attack of the dust bunnies

you never realize how much refraining from vacuuming can do to the floor of a dorm room until you live there and its your responsibility to clean. especially a girl's room. cold tile floors, rather than carpet, prevent hair from embedding itself and being discrete. luckily, megan and i both have blonde hair...so our uncleanliness and the whole hair falling out phenomenon isn't really evident at a quick glance. even so, everyone knows a camouflaged enemy can hardly be avoided. once you come in contact with it, theres no mistaking that you've been attacked by a hairy dust bunny. i'm not talking about the cute cadbury easter bunny kind of dust bunny...more like the donnie darko version (though i've never seen the movie, the poster is enough to freak me out).

its a mystery, really, how those strands of hair manage to intertwine to create dorm-room tumbleweeds. when no ones looking, i suspect the strands play together. they run around playing tag and someone accidentally trips over a piece of grass that was brought in from the quad, bumps into another hair, and next thing you know it, the whole mess of hairs are all in a brawl. (no wonder its a rule in every household not to run in the house...just look what happens) you can tell because theres always that one piece of dirt...whether a wrapper, leaf fragment, lint, or cracker crumb...thats in the center uniting them all together. then, when an unsuspecting victim sits on the floor, the dust bunny brawl jumps on the innocent and clings to whatever it can. while one dust bunny serves as a distraction, the others tumble their way over for a full on assault. the victim then jumps up off the floor and pulls the strands off, throwing them naively back onto the floor, where they'll start their game of tag all over again, leading to the same inevitable fate.

there is only one way to get rid of those hairy dust bunnies. they'll shiver at the sight of a vacuum. yes, there is no way to escape the suction of the vacuum. megan and i have been battling the dust bunnies all semester...since i don't think we've actually done a hardcore clean since last semester. but thankfully, megan decided to take control of the situation and wipe out the entire dust bunny population of room 221 this past weekend. this bliss won't last for long, though. you know how fast bunnies can breed.