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February 26, 2005
Lost and found
Not much to report today... spent hours with Jana and Silas working on our Business Class project (business cards) and hanging out.
There's a huge black widow hanging out in one corner of my room. I asked Shannon to take care of it, who was planning to somehow coax it onto a stick and then take it outside. However, when he tried this the spider attacked the stick, then ran and hid inside my wall heater.
Next stop: death. Tonight I had a talk with it and explained that it was welcome to live somewhere other than my room, and that I appreciated its services, again in locations other than my room. I then made it plain that if it's not gone tomorrow, Shannon's coming back to kill it.
And THEN some crazy black-brown spider came into my room, running across the floor, and I trapped it under a cup. Sliding a postcard under it, I lifted it to eye level and told THAT one, "I'm letting you go, so you can tell all your spider kind to stay out of my room. The next spider I see in here DIES."
I appreciate that spiders kill and eat bugs that I desire even less (if possible) to be in my room. So I like spiders... I don't want to kill them. But more than that, I don't want them living with me.
After dinner, Sarah showed us her copies of this magazine called Found... basically, people find stuff (love notes, homework, email print outs) and mail it to Found, who compiles it and publishes it.
Really insane stuff, like "Happy fathers day to you, even though you said I can't cook and the pie I made was awful." and long scrawling journal entries by 14 year old boys about the girls who wouldn't make out with them. A hilarious "Lost Cat" poster which said "I don't have a photo of her, so I drew her" and the drawing is like this psychotic anorexic feline with 3 inch fangs.
I'm actually really jealous that I didn't think of this idea first. I want to publish found things.
Posted by Josh A. at February 26, 2005 10:08 PM
Comments
If only I were there, I'd come save that spider from you, and save you from the spider! The one in the corner: try putting a container next to him, and see if he'll climb in. The best "container" is a mailing tube or paper towel tube, because it's dark inside. Then you can throw the container or tube out the window. Eh? Eh?
Posted by: Ari Moore at February 28, 2005 06:52 AM