onset of the monsoon

last night it rained, thundered and lightninged (not a word? well, it should be). this marks the beginning of a lot of things - cooler days(hopefully), clothes that don't dry, fungus in my computer's usb ports (whaa..?), getting wet in the rain, colds because of the previous, classrooms smelling of wet sock (ugh), the great evil - mosquitoes, and the lesser evil - i don't know what the are called.

They are these inch and a half long insects which seem to be all wings (2) and no body. really. i once picked up a dead one of these and except for a bit of whatever holding the wings together, there was nothing else. no eyes, no nothing. and they just fly in in droves at the evenings, at around 6ish and bring this wet laundry basket smell with them. a very nausea-inducing smell. and they die in droves too, by the morning. you can imagine the mess we wake up to. for some reason they seem to prefer the wash basin as a fitting place of demise. imagine dragging yuorself out of bed on a saturday morning, picking up your toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and towel, trying to convince yourself that it is not the end of the world that your stomach is trying eat itself, that you have finished half of the bottle of antacid that you bought yesterday and then coming upon THAT sight. there were so many of them that white of the wash basin wasn't visible. enough to make me lose my dinner and breakfast that i hadn't had. i didn't. but it's the thought that counts.

this is what i have to look forward to for the next how many ever days.

do you think anything could depress you more after this? i love the taste of colgate. no reason in particular. it's a childhood thing, i guess. but, for the past week i've had a series of fever, cold, diarrhoea and vomiting and because of that, my taste buds are rebelling at everything, even water. so, when i was brushing my teeth, i found myself very depressed that i didn't like the taste of colgate. i hope it is not a lasting thing.