The strip mall where the studio is located just received a new roof. For some reason, the new roof is leaking like a sieve, and the Chinese buffet down the way has suffered a lot of water damage, due to the recent rains. We've had to replace just a few ceiling tiles, but other neighbors are finding their ceilings coming down on them.

Yesterday, I was standing outside the back door smoking a cigar, when I became aware of a number of itches on my bare forearms and neck. Then, on my scalp. On closer inspection, I found that I was covered in some sort of larvae that were stinging me with their little tails. Hundreds of them! I think that I managed to brush them off and wash them out of my hair, but it's one of the oddest things to happen to me in a while.