Last night I got a scary surprise. It was about 12:30 and I was just about to drift off to sleep. I heard a scratching kind of noise near my head, and thought perhaps a spider was crawling onto the futon or something, so I got up and turned on a light. To my shock and horror, there was no friendly palm-sized spider creeping around on the floor, or a geji-geji, which I had seen before... there was a mukade, a giant centipede, on my pillow, crawling around just where my head had been only a moment before!
Unfortunately I didn't quite have the presence of mind to take a photo, so the one you see here is from the web. This morning I learned that those things BITE, so I'm glad I ran away to sleep somewhere else instead of sticking around to observe the beast.
And now, heading back to my regularly scheduled giant insect safari...
