cicadas

Came home from the mini-vacation and every now and then there would be this ungodly racket coming from my study. I thought maybe something was wrong with one of my outlets and it was vibrating with 1000 watts of electricity or something. It died down and I went into investigate and there was the biggest, fattest, weirdest-looking cockroach I'd ever seen.

After a few minutes of reflection, I realized it was a cicada. I was still scared of it, I guess because of associating it with cockroaches. Plus, it's a pretty big bug. Eventually I pulled the ole newspaper-and-bucket trick and sent it out the window.