One more thing to note.

Damn. There're WAY too many roaches in the backyard at night. Tried my night-of-painting schtick due to a (brief) moment of inspiration. After completely setting up all of my painting stuff (which is a lot to do if you pack about 200+ tubes of acrylics and oils... let alone the cd player etc. etc.) I begin painting over a piece I did back when I knew shit about brushwork. Once I finish the first coat of black, I notice the dark spot amidst the red rocks in the backyard. That's when I noticed that that spot was a rather large cockroach. Not only that, there were seven others advancing and one crawling right next to another canvas I was preparing.

What did I do? At first I tried just painting and ignoring them... until one point when a large one faced me directly, stood up on its hind four legs, and waved its arms and antennae at me. Disgusting little insect... I hit right infront of it with my metal T-Square ruler.

Fast forward an hour later I'm fed up with scaring away those damned black things so I figure it's now time to head back into the house. I enlisted mi hermana to scare away the things while I packed everything up and put it inside. Just before I was getting ready to bring the last of the canvases in, I hear my sis calling for me. A roach was advancing and she wanted to know how to scare it off. I tell her to smack the ground infront of the roach and that would send it scurrying. She did what I told her, and the roach scuttled along... towards her.

Sis screams a bit (keep in mind this is nearing 10:00pm when the neighbors are going to bed) and tells me to get rid of it. I figure she didn't scare it off properly since I didn't see it's movement. Followed the same old procedure, but the roach came my way as well. Luckily it quickly made a sharp 90 degree turn and headed for the rocks.

Later, safely inside the confines of the house, sis and I are surfing Dark Angel websites when we see the baby roaches crawling along the walls. I wanted to exact my revenge and proceeded to kill the lil buggers till I took down about twenty in an hour's time... and one fully grown cockroach.

At least they aren't like the flying ones back in the motherland.