Maggot Brain

Our first day of medical school began two days ago and Michael and I are already drowning. In the past two days, I've slept a total of 9 hours and have had 3 meals. Today, we finished our studying early (at 11:oo pm) and we thought "lucky us! we'll actually get some sleep tonight." But if you've read Michael's blog about Murphy's Law, then you'd know that nothing EVER goes the way we plan. I'll explain...

I was getting ready to go to sleep when Michael suddenly bursts through my door in the floor. (For those who don't know, I basically live in an attic - albeit a nice one.)

Michael: "Meli, come here. I'm going to throw up."
Me: "why?"
Michael: "Just come here"

(I walk down my stairs to the kitchen where Michael is standing, pointing at our garbage can.)

Located inside the garbage can were about two dozen, 1/2 inch long maggots. And what's worse, when he took out the bag, about 10 of them fell to the floor. As I stood in shock, Michael kept pacing around saying "who told me to start cleaning at 12 o'clock at night? I just came to get a pudding. I'm going to throw up." The sight of him taking a napkin and picking each crawling maggot up one by one was priceless. I helped him pick up the rest and we threw about 1/2 a gallon of dish washing detergent and bleach into the bucket. Maybe that will kill them?

I came back upstairs so I could go to bed. I really need to sleep!! Michael follows me up and the following conversation takes place:

Michael: "Where do I clean the maggot bucket?" (He points at my bathroom.)
Me: "No Way"
Michael: "I would have cleaned it in mine but I can't get in." (yes, he is bathroom is still locked!)
Me: "No Way"
Michael: "There's no hose"
Me: "Just put it on the balcony"

So, it's 12:06 AM, I am exhausted, and there is a garbage bin with maggots on my balcony.

I took 5 minutes to write this because I hope you can learn from our mistakes. Even though you are never home because you're studying in the Annex/library, please take a moment to take out the trash before you find it infested with maggots a week later.