meisa's lagoon

last nite khalid and i went out for a lovely little evening stroll. it was pretty hot, but much better than being cooped up in our apartment. or so i thought -
DUN DUN DUUUUUUHHHHHHN. (dramatic music in case you couldn't tell) (the story i am about to tell is not actually that dramatic.) (i just wanted to use the dramatic music) (i'm throwing in this fourth parenthetical statement for fun here. it serves no purpose) (neither does this one)

back to my story:

anyway, we were walking through downtown evanston and just as we were passing under the metra tracks, a creature ran out in front of us incredibly fast. my first thought was a cockroach. but chicago does not have new orleans style cockroaches. what midwesterners call cockroaches are more like fleas. anyway, the creature crossed our path, and then doubled back around, this time crawling over khalid's foot. khalid's flip flop clad foot. blegh. i thought about stepping on it, but it was such a big bug that i just imagined all the guts squirting out. yuck! and then i realized that they would be mammalian guts - the creature was a mouse. DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHN.