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02/07/2003 Entry: "Mice. Or, rather, rats."

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Life in my house is generally fairly normal with random spurts of weirdness, screaming, and the like.

Usually, it's me.

Today, it wasn't.

:)

The last time that someone had a mad fit of screaming - I mean the kind where the person is just screeching in terror or disgust or something - is when I drank a little bit of really old cider that had apparently fermented into... something ... and I hadn't known. I made nasty faces, and told my sister, Sohyun, who drank it.

As I recall, she screeched for about ten seconds before blaming me.

Today, it was a different situation.

I'm Korean. I live in a house where we take our shoes off when we come inside.

We have very very recently acquired a rodent problem.

Can you see where I'm going with this?

My dad, after we acquired the rodents, decided to also acquire some rodent poison - slow acting, so that after the initial intake, it doesn't really kill right away.. they die after two or so days.

Now.

My sister went downstairs to the kitchen because my dad called her... I was upstairs, innocently working on the computer.

When we enter the kitchen in my house, we usually put on house slippers because the tiled floor is too cold.

And, well, I was slightly - honestly, only slightly - surprised when Sohyun let out a blood curling scream.

I might've ignored it (was seriously considering it) when I realized that she was continuing to scream. And scream. And scream.

I actually clicked on the computer clock and she was screaming non-stop for over a minute - from the time that I actually started timing her ^^ at any rate, at this moment I was pretty curious, so I walked downstairs.

I think the only reason I wasn't more surprised when my sister tackled me and -wiped- her foot on me is because I was really tired.

At any rate, I took it well. I didn't freak out, although I did start laughing so hard I couldn't help it. When I saw my father laughing and tossing something gray into the trashcan, I thought that he must've played a prank on her.

Then since my sister started screaming actual words, the message got through to me.

"I STEPPED ON A MOUSE! A MOUSE! A MOUSE! HOW COME WHEN I'M NOT EVEN HOME MOST OF THE TIME AND JANICE AND MOM ARE HERE ALL THE TIME, -I'M- THE ONE WHO ENDS UP STEPPING ON A MOUSE!?!?"

Apparently, a poisoned mouse had somehow gotten into the house (::twitches nervously::), curled up somewhere warm (the cloth covered slipper), and CURLED UP TO DIE. Whereupon my sister stuck her foot in the slipper, thought there must be "something odd" because her foot didn't go all the way in, only to realize that she was jamming her foot up against a dead mouse.

Aside from the fact that my dad had picked a DEAD MOUSE UP BAREHANDED, I think the fact that my OLDER SISTER WHO MUST OBVIOUSLY HATE ME BECAUSE SHE WIPED HER MOUSE-SQUISHING FOOT ON MY JEANS AND SHIRT AND PROBABLY MY SKIN WAS SOMEWHAT DISTURBING, YES.

My reaction: Eeeeeeeeeeew. that's jes nazty.

I ran away from my sister ;_; and she followed me up the stairs and dragged me out from underneath the table where I had taken refuge and she KEPT WIPING HER FOOT ON MY JEANS, AND NEED I REMIND YOU THAT THIS WAS A MOUSE-SQUISHING FOOT? I was laughing and screaming (my screams were almost as loud as hers, top volume too) too much to get away. In the end, Sohyun said that it had to have been a rat because it was too big to be a mouse.

I am SO glad I live on the second floor.

Jayhyun, are you sleeping in halmoni's room when you come back for break? ^.^

Anyway, this was a fairly disgusting experience. And when Sohyun least expects it, I'm going to poison her water again.

[well, not poison, just contaminate. if you just add a little gatorade to water, it tastes really nasty because it really doesn't taste like water. i added vinegar last time, too.]

On another note: it's my grandmother's 90th b-day tomorrow so we get to do lots of cleaning, especially because there's lots of.. weird people coming. Jayhyun, not only are Sung-Jae's PARENTS coming, because halmoni evidently invited them, for reason's beyond me, but halmoni's sister (the perfume lady?) is coming to. I swear to god, I'm hiding out AWAY FROM THEM. ::twitches::

On a last rant (with some inappropriate content): Shinjo Mayu's manga seems to be okay after about a chapter, but for god's sake, I'm reading translations of further translations since I only have the first chapters of two of her stories (Haou Airen & Akuma na Eros), and I should've known from the TITLES, but this woman is obsessed with sex. (A topic that is supposed to be on my mind since my english teacher assigned us to write a scathing review of the TV Odyssey, piquing on the over-emphasis on violence and sex.) The art is nice, and she draws pretty good looking guys, but her manga are really beginning to annoy me, and I can't see why these are gaining popularity in the IRC channels. They guys for instance, are 1) constantly trying to "teach" the innocent-young-maiden-of-their-desire the darker side of love (I would laugh, but she's got whole pages of weird conversations concerning this), 2) always really good at fighting/being evil/being sexy and 3) some type of boss. For heaven's sake, in Haou Airen, the main character is this really, really good looking guy who happens to be the boss of the Hong Kong mafia - yes, the Hong Kong Mafia (apparently Japan isn't good enough) and decides to take this innocent young Japanese girl as his - what? mistress? I can't tell what she's supposed to be, partner-for-life or love-toy, because he seems to use her as either. In the other, the main character is SATAN, apparently, since he's the leader of hell, and one that the girl just caaaaan't resist.

The guys aren't even the worst, though, since a lot of shoujo manga have that type of guy (well, minus the mad lust part). A lot of the time, the girl makes up for it, but is that the case? No, in this, it's the main girls that I think I dislike the most. They're always "naive" and oh-so "inexperienced" and "oh-so-eager", but their conversations (well, talking when in bed) on the girl's part is always punctuated with a "no, stop, stop you can't aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh", and then they pretty much shut up, in terms of conversation at least. Out of bed, they keep doubting themselves because one of their lover's other lovers (ex or current pet) will always discourage them, of course, to the point where they pretty much run off in tears. That is, until they're turned on by this Eternal Fire of Lust. So. The guys are obsessed with sex, and the girls innocently deny it - that is, until their bodies are engulfed by the passion their men ignite in them (excuse me while I vomit and die), and then they turn into BODY SLAVES. The girl in Haou Airen actually leaves behind her MOTHER AND TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS because she can't stand to leave her sexy lover and thus follows him to Hong Kong. Where she wonders, "Ah, does Hakuron love me? He has other lovers! Oh noooooo ~" when it should be pretty obvious that 1) he does, sorta and that 2) he also doesn't believe in MONOGAMY, but that's okay, right? I hate characters like that. It's not even like she's bravely settling for less, because sometimes that can be justified. She's just an idiotic girl who wants his love and touch so much, she's willing to put up with nearly anythiiiing, to the point that she just LETS HIM Do WHAT HE WANTS. He's an SOB, and she's a weepy little annoying.. thing.

It used to be that I really didn't like it when the manga I read had the occasional nekkid scene (TCP has got a lot of those), but at least it's not this blatant, horribly written female fantasy. Something about the strong-and-dark man sweeping the female off her feet is the typical female fantasy, I think, while male ones tend to run to orgies. While watching "The Odyssey", there was one particular scene where Odysseus's man were getting bathed, petted, and etc by Circe's beautiful (and as Merrick said, "Egyptian? Egyptian handmaidens in Greece?") maids, and that was IMO a really twisted male fantasy. I'm reallllly getting sick of all these horrible fantasies (not to mention I also really didn't need Matt telling me in class that he thought Calypso was hot). Does anyone have a good clean shoujo for me? For heaven's sake. I LIKE cheesy romances. I read Good Morning Call, and even the title of that screams "good clean fun", and no, it cannot be interpreted as "good morning, my darling, after our night together", as someone told me the other day. But these days, I'm not finding clean manga ;_; I'm just finding really stupid manga.

My sister just walked by wearing a frightening green facial mask. Does she think that will ward off the rats? I think not.

Wow, four paragraphs on why Shinjo Mayu writes badly. Huh. I must've been more pissed than I thought.

On a happy note: Tsukasa proposed to Tsukushi! Which was great, even if she pretended she didn't understand what he was saying and talked about ramen shops! And ignored the flowers! And ignored him! And ran off yelling about something very random! ^.^ Very romantic, especially because Tsukasa was so funny about it ^^ I look forward to Marg. for Feb 20.