Thursday, September 4th 2008

Double trouble.

I walked into my bathroom this morning to take a shower. Whenever I enter our bathroom now, I always check the four corners of the ceiling to make sure no spiders are hanging out there. That's where they tend to go, is the corners. Looked clear to me, so I had a nice hot shower. As soon as I got out I checked the corners again for safe measure, and then looked right above me in the MIDDLE of the ceiling and saw a spider crawling right above my head. My camera was right outside the bathroom so I snapped a quick picture and then killed it with a box of candy I was eating. It really sucks that I didn't get to finish that candy, but the spider was heading for the door and who knows what kind of shenanigans would've happened if he would've gotten into our living room.

The rest of the day was awesome! I rode my bike a bit, signed up for the new YMCA in Marion, and watched the Giants/Redskins game with Zachary and Dan. Being spider free is so much fun! That was all great until later tonight, I heard Zach yell from downstairs. He then ran up to my room and informed me that the "biggest fucking spider ever" was in his bedroom. I grabbed my camera and all three roommates gathered to witness this. I made Zach move the bookcase the spider was hiding behind, and as soon as he did I saw the most revolting creature with 8-legs that has ever been inside of Harmon St. I grabbed a hardcover book and I felt like I could gather the courage to kill this one, but as soon as I stepped forward I knew I couldn't. Austin took over and approached it. This is what we were dealing with.

Austin inched closer and closer, and finally had the book about 6 inches away from the monster. He slammed the book towards it and the spider seriously almost got away. THAT'S HOW FAST THIS SPIDER WAS. You can tell by looking at it in that picture that this thing could haul ass. It's legs were sticking out from the top of the book and squirming around. They finally stopped. Goliath was dead.

Good luck sleeping tonight, Zach.

Daily Spider Count: 2
Weekly Spider Count: 4
Overall Feeling: THAT WAS JUST IN OUR HOUSE