Winning by just over 700 votes, and receiving 70% more votes than it has residents, the Vermont Springfield is the new official home of Mr. Groening’s show. Honestly, I’m pretty surprised that (a) it won and (b) the winner had only 15,000 votes, but still, good times. I know a couple guys from Springfield who will be pretty stoked.
Oh, and apparently “clumsy” is a good thing?
P.S. wow, it’s really raining right now! That might seem callous but there is a connections – yesterday’s monsoon took down a couple trees on the green.
One of the advantages of living in a ~100-year-old residence hall is the always-stimulating bug infestations. I should have expected some oddities tonight, given the crazy thunderstorms today and the fact that I’ve had my windows open (with screens in place, but those don’t exactly keep all the critters out) for weeks on end now.
Anyways, tonight I woke up to find a sizable (1.5″ long body, about 3″ total length with legs) camel cricket creeping across the carpet by my bed. That’s one freaky bug, man. I wasn’t sure (sleep-addled as I was at the time) exactly what it was, so I grabbed the ant spray and doused the critter. I later figured out that I should have just scooped it up and tossed it outside, but it seems as though they’re not endangered or anything, so I’m not too worried.
But wait, there’s more! 
As I’m scooping up the dead camel cricket, I notice another critter: a big-ass (about 1.25″ long) earwig crawling down the wall. So I sprayed him, too! I’m going to try getting back to sleep now, but I might just stay up and grade P42 homework. At this rate, I’m thinking I need to keep my eyes open and on the lookout for more insectoidal invaders… 
