h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I haven't had any sleep in days, and why not? Well, there are several reasons, but the main reason? The buzzing. I've been hearing buzzing at night, and I think there must be some sort of wasp congregation happening in one of my walls. Not as strange as it sounds actually. Most people probably wouldn't jump right to this conclusion, but my family isn't "most people." A few of years ago (more than that I think, wow am I ever getting old) we had another wasp problem, except these wasps were hanging out in the wall of my *parents* bedroom. My mom decided that banging on the wall was a super idea, and I don't know if that made them angry, but they came out of hiding and swarmed the house. Literally when you looked out the window you couldn't see across the street because of the wasps. And it took us a long time to find an exterminator through all the terror that would actually come and solve our problem. One guy came to the house and said he had to hire a carpenter to drill the holes in the wall. Yeah right. Another told us he wouldn't touch the place with a ten-foot pole. But we did find one place that came and solved our problems, but not before I was permanently scarred for life.

And now, I think they're back. Yes, it happens every year. No, not the wasps in the walls. In the spring or summer, many wasp populations go on the move, sometimes because a large hive has split and the new partition needs to find a new home. These moving communities will pretty much take any space they can find, and we just happen to live in a house that is over 100 years old and has pleanty of holes and spaces for the growing wasp family to renovate.

So, the buzzing. It has been happening for days now, and at first I thought it was faulty wiring in the walls that was humming. But last night was the last straw. Sometime around 3am I got up from attempting to sleep and starting listening to every single wall in my room to try and track down the problem. I narrowed it down to one wall that seemed to be buzzing when I put my ear against it; one of the slanted ceiling-to-wall connections. I listened very very carefully. I did hear the buzzing, but was it wasps? What I was listening for were basically buzzing sounds that got louder and softer, that would indicate wasps flying around in there. And I think that's what I heard... or is it my over active imagination :\ I was too scared to keep my ear pressed against the wall, and besides, there was nothing I could do at 3am anyway, so once again I've had another restless night with no sleep.

When I did sleep though, sometime around 8 or 9am, I had a lucid dream. It's been awhile since I had one of those. It was interesting.

I also made a guide entry covering Kemetic Orthodoxy's very basics for those who have been asking me: A775884

That's all for now.

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