FAIL of the week: SCREENS.

Ok so, my dorm room is completely awesome. It's awesome. It even, I realized with delight, has a screen on the window.

Ha ha ha.

People who know me well know that I have an almost irrational loathing of stinging insects. This strikes many people as odd considering that I usually like nature, have a lot of outdoor experience, and have, uh, developed a rather high pain tolerance. The prospect of being stung by a bee should not, logically, be a big deal in the scheme of things. But they scare the shit out of me. So it kind of creeped me out last night to notice several hollow yellowjacket corpses festooning my windowsill. Then this morning, just as I was letting my newly polished nails dry, I realized that there were two live ones buzzing around the inside of my open window. WTF. There is a screen on the fricking window. A screen which apparently has a big-ass HOLE in it somewhere, because these are BIG fricking wasps.

What to do. First, I closed the window so that the hundreds more that were buzzing about outside couldn't get in. Then I mustered my courage to trap the intruders under my new shiny clean water glass. I accidentally decapitated the first one, with a pang of remorse. The second one is currently flitting about wildly under the glass on my desk. I don't want to try to put it outside for fear that more will fly in. It's going to suffocate and that makes me sad. But it's me versus him.

It really is bothering me that I can't figure out how they're getting through the screen. I can't see any opening. I really want to keep the window open because it is HOT in here and it's going to be even hotter this weekend, but there is no way I'm letting more of these nasty bitches into my room. They are obviously all living in the huge tree outside. I think at night when they are sleeping I will try to repair the hole somehow.

WHY.