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I am the Compost Manager at my housing coöp, and it's a ridiculous title. Anyway, I've been procrastinating on my duties for a long while, so tonight I went out and sifted one bin of compost, separating the leftover fruit pits and branches and plastic remainders from the compost itself. There's a fair amount of ants at the coöp, and obviously the bins are prime grounds for ants to gather food and stuff. So while I was doing the work, ants were climbing on me and biting me. Not a lot of them, but enough that I had to crush/chase one away every minute.

Now, I'm VERY ticklish and sensitive to light touching. I had an incident when I was kid, mowing the lawn, rubbing against a medium fir tree where many ants got onto me, and since then I'm very wary of them. So anyway, ants climbing on me for an hour... Now it's hours later and every goddamn itch on my body feels like an ant. I know intellectually that it's not (though I killed one an hour after leaving the bins, so IT COULD BE) but I'm just going nuts. Please send a flamethrower, or a dry suit.

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Just finished watching the Captains documentary. Man, Shatner is such a twit. You can see Brooks barely tolerating him, Mulgrew deciding to make the best of it while pushing back, and Stewart just deciding that it would be best if the doc was about him instead (which was a smart move).