Friday, February 20, 2009

My friend in the drawer

Today I opened my drawer to get my stapler, and Conks (who sits next to me in the office) screamed, Denis, Denis, your drawer! and then scurried over to the other side of the office. What? What is it? and I peeked around, and there hanging on to the end of my drawer was an extremely large and perfectly calm cockroach. It twitched a bit, and swayed its antennae to and fro. I grabbed a couple tissues to do...something to it, but by the time I was ready for action it had disappeared.

I've checked all of my drawers, and looked through all of my papers. No cockroach, but now I know that I can be doing anything: grading, sleeping, reading--and Cockroach xiansheng (Mr. Cockroach) could pop out of anywhere.

Oh China.

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