attention universe: i never gave permission for my life to turn into a horror movie

[lirazel]

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

I FORGOT IT WAS CICADA YEAR.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

Comments

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Until I moved to the Midwest, I never knew there were screaming bugs -- screaming bugs that did it together as a hideous night-time chorus. I mean really! No more passenger pigeons. No more charmingly weird dodo birds. No more lots of worthwhile animals, BUT we still have cicadas?
P.S. Okay, so pigeons aren't so great, but you see what I mean.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the noise is the least of what bothers me, though I can easily imagine how it could drive you crazy. It's when they fly up at you that I get freaked out. Also they are disgusting looking. GROSS.

Dodo birds are charmingly weird!

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

But in some cultures, they're considered a yummy treat. I'm glad I'm not attached to those cultures. Good protein, probably, but not my idea of gourmet food.

[magisterequitum.livejournal.com]

EWWWW.

Tell them to be gone!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I wish! They're just now hatching out. THEY WILL BE HERE FOR AT LEAST A MONTH. I am going to stay inside as much as is humanly possible.

[magisterequitum.livejournal.com]

Ewwww. I hate when they do that weird molting/shedding thing and their crunchy/dry carcasses are lying all over your sidewalk/yard/drive way.

GROSS BUGS ARE GROSS.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

YES. THE CRUNCHING SOUND. SO NASTY. NOW I NEED TO TAKE A SHOWER.

[magisterequitum.livejournal.com]

GO SHOWER. BE RID OF YOURSELF OF THESE ABOMINATIONS OF HOUSEHOLDS.

[snickfic]

But... but cicadas are nifty.

But I am sorry they're plaguing you. *pat pat*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure. When they're the size of your hand and covering THE ENTIRE WORLD and you keep stepping on them and they crunch and they leave their shells everywhere and they get tangled up in your hair. Reeeeeaaaaal nifty.

;p

[snickfic]

Well, I never saw them in numbers during my southern sojourn. Just individual cicadas.

And the hair thing, yeah, that'd be pretty awful.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can easily ignore them when it's just here and there, as it is most years. But every thirteen years they POP OUT OF THE GROUND AND TAKE OVER. It is like a horror movie, I am telling you.

And yes, I was deeply traumatized last time. 5th grade, and I remember after church on Sun./Wed. nights on the playground the boys would shake the smaller trees and THE BUGS WOULD FLY EVERYWHERE and that is how they ended up in my hair.

Still trying to recover.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Yucky! We don't have creepy bugs in California. Just snakes (there was a snake hiding in a bush on the croquet lawn at work - it was icky!)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Snakes are very frightening. And also creepy--the way they move? Creepy.

You are lucky to be lacking in bugs. As Ireland is lucky to be lacking in snakes. *wistful sigh*

[blackfrancine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. We had cicadas last summer or fall--I don't remember when exactly, but it was recent. It wasn't that bad, though, aside from the constant chirping.

Now, cricket season in central Texas can be a true horror. The lights at offices and schools completely fill up with cricket carcasses--to the point where it's almost as if the light isn't even on. And, I remember in high school, after band practice in the morning, we'd go back inside, and the wall with door we'd enter through was black with crickets. And we'd have to run through because there were so many crickets, that they'd just randomly lose their footing and fall on you if you walked through. It was literally raining crickets.

It sounds like that's what your cicada season is like. You have my condolences.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yuck. I seriously think bug infestations are one of the worst things in the world. DISGUSTING.

YOUR ICON! ♥

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HORRORS

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY THOUGH!!!!!!!

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

I'VE NEVER EVEN ENCOUNTERED A CICADA BEFORE AND I WANT TO SCRUB ALL MY SKIN OFF

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

THAT IS PRETTY MUCH HOW I FEEL THE ENTIRE THEY'RE HEEEEEEEEEEERE.

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

HOW ARE BUGS THE ACTUAL WORST LAUREN I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM ALLLL

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I HATE THEM SO MUCH I ALWAYS MADE MY LITTLE SISTER KILL THEM. I HATE THEM SO MUCH THAT I FAIL AT BEING A BIG SISTER.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

And this is a bad thing, yes?

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

A very, very bad thing. They will be everywhere very shortly, and they are large. I am not fond of bugs.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Cicadas! We get them on the dot of August 1. Big holes in the ground - and the noise! The cats, however sit and wait and crunch!

August is not a good month here. Cicadas are joined by mosquitoes and hornets. Bugs are not like those in cartoons. They are not cute!

There is one kind that has a gross year every 17 years!

Commiserates!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read last night (yay for wikipedia!) that the northern ones come out every 17 years and the southern ones come out every 13. Apparently 1998 was the last time for a century or two that they'll both come out at the same time.

I have just so disgusted by bugs. Everything about them grosses me out.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Cicadas don't bother me.

It's the June bugs that drive me crazy. They cling to your clothes and your hair and make me scream. Nasty, creepy things.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

We don't really get many here. Thankfully. I would probably never leave the house if we did.

[aerintine.livejournal.com]

So sorry for your plight!

I lived in Nebraska for 2 years and when I got there my first question was, "Dear God, what is that infernal racket?" Cicadas suck.

Thank Heaven I'm back in the Pacific Northwest.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the sympathy!

I'm actually pretty good at blocking out the noise (at least, I don't have a lot of memories of the noise, but that was 13 years ago), but just seeing them everywhere grosses me out so much. Yuck!