COCKROACH!!!

I had never seen a cockroach out in the wild or in a house until I moved to S. Carolina last year. I had encountered a few of them, but always forced my roommates to chase them around and catch them. Last night, I had to take matters into my own hands. It's been nearly a month since I moved into my new place and hadn't seen any sort of bugs...minus a few fruit flies. Last week Friday my roommate had said she saw 2 cockroaches in the past week, so I knew that I was bound to find one. Well sure enough it happened. I saw it crawling up the wall towards the ceiling and I can't reach that high, even standing on a chair! I had to wait for it come closer to my level, but as it got closer it got bigger and grosser! It got closer to my level and I had a cup and piece of paper ready, however it fell off the wall and I lost it. Now I knew that I wouldn't be able to sleep unless I caught the darn thing so I looked under, behind and basically tore apart my room and didn't find it. I decided to take a break and just sit and wait for my enemy to come out on its own. I saw it start crawling towards my closet door and it went under. Then it came back out and went into the living room. That little bugger was fast! I had to basically pounce on it with the cup. I slid the piece of paper underneath and ran outside so fast and made sure it was out! I hate cockroaches probably more than I hate spiders. At least with spiders...many of them are very small and you can smack them on the wall and clean it up no problem. With cockroaches...they are never small and they are probably really gross if you smack them. I don't need cockroach inside on my wall. Cockroaches make me think of gross and dirty places and in my places that never get clean. I hate to think that there are more just hiding around but i know they are. Our place is far from dirty...it's probably the cleanest place in the whole complex. My duty for the day is to tidy up a little more and make sure there aren't as many places for the roaches to hide under just in case I encounter another one!