The war escalates (Marcus)

The ongoing campaign against the little bloodsucking assholes - sometimes known as mosquitoes escalated the other night when we had an encounter of a different sort. The little BITCHES - yes, bitches - the only mosquitoes that bite(for your information), are females; who'd a thunk it!!!(insert dripping sarcasm) - were out in force; unfortunately after I had gone round the apartment and attempted to block up all window sills with toilet paper. I have done this once before and thought it might have helped things somewhat, though it may have just been a dip in the temperature at the time and not in fact an improvement. When the weather cools down, the mosquitoes are decidedly fewer. It's going to be a long bothersome summer.

Anyhow - we were laying in bed, in our cozy mosquito net - thus far calling it a 'net' doesn't seem right - it's more like an enclosure - keeping the mosquitoes IN and with US. We were both tired but not tired, content just to lay in bed and talk in the dark. As we were talking I suddenly cocked my ear...hmm..was that the faintest high pitched mosquito sound....hmm.. I told Courtney and we were both then laying in silence, listening. Yeah, there it is again, there is DEFINITELY a mosquito in close proximity - the question is, is it INSIDE with us or OUTSIDE the net. You just can't bloody win. The paranoia kicked in when the noises became louder. I ducked out of the net - which involves unzipping and re-zipping so they don't beeline straight inside and after mutual agreement, flicked on the lights. You can't just ignore it - that most terrible of sounds. We had to know if they were in the net or not - if they were in, it would equate to another night of pain like during the week.

So I flick on the lights HELLO Courtney immediately spots no less than FIVE of the little bastard..sorry, bitches, on the back of the net. They were outside it alright, but as close to our heads as they mosquitoely could be. It's kind of creepy in a way. So I immediately rushed out of the room and charged back in armed with electro bat. I made quick work of the two that were still on the back of the bed, but had to hunt down the others. Thankfully destroying mozzies with an electrified tennis racket is up there with some of the most satisfying past-times you can do - and day by day, Courtney is becoming more vicious with it. The only rules of using it is you must use an actual tennis swing when taking them out. My most successful kills to date have all been backhand.

Look at em all - evil little pricks of things.

Today i have sprayed around the tops of the windowsills where i suspect they may be finding entry. Beyond that, it beats the absolute hell out of me how they are getting in - and not just one or two either, there's at least 7-10 a night.