Long run #2

I woke up at 5 this morning, relieved to hear that it was pouring outside. I figured I'd catch a few more Z's to let the rain die down-- I figured it would be great-- the rain would cool things off AND I'd get 30 minutes of snoozing in. FALSE. It was about 1,000 degrees outside, and all the rain really did was just make everything REALLY humid, like running 12 miles through a tropical jungle. But I survived, and now I'm tired and sore and just resting for the rest of the day and doing nothing at all.

Mike said he only made it about 10 miles (wimp) and he got caught in a downpour. I would have really really loved a downpour! I was just as drenched with sweat and humidity, but without the benefit of a refreshing rain... How nasty.

Also, there was a really ginormous bug in the kitchen today. No joke, it must have been an inch and a half or two inches long. It was a big ugly beetle and the cat was batting it around. My dad kept asking me what I was going to do when Mike is thousands of miles away on a boat and there's a bug in the house. Duh, that's why I'd get a cat. Or one of those bug vacuums. Although to be fair, this bug would definitely have been too big for one of those vacuums, and it was so big that the cat couldn't do anything with it but bat it around-- it was too big for him to kill. Plus, its exoskeleton gave it an unfair advantage. So I guess that's when I'll call the Orkin man... Ain't no way I'm dealing with that monster on my own!

I'm pretty sure the fucker looked like this:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/30114

Gross, right? Only, it was the size of the cat's face. Poor Buster, he never stood a chance. But good job to him for finding the nasty thing. I'm alone in my parents house until I head back to Baltimore tomorrow, so I'm a little paranoid that it had friends. I'm keeping my feet off the ground as much as possible.

More on our week's activities later on! Now it's time for a nap!