My Dental Floss Diaries

Who could have known that my last minute purchase of dental floss would be so useful during my year away. Looking around my room I kind of like the additions it has created. First and most importantly, is the bug net hanging from my ceiling. The night I arrived, we were exhausted and it was late. However, after seeing the large spider we were anxious to hang my bed net. We were content to simply rotate the bed under the window and string the net up to an old, bent curtain rod. It only took seven times of this rod falling onto our heads with a smothering bed net before we decided we needed a change. We felt like we were on a survivor show as we searched our room for a better option. Of course we tried the obvious option of nailing it to the ceiling like suggested on the bag, however a solid concrete surface is pretty hard to work with. This being the only suggestion on the bag, we were left to figure it out on our own. We made a list of anything that could possibly be of use to us. Our options really were limited and the dental floss won. We excitedly drew a design plan on our little white board and set to work. We knew that we wanted to hang it from some combination of triangles. Luckily, there were three objects already in the room that we could attach the floss to: a rusty, old nail, a fuse box that has caught on fire at least once, and our ceiling light not completely secured to the ceiling. With these three points, three hours, and tripled up lines of dental floss, we now sleep without wondering when the net will next suffocate us. I can’t explain the 33 bug bites on my legs, but we sure are proud of our success. :)