Me v. Killer Mosquito
The weather’s starting to heat up here in San Francisco and my apartment, nice as it is, doesn’t have a/c. So last night I decided to open the door to my terrace as well as the windows in the living room to let the bay breeze in. I went to bed at about 9:45pm and was awoken by what I thought was a dream of me getting pricked by a needle but when I opened my eyes I heard a buzzing sound- the tell tell sign of a mosquito. I looked down at my thumb and, sure enough, saw a new, throbbing insect bite. Severly allergic to insect bites, I turned on my bedroom light and saw a small mosquito on the wall.
I threw a shoe at it and missed. It darted to the left. I threw another shoe and missed again. I saw it fly away. I closed the glass door to my terrace and shut the blinds along the window. I took a benadryl in hopes of lessening any adverse reaction to the bite. I pulled my sheet tightly around my body, which, at this point, was starting to throb from the mosquito venom and turned off the light. I slept for about 20 minutes when once again I heard the buzzing sound. I quickly sat up, turned on the light and saw the mosquito on the wall above my head.
I threw a shoe at it and missed. I threw another shoe at it as it flew to the glass door. I saw it fly around the room. I threw off the sheets, ran out of my room, closed my bedroom door and went into the living room to try and get some sleep on the couch. By now it was 12:30 and I had to be up in 5 hours. I tossed and turned and cursed the mosquito for making me sleep on my less comfortable couch. Finally I went back to my bedroom. I laid back down on the bed after scanning the room for signs of the pesky intruder. After 20 minutes I turned off the light and went back to sleep. I woke up every half hour or hour to check around for the mosquito. By 3:30 am, I was still awake. I finally succombed to sleep until 5:30 when I had to get up for work.
Needless to say, I plan to get some mosquito repelling candles at Walgreens afterwork.
