Journal 7 by Beckie Sealock

Hmmmmm, what should I talk about????

Do you know that Cincinnati has a lot of bugs? Really, it's true. I'm from Pennsylvania, and I have never seen so many different types of bugs in my life.

Maybe it's the flat land out here, maybe it's because Cincinnati is so much farther south than Pittsburgh is, I don't know. But after I moved here, last November, I kept seeing this one bug in particular in my boyfriend's apartment. It was long; about 2 inches long, it was brownish in color, and it had a thousand legs...and it freaked me out the first time I saw one.

Every-time I found one, I would kill it with a napkin, a shoe, or whatever I could find. But one day in particular, I killed one with a fly-swatter. It was a perfect kill, no guts flying anywhere, no legs disengaging from the body...just a perfect kill. So I left it where I killed it, on the window sill in our bedroom. So when my boyfriend came home, I told him about it and took him by the hand and walked him to the bedroom and showed him the perfect kill on the windowsill. I asked him, "What is this?" He looked at it, said "I don't know", gave me a funny look and then walked away.

Now, this was just getting on my nerves...every-time I turned around there was a new bug in that apartment. I swear to this day that that apartment was haunted. I swear that it was built on top of an Indian burial ground or something.

Then, frustrated as all heck, I tried to look it up on the internet. I wanted to find out where all these damn bugs kept coming from so I could nip it in the bud so to speak.

So I looked, found a couple of them on the internet but couldn't decide which one was my bug. I think it's a millipede, but I'm not totally convinced.

We have moved since then, right down the road to a bigger house. Our landlord moved into our old place.

Guess what? I left the bug on the windowsill.