decompose

One of our vocabulary words this week is decompose, and today students had to write sentences with the words. When someone asked what sentence he could make with this word, I was going to suggest something about a tree when another student blurted out, "The rabbit is decomposing in my front yard." Maybe they're still stuck on the bunny story of TJ McCloud's I read them. Regardless, it made me think of the jackrabbits that were killed during the night and left on our balcony (as well as several others) in Sikes. Jenna and I didn't want to touch it, so we closed our blinds and ignored it a couple days until the smell made that impossible. Then Jennifer Cooke and I decided to dispose of it. We didn't have rubber gloves, so we put trash bags on our arms held on with rubber bands. She help open a big trash bag against the bloody body and I got a hanger to try to lift it into the bag. Unfortunately, it had been a hot two days, and the rabbit seemed to be stuck to the concrete. As Jennifer and I are making disgusting noises and trying to tell ourselves we can do this, my RA walks in the room wondering what is going on. She called maintenance to come remove it for us thankfully! And we told her of the 4 other rooms around ours that had the same problem. I think Andrew Andress and Josh Stites had something to do with it, but what other guys were in on it? Wasn't Christine with them on that hunting trip? Funny how the word decompose can bring back such vivid memories of my sophomore year.