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The old Oasis song "Champagne Supernova" has been running through my head all day. Only my brain has rewritten the song so it's "Campaign Supernova," forming the soundtrack to a vision of John Kerry and George Dubya Bush at a presidential debate, reaching out to shake hands but as their fingers make contact, a flash of blinding white light envelops the two men, the platform, the room. As the light fades, we see the debris of a ruined world, bloody flames consuming buildings, cars, people--and a grinning Dick Cheney lurches toward John Edwards, both men miraculous survivors though looking rather the worse for wear, Dick reaching out his hand to John's, John with a deer-in-the-headlights look, mouthing "No no no" over and over but unable to move from the spot...

What's that? Oh, just water, green tea, rooibos, the usual. No, no, nothing alcoholic; why do you ask?

Bleah.

Though my cabinet space is limited here, I've been keeping a decent store of food in my room, what with canned veggies & dried beans & rice & such. Well, my food store is a bit diminished now, since I just threw out three bags full (and I do mean full) of rice, barley, beans, and peas because there were little bugs crawling around in there. Because of the way those particular bags are made, all the bags have holes in them through which the bugs could pass on to new food; so while I didn't actually see bugs in every bag, I'm pretty sure they're there.

Yes, I believe the bugs are harmless. Yes, I'd bet I've already eaten a few of them. I don't care. I do not want to eat more of these nameless insects than I have to. As much as I hate throwing out food I could still be eating (somebody's still eating it, after all!) and which I spent perfectly good food stamp money on, I've gotta get this infestation out of here.

Argh. Must clean bugs out of boxes now. And I was hoping for some bean & barley soup, too.

Gyah.


Edit: Does anyone have advice on how to keep this from happening in the future? Some of the bags of beans & grains had been in my room for nearly a year, yet these bugs are a very recent thing. Obviously if I didn't have a problem till this week, the insect invasion is not an inevitability--so how do I avoid this in the future?