I have been assaulted in my own home. I was minding my own business, making a couple vats of pasta salad for the big family wingding tomorrow, when my ankle was bitten not once, not twice, but three times!!!! Who's the perp, the scum, the scurvy knave who would do such a thing? None other than Minnesota's state bird... a giant whopping mosquito. His twinbrother haunts the guestroom (read: where I sleep) and nips off my neck every night. I have welts. That's right, the only action I'm seeing comes from bugs. Grrr.