I FINALLY GOT RID OF THE MOUSE.

Okay so here's the short version of the whole story.

About two and a half weeks ago, I heard an animal running around in my ceiling at like five in the morning. It freaked me out and I was pretty sure it was a acid spitting monster. Luckily I was wrong. So after a few nights of this, I called my landlord and he set up some mouse traps in my ceiling.

But then I felt really guilty about killing the mouse. I mean, it was just chilling in my ceiling and not doing anything really wrong, so why should I kill it? So I'm a big pussy and I took the traps down. I go to Home Depot and after the lady there finished making fun of me for not killing the mouse, I bought some non-lethal traps and set them up in the ceiling.

Then on I think wednesday, a plumber was here doing some work in my ceiling. He left some tiles off, and then I was at my desk writing a paper at night, and all of the sudden, the mouse just falls out of the ceiling and onto my floor! So I go to open the back door but the plumber piled all this wood and shit in front of it, so I grabbed a bucket and started chasing the mouse around the room. He was really tiny and cute. If I had killed him I would have felt like shit when I saw it. Anyway, it runs into my closet and then it dissapears into some hole I never noticed before and goes behind my wall. So I'm like, great, now I have no idea how to get it. I don't hear it for a few days.

Then friday I hear it in my ceiling again! And it figured out how to get food from the non-lethal traps without getting caught. In fact, he even moves the traps around the room, probably just to taunt me. So now I have no idea how to catch it.

So today i decided as a last ditch effort to take out a ceiling tile and hope he just falls out of the ceiling again. I go upstairs real quick and when I come back, he's sitting on my desk! He fell again! So for the next ten minutes, he and I have a chase of epic proportians. I'm running around with a flashlight and bucket screaming about how I'm trying to keep from killing it, and he keeps going under stuff. I closed my closet so he couldn't get away again and opened up the back door. After ten minutes of chasing it and me destroying my room, he finally runs outside. I'm in hot pursuit behind him, but he dissapeared into the bushes.

It's finally over. I'm going to kind of miss my mouse though.