A Chapter in South Africa: I DisLike a Moth to a Flame

next time one of you is thinking about chaos theory (justin), think of me. you know that line (i think goldblum says it in jurassic park) "a butterfly flaps its wings in africa and it causes a hurricane in florida"... whoever came up with that description of chaos theory has been to africa. if a butterfly flaps its wings in africa, it causes a small cyclone in africa.

here's the story:

i was watching the english news and they had a stat of how many people thought the south african soccer team is good enough to make it into the world cup... and they broke it down into race: 46% of blacks, 23% of indians... naturally i wanted to take a picture of it. by the time i got my camera on, i had missed it so i switched to a zulu language news which was about 10 minutes behind... and waited... and then THIS HUGE FUCKING MOTH FLIES IN AND I GO SCREAMING AND FLAILING ALL OVER MY HOUSE. i then dove into my bathroom and slammed the door behind me... i look around for a towel to throw over the moth (it's the size of a small bird) but all the towels are outside in the bedroom... then i realize THE MOTH IS IN THE BATHROOM UNDER THE HEADER BEAM RIGHT AT MY HEAD LEVEL!!! i dove out of the bathroom faster than i dove in. and when i got back to my senses i realized i'd missed the "iindaba" version of the story with the stats i wanted to photograph.

i'm now sitting on the bed with the bathroom door closed. there's a window so maybe it'll leave. hopefully it won't be there in the morning. i've shot video and maybe i'll shoot a picture of this thing (with a dime for scale) when i get the biscuits up to chase it out of the bathroom.

look for the video in my picasaweb album.