I'm sure you are curious about that title, but first an update on the food. Supper last night was fine, nothing I loved, but definitely stuff I could eat. And then today at lunch, spectacular! Focaccia bread with olive oil and balsamic, caesar salad and soup. There was minestrone, but I had leftover french onion from yesterday. Yum! Sort of made up for the morning.
I was paired up with "B" for morning Karma Yoga. We cleaned floors, made beds, cleaned the rooms of people who'd left. And then there was still 2 hrs left. And that's when we were assigned as Angels of Death (my title, not the Ashram's).
You probably think I'm using a metaphor; but no, we were tasked to kill. The main building at the Ashram (Mandala House) has an ant problem. Our job was to go down to the basement and vacuum up the ants alive. This included vacuuming of the ceiling (where many of them were). And then we were to set out ant poison. Wow! Really doesn't seem very good for my karma. But, we were assigned this task so we did it.
It was like something out of a bad horror movie. Going to change the vacuum cleaner bag and realizing that there was no bag and the inside of the vacuum was filled with live ants. Having ants drop down from the ceiling on us. Suddenly finding myself alone, realizing that B must have gone to get cleaning supplies and continuing to work; and then looking over at the door and finding it open (but B wasn't back yet). I'm not going to jinx myself by saying it was the creepiest job here, but I'd be super happy if I managed to avoid getting it again.
I'm glad this afternoon will be a computer afternoon. And then I'm on both dinner serving and dinner dishes tonight, so I'll see how much time that takes and whether I still have time for my personal Asana (Yoga pose) practice. We do one in the morning as a group, but I like to get my personal one in too if I have time.
Also - no one seems to have taken my rather large hint on Day 1 that I love comments. I have reset the comment settings on my blog. You shouldn't need to log in to anything to comment, just feel free to leave me a note.
YAY to changing the comment settings!
ReplyDeleteThe ant situation is so creepy. There better be some good karma coming your way for doing as you're told!
Leanne L
oh my god, the ant thing is sooo creepy. My skin crawls just reading it. so so so sorry. but although killing not so good, somehow getting through this is proabably good for building resolve...or something.
ReplyDeletemy pest story - the other day Calvin came in from the yard with something in his mouth which I assumed to be a small twig, he came to me resistantly, and I pulled the item out of his mouth. Only to find a dead bird in my hand! I screamed the classic high pitched girly scream, ran to the back door and tossed. It might be important to note that I was taught, emphatically, that birds are dirty and I should NEVER touch feathers. I kept shaking myself out of grossness for an hour. urgh...I'm thinking your ant story is pretty equal in grossness..
Korene