it's just looking for somewhere to park a corner web to catch little insects. i don't mind a spider or two. i've seen grosser bugs down here (what are those goofy ones that tumble around, over-enthusiastically, anyways? they remind me of retrievers, sort of. some kind of centipede, i think. but they're built like hyperactive, bouncing squares. i'm always suppressing a giggle, and then they get away.), and if the spiders can help with that then that's a good thing. if they get out of hand, in comes the vacuum, but one or two at a time is fine.
then, why does it seem like this web is going to be roughly five by five? feet, that is.
fortunately, the spider seems a little confused about my movement. let alone about my weight. see, it seems to think i'm likely to throw myself directly into the wall. well, i guess it throws itself directly into the wall. it's just relating it's own experiences the way that it knows how. perhaps? what else can explain a five by five web in the middle of a wall?
so, i'm debating my strategies, here. i have to admit i'm a little irked about my perceived role as a food source. fucking eight-eyes. yet, i admire the thing's sheer insolence.
mom
I don't mind a small spider or 2...But the centipedes give me the creepy crawlies!
jessica amber murray
they're too hilarious. i want to toss a frisbie at one....
mom
Well... I have had one or two crawl up my jean pant leg in the past...Yikes!
jessica amber murray
ok, do you mean the big square ones? i don't mean the long ones. i don't think they're actually centipedes, but i think they're related to centipedes.
mom
It was the long thin brownish ones covered with legs and they are fast!... Not sure what the big square ones are?
jessica amber murray
yeah, that's not what i mean. those are just yick. i mean these awkward looking things that really have four big legs. when they run, they're constantly just off balance enough to make it look like they're going to fall over.
they sort of gallop.
it's hilarious.
mom
LOL...If you say so...
jessica amber murray
i'm generally ok with bugs. the only really freaky moment i can recall is the time i got attacked by a praying mantis. and those things are actually huge. i don't know if you've ever seen one - first and last time i have.
mom
No...But one time a walking stick was on my arm and kinda freaked me out....
jessica amber murray
i was coming home very early in the morning from a party, and it flew in the door when i opened up, sat on the ground for a second, and then lunged itself at me. i got my arm up in time to knock it down, which also smashed it into the wall. i panicked and went after it with a frying pan...
it was at least a foot long. i thought it was a bird at first...
mom
OMG! Yikes!
jessica amber murray
worse, was nobody believed me. dad just laughed at me and told me to stop doing so many drugs. then, a few years later when i saw a shrew in the basement (and i know the difference between a shrew and a mouse, thank you), it was just like i got attacked by the praying mantis and i should stop doing psychedelics...
(it's important because most shrews are poisonous, so you don't want to treat them like mice!)
the one that went after me was bright, lime, glowing green.
i don't know if this guy realizes that thing is poisonous. i find most people don't know this. i spent too many hours reading biology books as a kid, i guess.
