"Chuck."

I was on West Green today visiting a friend when we decided to take a walk around campus. We left the dorm at 4:00, and not ten seconds later we saw a girl walking down the long road toward Stocker Center talking on the phone and looking at the ground. We were very interested in what she was looking at, because she seemed to be really interested, too. So we stopped to look.

AND IT WAS A HUGE PRAYING MANTIS. We named it Chuck.


We spent an hour looking at this thing. We attracted some people, actually. There were five of us in all just staring at it. The first half hour we were mainly poking it with a stick and seeing if it would attack a squirrel. Then we decided to get a bit braver and pick it up.

Liz took it a step further and decided to put Chuck on her head. Chuck didn't really like the texture of hair, but it was so cute to see her hop off when she was over it.
Unfortunately for Liz, just having a praying mantis on her head wasn't enough. Oh no. She had to take it another step further and put it on her face.

On another note, my room smells like pumpkin. Mmmmmm.