itsy bitsy spider

so i'm driving to school this morning when right around christie and davenport i look down at my steering wheel and spot this enormous spider just lying there staring at me. (ok, so maybe he wasn't staring at me and maybe he wasn't so enormous and maybe he wasn't even a he but a she but still...) anyway, like most normal people i'm not exactly crazy about our eight-legged friends so i screamed a few times and then i swatted the little guy away. only it turns out that i swatted the little guy right onto my lap so now i'm trying to make the turn from davenport onto christie with a spider in my lap and i'm not exactly having a good time as you can imagine. you see, the problem was that i kept looking down to see if i could locate the whereabouts of my little visitor while simultaneously looking up to see if i could locate the whereabouts of the intersection i was passing through. then, just as i completed the turn onto christie, i spotted the spider in my lap so i screamed a few more times before i swatted him/her away a second time, only this time onto the passenger-side floormat. mercifully, a few minutes later i finally arrived at my destination so i quickly hopped out of my vehicle and closed the door behind me. but then it occurred to me that the spider was still hiding out somewhere inside my vehicle so naturally i began to dread the end of the day when i would be forced to confront the spider once again, only this time he/she would be royally pissed at me because i had kept him/her locked up inside a stiflingly hot vehicle for the better part of the day with the windows up.

"always do what you are afraid to do." - ralph waldo emerson

p.s. whatever happens on wednesday afternoon, i am enormously proud of my squad for coming together as a team and playing perhaps their finest game of the season earlier today. matched up against the toughest competition they have faced all year, the girls pulled out a convincing 15-3 victory over their crosstown rivals.

mood music from the royal tenenbaums: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHDbCC0Ongs&feature=related