November 8, 2002

the fake death of a spider. Freaked me out... I think my shower freaked it out as well. To me it's a small tiny creature with eight legs and these little tiny feet behind its "behind"... I don't know and don't want to know what exactly those little things are but they sure helped it keep its balance. That little thing = huge terror for me, naked with soap in the shower locked up in this suddenly "too small" rectangle, tried really hard to focus on showering yet all I can do was to stare at the spider, making sure it is going up, AWAY from where I was standing... and making sure it doesn't "slip" and fall. Luckly the spider didn't just fall off the wall and onto my feet or something, but it managed to scare me many times since it kept slipping, and each time it slips I move backward, into the corner AWAY from the wall. I managed to shower, and wash the soap off but I think my showering created worse circumstance for the spider... it kept droping, falling, sometimes roll up into a ball because the water droplets just falls right on top of it... poor thing. So I tried to stay far away from the spider and wash off my soap at the same time, meanwhile the spider kept going south out of no choice so I had to wrap up the showering session soon before it drowns. It was such a painful shower for the both of us... at the end, it rolled up into a ball completely. for almost a minute.... I thought I killed it! I thought "man! I took too long, it died of lack of oxygen and too much hydrogen!" So I tried blowing some "fresh" air on it and finally it moved.... it turned out that sneaky little thing "faked its death".... should have just wash it off the wall if he wanted to die...

The most painful shower I must say, I hope that spider find its way out... SOON.