debatable

last night at around 1 am, thank jesus i was up late, i saw one of those huge flying cockroaches (they're called "american cockroaches" for anyone wondering. i can only suppose it's because they're so huge) on the wall above our bed. we spent the next 45 minutes trying to find it and suck it up with a vacuum because neither of us could bring ourselves to smash it. i think it may've been the biggest one i've seen since the time when robin and i lived on madison and spent an hour jumping across the furniture like we were playing the hot-lava game waiting for it to get off my goddamned record player (proof that what chris said last night--about them knowing what your most prized posession is and getting on it because they know you won't kill them there--is true) until we could douse it with aqua-net. and it occurred to me that i probably don't know a single person with whom i can't share a similar experience. it'll reduce a grown man to a child, i tell you what. last time this happened chris said "we're going to be somebody's parents someday..."