All Rats are Mice, but not all Mice are Rats

We have captured two mice this week, and after examining their tails with some precision, I have to agree with Bananna that they are rats. Lil segmented pieced tails like one of those cattails (the plant, not the cat tail). We had purchased a live mouse trap, and it did nothing for 2 weeks except give the little things a free dinner each night. We were tired of poop everywhere, tired of the dog going crazy everytime it heard the Pit er Pat, so we went back to the store to get some kill traps.

We looked at them, though, and could not bring ourselves to do it. By this point, enough rage had built up inside of me that I really thought I could kill'em all, but when it came to the sight of those death traps, and the clean-up that would be required, we had to say no. So we bought a bigger live trap instead, for like 30 dollars, big enough to catch chipmunks and small squirrels. Big enough indeed, since the first day we set it we caught two. We know there is at least a third, and now I check the trap even more obsessive-compulsively than my email. I like not killing things, California.

Why I Don't Like Standards Haiku

Forced into straight lines,
it's easy to imagine
the desire to break.

Mousetrap, Mouse's Perspective Haiku

Chain-linked space, Swinging
trap door, Metal plate trigger,
Feast of bagel chips.

Lists of Five

Concerts I Thought About Yesterday:
1. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, World Music Theater, Tinley Park, IL, 1997
2. Table Mountain Gun Club, Pat Ford's Living Room in Milwaukee, WI, 1999
3. Sigur Ros, Civic Opera House, Chicago, IL, 2006
4. A Tundra, Silent Barn, New York, NY, 2007
5. Icy Demons, Abbey Pub, Chicago, IL, 2007

Not That You Care, But I:
1. Had fish for dinner
2. Will be wearing hiking boots for the next week
3. Am mildly interested in baseball
4. Have come to the sad conclusion that I must kill the mice that have made my house their home
5. Saw an episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job today

Five More Things:
1. Quilt
2. Cheetah
3. Applesauce
4. Petal
5. Garage

Scarves I Own:
1. EuroCup 1996, Germany, black & white
2. Hand-knit, extra-long by Anna
3. Kafiya, black & white
4. EuroCup 1996, Germany, teal
5. Soft-n-gray

Blogga day

A blog a day in the month of May, plus five months. Though now that I've boasted this goal in public, failure is inevitable. So people, here it is: The blog about my intention to blog. It is day three and I have already resorted to this.

In other news, my hair is shorter than my dog's, the fern in the living room is currently in silhouette, water is still delicious, and I cut my finger but I don't know how.

OMG 4REAL? Haiku

Morning sunlight seeps
through blue bamboo, bringing me
my daily sickness.

It's October now

According to the calendar, at least. In my mind it is Spring and the Summer is a month or two away. & yet & yet the leaves are changing, the harvests have come and gone, and the sports teams, most all of them, are battling each other in their respective fields.

I suppose I'll return to the corn maze to get lost in the dark following my own sense of direction. Once again I'll give up after 21 minutes and begin walking straight through the corn, my quick direct route to departure.