I’m sitting in the mansion right now, looking down at a copy of The Big Sleep, which I should be reading for one of my classes. The maintenance crew has made it their job today to remove some of the spider webs from around the building. When I was a freshman, I used to walk out to the archway in the courtyard to look at the web the spiders created. I’m not sure if it was meditative or something, but I got really attached to watching them, and I hate to see their masterpieces destroyed. Yes, I guess I do get a sick sense of satisfaction when one of them falls on the maintenance guy with the long yellow broom. In his shriek there is justice.
Posts Tagged ‘Spiders’
On Housekeeping
Posted in College Life, Daily life, tagged Cleaning, justice, Spiders on September 16, 2010| 4 Comments »
Dreams
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alarm clock, Spiders on April 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’ve run out of space in my personal drive at school. The problem is that I’ve already deleted everything I can do without. I do have a 4 gig flash drive I can run off of, but after my old one being stolen, I’m afraid I’ll lose just about everything important. I wish I could just attach an internal hard drive to my brain. It would be incredibly helpful.
I very rarely dream, but this morning I had a particularly vivid one. After I thought I turned my alarm clock off, I went straight back to sleep. What felt like moments late, I pictured a small black spider, no taller than an inch, crawling a long my wall. As my alarm started pull me into reality, the spider grew bigger and browner, and crawled in the direction of my face. I woke up freaking out when it got to be about the size of my head. I cursed my alarm clock, but what’s really bothering me about it is why it’s a spider? Do the chemicals in my brain find it necessary to personify terror and interruption together?
My current state of mind:
Stage Fright 