mouse hunt

midnight on monday, the hall was silent, barren, and still. i stood in the doorway of katie mclain's room discussing highly important topics such as fasting from instant messenger and the latest greatest interaction with her (widely announced) pbf--potential boyfriend, danblair. i had a sudden impulse to look down the hall and as i did, a dark brown rodent that looked too big to be a mouse darted out from under a door, busted a "U"ie and scrambled back under another door, all within a matter of seconds. the news of this spread fast and the girls were rather frightened at the thought of such an uninvited guest. this began a hunting escapade that lasted an hour. rachael and i ran into her room and put towels down to block the crevice of the doors (she has 2). she saw it jumping under her bunk while we tried to trap it with a jumbo sized fruit loops box and a baton, houdini somehow escaped passed the blockade and out the door. with the RA down the hall (whom i refer to as tomlin), we grabbed flashlights, the baton, popcorn, and began searching all the rooms for the little scab. on our second time through, i was ready to scream if it popped out while i searched under my next door neighbor's cluttered bed...being the geek that i am, i noticed a bunch of shredded material and paper in the back corner and looked right over it as though it was placed there by sara. as i continued this hunt...lo and behold, there was a hole in the wall behind one of the bed boards. in spite of this, it still wasnt until tomlin and i were both under the bed weighing the discoveries, when i put two and two together...haha. there is now a large trap with tasty peanut butter in hopes to lure the mongrel to its fateful destiny. the latest sighting of the survivor was this morning in jenna salsa rebik's room. hopefully hopping houdini will stay in his home in the wall while the prospective students are here for the weekend sleeping on the floor.