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GIANT F-ING SPIDER IN THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!!!!!
okay, so you know me, i can deal with bugs. usually i’m the girl that saves the other girls from creepy crawlies. i was raised to pick up tarantulas, and even fast moving wolf spiders I will rescue and put outside. but there is one spider i cannot handle and that sends survival electric shock to my nervous system. that spider, my friends, is the orb weaver. this spider, maybe, with legs is only a couple inches in diameter. but it makes these huge webs that spanned between the trees and the house i grew up in and you could walk into them and not know where the spider was on you, and it could curl into a hard protective shell thing and then pop out and run all over you. they are the only spiders that can make me yelp or jump up and down. nevertheless, as a dutiful big sister, i often led the way down our driveway with a stick over my head and my little siblings following me, so that I would get spidered and not them.
so you should all be very proud of me that i did not scream at the top of my soprano lungs and break down the walls try to get away from this:
It’s still in there! it’s 130am right now and I made a note to others because I don’t know if it’s poisonous or not and no way am I self-sacrificial enough to try and put that thing outside! So no going to the bathroom for me. and I have to shower in the morning! When I went to put the “danger, giant spider” sign on the door… I couldn’t find it! I didn’t look very long, but it wasn’t where it had been!!!!! eeeeeeeeee! i slid the bathroom door closed, scanned the hallway, closed my door (of course, directly across hall from bathroom) and then put one of my sarongs to cover the crack at the bottom of the door… but that thing is huge! if it really wanted to get me, it could lift the sarong!!! *whimper*
And I did a web search for “big japanese spider” to see if I could find out if it was potentially deadly and thus should wake up the owner, and what do I discover? The thing is a type of orb weaver! Of course, the spider that haunts me would be kin to my original spider trauma! AAAAH! So I am so pumped full of adrenaline right now that I am actually shaking, and I am SURE I am not going to be able to go to bed anytime soon! I am sitting without my feet on the floor, barricaded in my room! So I guess I will have to watch more anime in an attempt to distract myself, though I know as soon as I decide to get in bed that I will be reminded…. uuhhhh…
It has rained every day and is raining now, and I am living in a forest in Nikko so this shouldn’t be surprising, but… GIANT F-ING SPIDER IN THE BATHROOM!
*prays* please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…please don’t build a orb-weaver web in the bathroom…
I love the upswings the best…
So a WWOOF host got back to me! On July 8th I will be helping out at a lodge in Nikko, one of the most famous places for temples, waterfalls and onsen! Not much to complain about, especially as the physical labor potential is much lower that some of the other ones that I applied to (one was with a lumberjack, even)! They need help with hotel-like tasks, and their website, and landscaping tasks. So I get paid in 2 days, and then it only costs $30 to get there, and I will be able to save most of the rest because the work is in exchange for room and board. So they have net access so I can do interviews and apply for jobs while I’m there, too! So, as long as I don’t die of starvation tomorrow (which would be really impressive) then this should cover the difficult patch until I get a job. I should be able to stay with them until then, I think. Yay! and PHEW!