Eee.

[owlmoose]

There is a big giant spider on the wall right next to my desk.

I can't stop looking at it. It's very distracting. (At least I haven't run out of the room shrieking.) I kind of want it gone, but I can't bring myself to kill it and would feel like a true idiot asking the student to do it. We can't really liberate it either -- I'm on the second floor and the windows don't open.

*shiver*

Comments

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Would it be at all possible to trap it in a jar or box using a piece of paper and take ot downstairs and release it outside?

Re: I

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It could probably be done. Now it's disappeared, though, which is much worse; I keep imaging that it's walking over my toes. :-/

Maybe I can make the assistant deal with it, if it comes back.

[lucil-luzzu.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I hate spiders. I don't care if I'd look stupid, I'd make somebody else deal with it before I'd go anywhere near it...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I feel sort of silly, fearing spiders so much, but oh well. ;) Everyone's gotta have a quirk, right?

[oswulf.livejournal.com]

I cannot deal with bugs. Cockroaches, ants, just--bugs. Spiders are not bugs. Spiders kill bugs. So I like spiders.

I understand how that would work as an intellectual excuse. What I don't understand is how that can feel right to me on a gut-level. But it does.

Dunno. Maybe Peter Parker humanized them for me or something.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can get that on an intellectual level -- bugs are bad, spiders eat bugs, therefore spiders are good. But I still have the gut reaction of the squirms to anything creepy-crawly, even if they eat other creepy-crawlies.

It never did come back. I kinda wonder what happened to it, but mostly I don't want to think about it. :)

[furitaurus.livejournal.com]

Spiders, big ones at least, are not one of my favourite things either.