I was walking to school this morning, taking my usual route and enjoying the warm sun coupled with a nice, cool breeze. Perfect walking weather. I had the tunes going on my MP3 player, and I was starting to breathe heavier from trying to walk to the up-tempo beat. I suddenly felt something wet hit my eye, like a raindrop; except there weren’t any clouds, and nothing overhead. I reached up to wipe away whatever it was, but my finger came away dry. Maybe it had been something else, like a leaf or seed? I stopped to look at my reflection in the next store window, and gave my eye a thorough 15 second examination before deciding there wasn’t anything there. I assumed it had just been a bit of dirt or fleck of dust that had hit my eye but been blown away or washed out by tears before I could find it.

The rest of the day was rather long; several classes, one of them going until 6pm. Ugh. After returning home for supper and some TV, I went into the bedroom to lie down on the bed with Care, just relaxing and talking with her about our respective days. She rolled over and politely pointed out that it looked like I had a bit of dirt or something in the corner of my eye. Some kind of… black dirt. I reached up to rub what I presumed just to be a bit of sleep out of my eye, and came back instead with a small, black object. A small black object with what looked like legs and a carapace. I don’t have a microscope to put it under to confirm the species or anything, but it seems to fit with my experience of earlier in the day. It was about the size of a large flea, which means it was small enough to perhaps be rolled around behind my eyeball for the better part of the day, explaining why I hadn’t noticed it earlier during any of my several trips to bemirrored bathrooms. I suppose it’s not that big a deal. Not the most sanitary of things to have crawling around (ew - I suppose, literally) in your head, but so long as s/he didn’t leave any little hatchlings behind, I think I’ll be fine.

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