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( Cut for images, because I'm nice. Sometimes. )
Also, new Yoshi icon! Wheee!
lesslikeyou.( Cut for images, because I'm nice. Sometimes. )
Also, new Yoshi icon! Wheee!
Jan. 3rd, 2006
Let me restate this: I don't like spiders.
Some, I can ignore, trusting that they're harmless. Others, I coexist with since they're too big for me to want to be near them.
One of the latter kind was standing on the wall above the shower this morning.
Let's just run through a quick list of things spiders can do:
So, I'm there in the shower. I'm warm, somewhat content, rapidly becoming cleaner and ever so slightly terrified by the creepy eight-legged thing standing above me and staring. Honestly, I should've gotten the hint when it was fighting to keep its footing as steam condensed on its patch of wall.
And then, it fell.
I don't remember opening my shower door. I don't remember closing my shower door. I do remember finding myself standing on the opposite side of it, then timidly opening it again to turn the water off. It didn't seem terribly impressed, either; the big, grumpy and slightly damp spider clambered back up the wall to make a little home between my shampoo and conditioner, and that's ok, I can always buy more if it really wants them.
It's moved to a different corner, now. It's by the towel rail.
Waiting.
And so, a bit later, I did the only thing that makes sense in such a situation.
I went out and bought myself a copy of Super Mario64 DS. I'm especially interested in the way they write it, because Mario64 expands as:
Mario1 × Mario2 × Mario3 × Mario4 × … × Mario62 × Mario63 × Mario64
It sounds like particularly scary fanfic.
Still, it's Fun thus far. Yay Yoshi! Yay minigames!
...
Yay getting used to moving with the touch screen!
Some, I can ignore, trusting that they're harmless. Others, I coexist with since they're too big for me to want to be near them.
One of the latter kind was standing on the wall above the shower this morning.
Let's just run through a quick list of things spiders can do:
- Stand on walls
- Stand on ceilings
- Some can jump
- Most can bite
- They're fast
- They have exceptional reflexes
- They're incredibly strong, for their size
- They can spin webs
- Any size!
- They can catch thieves just like flies
So, I'm there in the shower. I'm warm, somewhat content, rapidly becoming cleaner and ever so slightly terrified by the creepy eight-legged thing standing above me and staring. Honestly, I should've gotten the hint when it was fighting to keep its footing as steam condensed on its patch of wall.
And then, it fell.
I don't remember opening my shower door. I don't remember closing my shower door. I do remember finding myself standing on the opposite side of it, then timidly opening it again to turn the water off. It didn't seem terribly impressed, either; the big, grumpy and slightly damp spider clambered back up the wall to make a little home between my shampoo and conditioner, and that's ok, I can always buy more if it really wants them.
It's moved to a different corner, now. It's by the towel rail.
Waiting.
And so, a bit later, I did the only thing that makes sense in such a situation.
I went out and bought myself a copy of Super Mario64 DS. I'm especially interested in the way they write it, because Mario64 expands as:
Mario1 × Mario2 × Mario3 × Mario4 × … × Mario62 × Mario63 × Mario64
It sounds like particularly scary fanfic.
Still, it's Fun thus far. Yay Yoshi! Yay minigames!
...
Yay getting used to moving with the touch screen!