Tuesday, September 2nd 2008

Goodbye August, hello September!

Before I jump into the spiders that have found me recently, I would like to explain something. Lately, I've received a few emails saying that I am faking this, or going out of my way to find spiders. What you all don't understand is that I have ALWAYS gone out of my way to find spiders. I HAVE to be assertive in finding and killing spiders, because when I'm not, they will find me first! Do you know what happens when they find me first? Spiders in my clothes, in my hair, on my body somewhere, and a thoroughly freaked out Stephen for the next few minutes. Or hours, depending on the hair/size/amount-of-see-through ratio. So anyways, I live in a spider-infested house, and this is just my medium for coping with it, and somehow making it more livable. Moving on.

I decided to start storing my bike inside the house rather than outside in the garage because my roommates bike was stolen last week, and I'm trying to take every precaution so that it doesn't happen to mine. Upon bringing it in, I started to fix some things that were a little shaky. As soon as I reached down to adjust my handle-bag clip, I knew it was a mistake. A spider got totally weirded out and raced down towards the bottom of the bike. Luckily I had been doing ExpoTV reviews on my bike gear and had my digital camera on hand. Here's the little booger:

It's a really tricky situation when you get a spider on a thin object like a pole or on the corner of a wall, or in this case, the tubing of my bike. My best bet was to grab a towel and smother the entire area that he was on. I did it, and he was soon dead. I'm a little weary about my bike now though...

So I thought that was it for the day. I had stopped thinking about it long enough to forget that it happened. A few hours later, though, I wanted to go down to the diner and get some work done (our internet has been shaky at the house lately). I went to put on my shoes and HOLY SHIT IT'S A SPIDER. My shoes were white, the spider was black, and it ran out from underneath the tongue of my shoe. It started to move across the floor and you'd better believe I was up on my bed. I reached over and grabbed my camera from my desk and took this picture really quickly, and then seconds later dropped my shoe on the spider. LOOK AT THIS THING. Seriously, click on this picture to make it bigger and really inspect the amount of creepy that is going on. I would sleep downstairs but I feel like there's an even greater chance of seeing one on a couch. I'm helpless. I need to get out of this house.

Daily Spider Count: 2

Weekly Spider Count: 2

Overall Feeling: Distraught and exhausted