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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Baby Spiders 

People with arachnophobia should stay away from this post.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was a pretty normal day. It was actually a very nice day, as well. It was mostly sunny, but not too terribly hot out. Carrie had a split-shift, but she came home later than usual due to work shenanigans. She made a salad with half the leftover salmon from the barbeque on Monday night, and I made a gigantro cheese quésadilla.

After that we played a game of Mario Kart. Later on Carrie decided to go for a walk, and as she was getting ready to leave I stepped out on the front porch to enjoy the nice weather. I was just casually looking around when something on the rhododendron bush to my left caught my eye. Here's what it was:

That's about 200 baby spiders. Each one was maybe one to two millimeters wide. Pale yellow with a black dot on the thorax. Carrie asked what I was looking at, so I said, "About 200 baby spiders."

"Eew!" she cried. "Can you get rid of them?"

"Yeah. You better get out of here. And stay away from this part of the porch," I motioned around the area of the spiders.

So she walked up to Linnea's and back while I got some paper towels and broke up the baby spider party without killing any of them.

I took Carrie back to teach her class in the evening and then made a parmesan pasta with the rest of the leftover salmon. The best part about it was that I just walked out to the backyard and tore off some fresh herbs to chop up and put in the sauce. Very gratifying.

Then I watched the director's commentary on Equilibrium. My favorite parts (paraphrasing, despite the fact that I put them in quotes):

"A lot of people have accused this film of ripping off other films like Clockwork Orange, Bladerunner, The Matrix, Metropolis, even Triumph of the Will. And it's... well, true. I really like all of those stories (and many of those films), and I was certainly influenced by them."

and

"I actually think it's boring when the good guy is getting beat up by the bad guy at the end. I mean, you know the good guy is going to win. I think it's much more entertaining to get to watch the good guy be a complete badass."

I went and picked up Carrie & Laura and took Laura to her house before returning home. It was after 11:00 by the time we got back.

posted by Christopher at 10:24 AM

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