My first mouse attack

I have an unhealthy fear of rodents… And I opened my eyes to see a mouse/rat about 2ft from my face around 4am last night. I woke up to loud scratching, coming from the wall behind my bed, and I rolled over to see a nasty booger scamper onto my bed and down to the floor. I don’t think you can fathom the freak-out level. I instantaneously screamed, jumped up on my bed, and started banging to scare it away. This furry punk just looked at me; it didn’t flinch. I’m seriously giving it the death stare (and still screaming), and it’s just nibbling on rug fibers. By this point, the girls had all realized what was going on, and I’m sure our tent sounded like a roller coaster ride with all the shrieks. I called pest control, who politely advised me to grab traps from their office. Um, I’m sorry, mouse-killer. That’s your job, not mine. I’m not pretentious, but I have limits. I convinced him to make a house visit, but I’m still going to delay going ‘home’ this evening as much as possible. If there weren’t confirmed mice in our work tent as well, I’d take up permanent residence at my desk, which is almost how I feel already. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep after the incident. However, leaving my room that early means I washed my laundry and ran all before 6am.

My coworker has cleared his throat 19, no 20, obnoxious times in the past 6 minutes. Excuse me, 21. He isn’t sick; this is unfortunately normal. 22. Yes, we are counting, and I don’t understand his deal. Is he an excessive phlegm-er? I’m going to anonymously gift him a family size Halls cough drops. We’re up to 26 now.

A few more folks arrived from the home office, and thankfully one of them is a friend! It’s good to have my buddy Jeff here, and, even better, is that a)he’s sitting right next to me and b)he’s making the tally marks of the perpetual throat-clearer. I don’t appreciate the random rodent images he’s flashing on his screen though.

I’m really busy with work now, which makes the days pass much quicker. I’ve begun leading Town Hall meetings, which breaks the monotony. I like that work. Time to go!