9: I have been lax in updating this for no good reason other than that I seem to always be on my way somewhere when I kill a damn spider. Therefore, my memory of these kills is somewhat less than perfect, but at least two of them were large, hideous, and speedy, and were suitably dispatched with the Sorry Stick from their spots on the walls and ( Read more... )

5: Another huge, monstrous one. It was on the venetian blinds on my bedroom window, which posed a problem. I tried drawing the blinds up rapidly, hoping to crush it, but that didn't work. The motion did force it to crawl onto the direct bottom of said blinds, which afforded me the opportunity to simply smash it with the Sorry Stick (rather than ( Read more... )

4: Enormous and terrible, splayed out to a quarter's diameter on my bedroom wall. Wasted no time with the Sorry Stick. Its mangled remains are somewhere in my garbage can. I make no apologies.

3: The wrong kind of compact and combat-ready, trying to look unobtrusive next to the sole picture frame on the east wall of my bedroom. Smashed it with the edge of the Sorry Stick and entombed its remains in tissues that went right into the conveniently-located garbage can. No mercy. There will never be mercy.

2: On the ceiling of my bedroom just now, a quarter's diameter, wicked-looking and spindly. It's past 1a, so I had to kill it quietly by sort of slide-smashing it with the end of the Sorry Stick. It did the job. Its curled-up remains now rest at the bottom of my trashcan, which has a lid on it. This is the only spider allowed for February, everyone ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about spiders and my bathroom lately. This one was on the wall behind my towel, which I of course discovered after taking the towel off the rack to dry myself after a shower. Clever move, spider. Clever move.

I countered by wadding it in some toilet paper and flushing it .7 seconds later. Check and mate.

Starting the year off ( Read more... )

 16: I saw this one on the floor of the bathroom just before offloading some liquid cargo.  This was the ideal time to spot it, because otherwise I'd've been rooted in place for I-don't-know-how-long while I finished my business, which would've been potentially disastrous.  As it was, I was able to smash it in some toilet paper and deposit it in ( Read more... )

 15: I want to make it clear right away that this was the most enormous, terrifying spider I have ever seen in all my years keeping this log and living at this house.  I walked out the door in the morning and when I went to pull the door shut behind me, it was crawling along the bottom of the door frame, as though trying to get in.  It was huge, ( Read more... )

13: In the shower a few days ago, not very large, but patient. Waiting. Washed it down the drain with the detachable shower head ( Read more... )

 12: On the wall of my bedroom just now, about a dime's diameter.  This late at night, I'm ready for bed and not in the mood to fuck around; I grabbed some tissues and made an end of it so swift that I'm not sure it even knows it's dead.  This is what it is to be me.