaty? Seeing the guy who plays Sawyer on CSI reruns beforehand. It kills me. He's got short hair, he was playing something of a glory-hound loser valet who was friends with Nick. With Nick! With Sir Nicolas "I-Cry-Almost-As-Often-As-Jack, Maybe-We-Should-Start-A-Club" Stokes! He's looked down upon by Nick. It almost ruins some of Sawyer's coolness.
Almost : - )
It's time to kill Kate and for someone to tell Jack they like him best then screw his ever-living brains out. Kate being caught by the Others and being used against the woodsy trio pissed me off probably more than all of the other Kate crap combined. On the one hand, I'm muchos impressed by the Others managing to catch her, since, I'll admit, she's pretty wily. On the other, yeaaah. Kate, you are useless. We have Locke to be the better hunter/tracker (and Eko! Eko!!). I find almost all the other women more attractive than you (and even in the stick-insect skinny contest, you lose to Sun), including Rose because she's just a beautiful person, and even Libby, who looks bedraggled even now that she's on the happy side of the island. What else do you bring? Nothing! Get lost! Er, get lost more!
As for Jack, well, they managed to make me pity him even though I had sorta guessed that his wife hadn't been faithful to him. She was way too dismissive of his highly suspicious dedication to his new patient (and said patient's daughter) not to be getting a little on the side herself. But still, I felt bad for Jack. He did the right thing, damn it! He was good and true and stopped himself from committing to a huge mistake, and what did he get for it? Not only did he not get to bang the foxy Italian chick, the plain-Jane wifey was leaving him when she was the one having the affair. I guess it's a personal thing with me, as I know I would be almost too clueless to tell if my S.O. was cheating on me, so I empathize greatly with those who are betrayed but don't know about it. Jack's always been a crier, is his problem. I would have cried, too, but first I would have beat the shit out of something. Would be nice if he would take it out on wifey, but that would probably look bad in the divorce filings...
Starting an army, though? Genius. I love it. I can't wait for it. Jack's a leader, but he's not a man of useful action. He's a supra-general, a commander-in-chief who does better with picking the right people for a situation (Locke and Sawyer, not fucking Kate) than with the fight himself. He's got two stellar field officers in Eko and Locke, an actual soldier in Sayid, and a civil soldier in Ana-Lucia (who's proved she can do the cold-hearted thing, so give my girl a weapon, please?). Michael's a bit batshit crazy, but he's a decent shot, and both he and Sawyer have grudges against the Others that make them fine candidates for footsoldiers.
Let me get side-tracked here for a sec: Sawyer calling the Other that shot him "Clem?" Had me howling. I kept thinking of Cletus the slack-jawed yokel from The Simpsons afterwards. Ooh, so many good evil Sawyer looks last night, I was all a-swoon. If I could just nit-pick one thing? Sawyer, why the hell would you travel with your real name? Don't all of your criminal buddies only know you as Sawyer? Wouldn't travelling as "James Ford" give them access to information they're better off not having? I know that con-man has got to have loads of fake IDs, so what's the dilly-o?
And when, exactly, did Hurley find out his name wasn't Sawyer? Did I miss that in season 1? Wouldn't Hurley make some big deal about that? I know Ethan was there to distract them, as his name wasn't on the plane manifest at all, but wouldn't, if names were a big deal, Sawyer not being really "Sawyer" raise some flags? Or did nobody bother to find out because Sawyer would have been mean about it? Heee...
Wow, that's a lot about LOST. I think I'm good here. But, lest I forget,umeyard told me Michelle Rodriguez went into her store the other day. Damn it, why haven't I moved to Hawaii yet?
It ended up hiding out in
feiran's room, and occasionally I'd see it make timid steps out only to dash back in again. I'd been keeping my scarf stuck in the bottom of my door like a draft blocker to keep it out of mine, but feiran couldn't do the same lest she trap it--she'd kept her door open to encourage it to come out.Sure enough, last night, it did. I saw it scuttle along the wall and towards the pole, and I thought I saw it go down. I resolved to get up from the couch and cover the hole when I was sure it was gone. Then I heard the noise of little feet scritching around.
The mouse was on the stove, sniffing at the pan I'd used to make grilled cheese. (note to
feiran: We need to wash all the dishes and clean the stove before we eat anything off it, okay?) CHEEKY MONKEY!!!Eventually, to make a long story short (too late), it did go back down the hole in the floor, and I promptly duct-taped it and re-bent the collar around the pole. I don't trust the metal to stay that way, but I'll have the super fix it before we move out--god knows, the rental agency will do it's damnedest to make us pay for what broke without anyone touching it ::rolls eyes::
You know what makes watching LOST less sexy, even when all the cute boys are out and sweaty? Seeing the guy who plays Sawyer on CSI reruns beforehand. It kills me. He's got short hair, he was playing something of a glory-hound loser valet who was friends with Nick. With Nick! With Sir Nicolas "I-Cry-Almost-As-Often-As-Jack, Maybe-We-Should-Start-A-Club" Stokes! He's looked down upon by Nick. It almost ruins some of Sawyer's coolness.
Almost : - )
It's time to kill Kate and for someone to tell Jack they like him best then screw his ever-living brains out. Kate being caught by the Others and being used against the woodsy trio pissed me off probably more than all of the other Kate crap combined. On the one hand, I'm muchos impressed by the Others managing to catch her, since, I'll admit, she's pretty wily. On the other, yeaaah. Kate, you are useless. We have Locke to be the better hunter/tracker (and Eko! Eko!!). I find almost all the other women more attractive than you (and even in the stick-insect skinny contest, you lose to Sun), including Rose because she's just a beautiful person, and even Libby, who looks bedraggled even now that she's on the happy side of the island. What else do you bring? Nothing! Get lost! Er, get lost more!
As for Jack, well, they managed to make me pity him even though I had sorta guessed that his wife hadn't been faithful to him. She was way too dismissive of his highly suspicious dedication to his new patient (and said patient's daughter) not to be getting a little on the side herself. But still, I felt bad for Jack. He did the right thing, damn it! He was good and true and stopped himself from committing to a huge mistake, and what did he get for it? Not only did he not get to bang the foxy Italian chick, the plain-Jane wifey was leaving him when she was the one having the affair. I guess it's a personal thing with me, as I know I would be almost too clueless to tell if my S.O. was cheating on me, so I empathize greatly with those who are betrayed but don't know about it. Jack's always been a crier, is his problem. I would have cried, too, but first I would have beat the shit out of something. Would be nice if he would take it out on wifey, but that would probably look bad in the divorce filings...
Starting an army, though? Genius. I love it. I can't wait for it. Jack's a leader, but he's not a man of useful action. He's a supra-general, a commander-in-chief who does better with picking the right people for a situation (Locke and Sawyer, not fucking Kate) than with the fight himself. He's got two stellar field officers in Eko and Locke, an actual soldier in Sayid, and a civil soldier in Ana-Lucia (who's proved she can do the cold-hearted thing, so give my girl a weapon, please?). Michael's a bit batshit crazy, but he's a decent shot, and both he and Sawyer have grudges against the Others that make them fine candidates for footsoldiers.
Let me get side-tracked here for a sec: Sawyer calling the Other that shot him "Clem?" Had me howling. I kept thinking of Cletus the slack-jawed yokel from The Simpsons afterwards. Ooh, so many good evil Sawyer looks last night, I was all a-swoon. If I could just nit-pick one thing? Sawyer, why the hell would you travel with your real name? Don't all of your criminal buddies only know you as Sawyer? Wouldn't travelling as "James Ford" give them access to information they're better off not having? I know that con-man has got to have loads of fake IDs, so what's the dilly-o?
And when, exactly, did Hurley find out his name wasn't Sawyer? Did I miss that in season 1? Wouldn't Hurley make some big deal about that? I know Ethan was there to distract them, as his name wasn't on the plane manifest at all, but wouldn't, if names were a big deal, Sawyer not being really "Sawyer" raise some flags? Or did nobody bother to find out because Sawyer would have been mean about it? Heee...
Wow, that's a lot about LOST. I think I'm good here. But, lest I forget,
umeyard told me Michelle Rodriguez went into her store the other day. Damn it, why haven't I moved to Hawaii yet?
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Date: 2006-01-19 05:26 pm (UTC)I've come to realize that people will bug me for info eventually when it comes to rodent tactics. So I thought I'd take a more "proactive" approach and just offer.
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Date: 2006-01-19 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 06:06 pm (UTC)Mostly, experience. I posted a while back how one friend's family has me set up there traps every time I'm over because of how high my success rate is. I also have use "olfactory warfare" to keep all sorts of vermin away (most of which is outside the human scent range). Then of course there is my "the mouse and the chopstick" story... Let's just sum it all up as I seem to have a talent dealing with the little critters.
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Date: 2006-01-19 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-19 06:47 pm (UTC)Sounds like you could use, I don't know, a cat.
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Date: 2006-01-19 06:53 pm (UTC)Yes, mice can eat through duct tape. But it's not like we have overly much incentive or anything. We don't leave food around or cabinets open... Well, anyway, it's really a temporary solution until we can get the Super to come and bang the metal thing back into place.
Then I'll duct tape that down, just to be sure.
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Date: 2006-01-19 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 12:22 pm (UTC)Wasn't he kicked out of the country? By the local police? No reason for them not to use his real name.
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Date: 2006-01-31 03:13 pm (UTC)