I think I'd go insane working at a gym though. When I go to work out I have my headphones on FULL BLAST because the music is terrible (top 40, so all the Fergie and Rihanna you can't stand to hear) and because the conversations I overhear sometimes completely sour my outlook on humanity. I guess I ought to clarify I mean the big corporate gyms like I've been going to, little privately owned gyms are usually pretty cool!
At my last residence, I had regular encounters with freakishly enormous wolf spiders who, with legs fully outstretched, were as big as my hand. It was truly a surreal experience seeing those monsters, it confirmed that there was no meaning in the universe.
On one level, I understand that they will not bite unless threatened, that their bites do not generally cause tissue necrosis, and that all spiders release a minimum amount of venom as it is a huge drain on their metabolism to create more.
I've just had many upsetting encounters, including a bite two years ago that made my entire arm swell up and scared the shit out of me. It was like a hot staple gun on my arm, and the fang marks STILL haven't gone away! Just two little pinpricks remain, reminding me of the Damocletian* sword of my mortality!
* A word possibly made up and coined earlier by failing_angel
I kill mostly roaches and things that are attacking or stinging me, otherwise I let things go. Your festively-attired spider sounds cute!
I can look at pictures of spiders, see them in movies and such and not be skeeved, but when it's IN THE ROOM with me and more horribly, headed right for me, I lose my shit and either start flailing or run away.
We went on a nature walk in Wekiva springs and just off the wooden walkway there were these goddamn banana spiders in six foot webs.
Nathan runs for a shoe whenever I start wibbling about roaches, but he HATES killing spiders--food chain and all that. We only seem to get wolf and house spiders though, so then he can he catches and releases them outside. Which I'm fine with, so long as I'm not involved.
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Funny thing... ...I've been applying for jobs at Fitness First...
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I think I'd go insane working at a gym though. When I go to work out I have my headphones on FULL BLAST because the music is terrible (top 40, so all the Fergie and Rihanna you can't stand to hear) and because the conversations I overhear sometimes completely sour my outlook on humanity. I guess I ought to clarify I mean the big corporate gyms like I've been going to, little privately owned gyms are usually pretty cool!
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I've just had many upsetting encounters, including a bite two years ago that made my entire arm swell up and scared the shit out of me. It was like a hot staple gun on my arm, and the fang marks STILL haven't gone away! Just two little pinpricks remain, reminding me of the Damocletian* sword of my mortality!
* A word possibly made up and coined earlier by failing_angel
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I can look at pictures of spiders, see them in movies and such and not be skeeved, but when it's IN THE ROOM with me and more horribly, headed right for me, I lose my shit and either start flailing or run away.
We went on a nature walk in Wekiva springs and just off the wooden walkway there were these goddamn banana spiders in six foot webs.
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Nathan runs for a shoe whenever I start wibbling about roaches, but he HATES killing spiders--food chain and all that. We only seem to get wolf and house spiders though, so then he can he catches and releases them outside. Which I'm fine with, so long as I'm not involved.
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And I think the gym is over there (flexes) somewhere!
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