Now Playing -
"Beautful Racket" - Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Now Eating -
nothing.
Now Feeling -
achy.
Now Tweeting
- Melanie
I was closing the windows last night before bed, when I noticed a delicate web spun across the length and breadth of one window. At the center of the web was a spider, natch. One about the size of my thumb. Huz tried to allay my apprehension by explaining that he sees this frequently � a spider will �camp out� in a window overnight, and be gone by morning. One spider, okay.
But two??
Because that�s what I saw when I went to close the other window. Thumb-sized Spider, Redux. That�s not �camping out for the night,� people. That�s a Giant Spider Invasion! That�s creeping-in-through-the-uncaulked-window-frames-to-eat-or-be-eaten-in-my-sleep!
Believe it or not, I�m really not all that frightened by the little eight-legged freaks. For years, I was the de facto bug killer in my family, as my brother was absolutely terrified of �em. I saw (the best minds of my generation�no wait) a centipede the length of my hand make its way around � of my college apartment�s kitchen ceiling during a phone call to my dad, only to be thwarted by me, a colander, a paper plate, and, eventually, a toilet bowl. My attitude toward arachnids and other leggy creatures (you can throw supermodels in there, too) is this: I spend as little time as necessary in your environment, stay the hell out of mine. Or I reserve the right to personally remove you. Make of that what you will.
(Okay, so maybe they weren�t as big as her spider, but still�.)
That said, where will I be spending next Thursday through Sunday? Sitting in a field here. Fauna bedamned. Pass the Skin-So-Soft. With a side of Raid.
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