unwelcome guest...

It’s five O’clock in the morning and I am sitting at my desk working on a paper when suddenly I see out of the corner of my eye a little shadow dash along the baseboard of the wall behind my dresser. Since it’s 5 am and I hadn’t had any sleep yet, I suspected I had started to hallucinate. Still, I put batteries in the flashlight and began to investigate. After a minute of inspection, I turn the light off and rose up from my investigative crouch near the dresser. Suddenly, there it is again, only its trajectory was the opposite of its previous path. So I follow it back to it’s origins under my desk and low and behold there is a large crack where a mouse could have entered the house. At least I know I wasn’t hallucinating, but it’s a lot easier to get rid of hallucinated mice than the real deal. So, the mouse hunt begins. This adventure inspired me to write the small children’s story you see below in my previous blog post. Of course you may recognize some similarities to previously read material…thanks Dr. Seuss!