Current location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

11
May
I’d like to tell you a story. Yesterday I went to a prayer meeting. I left my computer on my bed and was gone for maybe three or four hours TOPS. When I returned I found my computer covered in ants. ANTS. Ants weaving in and out from under my keyboard. Ants piling into my headphone jack. Ants toppling over one another to exit from the usb port. At least a hundred ants. So I did what any reasonable person would do… I picked up my computer and shook it, hard. Ants poured out and fell onto my bed. Let me pause here and tell you what I know about these ants. I noticed them the first night I arrived here. They run up and down the walls. They are everywhere. And where there is food, they are multiplied by ten. I currently have my swedish fish candy protected by three layers of ziploc bags. I won’t even tell you what happened to my chocolate. They nonchalantly (and rudely) crawl over my feet and up my legs. They are small red ants with black butts (or bums as I would prefer to say). They bite but it doesn’t hurt too much. It’s more like, “What is that pinching sensation? Oh, it’s an ant.” Ok, back to my story. So, I’m shaking my computer and ants are flying everywhere and I don’t care. Once I don’t see anymore on top, I set my computer down on the bed and begin to kill some with my hands. First they came out five at a time, then eventually it was one by one. So for an hour, I killed ants one by one. I became convinced that they were hiding inside, aware that I was waiting for them. So I googled “How To Clean The Inside of Your Macbook”. I spent the next three hours unscrewing screws and pulling apart my computer. I thought I got all of the ants, but every once in a while I see one or two poke their heads out. I think they’re mocking me from inside my hard drive.

I’d like to tell you a story. Yesterday I went to a prayer meeting. I left my computer on my bed and was gone for maybe three or four hours TOPS. When I returned I found my computer covered in ants. ANTS. Ants weaving in and out from under my keyboard. Ants piling into my headphone jack. Ants toppling over one another to exit from the usb port. At least a hundred ants. So I did what any reasonable person would do… I picked up my computer and shook it, hard. Ants poured out and fell onto my bed.

Let me pause here and tell you what I know about these ants. I noticed them the first night I arrived here. They run up and down the walls. They are everywhere. And where there is food, they are multiplied by ten. I currently have my swedish fish candy protected by three layers of ziploc bags. I won’t even tell you what happened to my chocolate. They nonchalantly (and rudely) crawl over my feet and up my legs. They are small red ants with black butts (or bums as I would prefer to say). They bite but it doesn’t hurt too much. It’s more like, “What is that pinching sensation? Oh, it’s an ant.”

Ok, back to my story. So, I’m shaking my computer and ants are flying everywhere and I don’t care. Once I don’t see anymore on top, I set my computer down on the bed and begin to kill some with my hands. First they came out five at a time, then eventually it was one by one. So for an hour, I killed ants one by one. I became convinced that they were hiding inside, aware that I was waiting for them. So I googled “How To Clean The Inside of Your Macbook”. I spent the next three hours unscrewing screws and pulling apart my computer. I thought I got all of the ants, but every once in a while I see one or two poke their heads out. I think they’re mocking me from inside my hard drive.