Points On The Line

Today, as I sat and enjoyed my daily dose of twenty minutes of television (well, I was watching the shows on my laptop but I'm just going to call it TV), the funniest thing happened to me.

Before I go into the details of exactly what happened to me, let me give you the setting. I was sitting on the bed, a half eaten loaf of bread to my left and just beyond that, a half empty bottle of Nutella. The missing portions of both items were on a plate in front on me, with the Nutella generously adorning one side of every slice in a thick dark layer. Slightly beyond this plate, further away from me was my laptop, with its 15.4" screen displaying scenes from Season 3 of DragonBall Z. A USB connector was jutting out of the right of the laptop, and the headset it connected to lay atop my head covering my ears.

There I sat, taking my necessary break from a long days work, and experiencing the joy that can only be found in top class Japanese Anime shows (Did I mention I'm a big fan). 12 minutes and six slices into the show, I felt something crawling up my neck and onto my face. When it reached my cheek, I put down the Nutella decked bread slice I was eating and brushed the creature off my face. I look down upon my hand, and a tiny red ant is scurrying over my palm, obviously annoyed at me disrupting it's peaceful stroll across my face.

I decide that I had better get rid of the little fellow, and shake my hand rather vigorously. I then ran my hand over my face to check if I could find any more of the little critters scurrying about on my face. Now it just so happens that the ant that I had found earlier, had decided to extend his stay on my hand. You know because of Murphy's law and everything. Now that ant casually decided to take a hike, just as my hand passed over my lip. I guess that it was still mad at me for disturbing it earlier, because it then bit me, right on the lip.

I will not even begin to describe how much it hurt... because there is nothing to describe something that hurt that little. Painless I guess would be an overstatement, if that's possible. However the stupid critter still got its revenge. I'm stuck with a lip that looks like I took a real beating. Or perhaps that I got a Lip job that went horribly wrong. The pictures show just how ridiculous I looked immediately after it bit me, and then how it looked after a while. By the way, these pictures are not pretty.