Spaz

Yup, yup, Yupperoonies - this is me, a swatting spaz....swatting no see'ems!

Haven't heard that word in a while have ya? - "spaz"...must be from the 80's.

"You're such a spaz, man."
"Did ya see her spazzin' out over there!"
"Quit havin' a spaz, dude."

All those expressions could apply to me over the last few weeks - our house seems to have been full of these dang tiny flies - like fruit flies, no see'ems, I guess, but they are like, everywhere, man.  Totally.

There.  Right on my picture. See it sitting there.  It's not dirt...it's a bug. 

It landed.

I snapped it.  It's proof.

Every night as I sit here I get swarmed by these beasts.

They are beasts I tell you.

Make you go crazy.

Here's how it looks while I'm sitting here blogging...

Girl sits at computer.
Girl types.
Girl frowns.
Girl continues to type.
Girl does a small head toss.
Girl still tries to type.

Girl shakes her head more vigourously in annoyance.
Girl swiftly reaches one hand in the air and grabs viciously.
Girl slowly opens her palm and closely examines it.
Girl sighs.  No dead bug.

Girl types, girl shakes her head, girl frowns, girl blows air, then...suddenly -
Girl errupts from her chair violently and begins to fling herself around the room.
Girl whips both arms up and down...
grabbing frantically at the air, clutching and squeezing, with both of her hands.

Her arms are rotating around her head faster than helicopter rotors while her hands continue to open and close faster than a goldfish's mouth.

Girl is havin' a spazz alright.
A swatting spaz.

And she can't even catch one bug!

No one else can see the bugs!  That's why they're called no see'ems.  (This picture is an enlarged version - thanks to google images - so you can see'em!)

Actually when I was in college, we had to do experiments with these guys - but we called them drosophelia - more scientific you know!  We had to make them reproduce - what on earth were we thinking???

Yup, yup, yuperoonies - spazzin' out about drosophelia - that's me.
Just so you know...I'm real glad you can't actually see me doing this!