lenka and the bug

sounds like the name of a bad opera doesn't it?

so last week lenka found a single solitary bug.
she saved it in a ziploc and found me on campus to show me.
she had been getting little bumps for some time and thinks she found the culprit (though i think they might be from her detergent... since she won't shut up about how allergic she is to everything.. and the bug just came in on someone's clothing or the like)
she decided it was a bedbug... it looked kinda like one but i'm hardly and expert on the topic of small crawly critters.
so she started looking up bedbugs online, reading about them, backing myself and both other girls into corners to tell us all about them.
about how you couldn't see them during the daytime.
about how they could fly through vents.
about how there was never just one but always a colony.
we humored her, helped her search her room with a fine toothed comb for more and promised to look out.
none of us found any more.
none of us have been bitten.
(though she says we have and just can't tell because our skin isn't as senitive as hers)
but lenka insists there are more. we just can't see them. like wmds or the democratic/republican party's sense of self.

so she called housing, and got in a fight with them. she called the internaitonal office and got them involved.
since then she's been sleeping in the kitchen or in temporary housing, coming by daily to ask if the maintence men have come to inspect and going on and on about how this would never happen in the czech republic and finns just don't know how to live. i dont know if they have come or not.
still none of us has been bitten.

last night at about 2200, she came to everyone's room, knocking on everyone's door telling us we had to be out by 0900 the next day and couldnt return till 1600.
why?
because they are coming to fumigate the place.
yes... fumigate.
and we have to have all of our clothing and belongings out.
where? not her problem... put them on the balcony.
so i did... and sealed all my foodstuffs in the fridge.
didn't matter that i was busy sorting out some bank stuff (U.S. account got hacked, had to get new card lines up) nope, had to drop my life for her delusions of bugs.

what really gets me more than anything else, she put her mattress out there.
kinda defeats the point even if she had bedbugs....

all.over.one. little. bug.
nice as she seems to be, she is (pardon my french) batshit insane.

i have the overwhelming urge to get some very potent south lousiana mosquitos shipped in and seal them in her room.


on a much lighter note, i met my "friendship family" last night (awesome program the uni puts on for exchange kids... help them meet finns and experiance the true culture more) but i will detail that more when there aren't bugs afoot.