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Notes from a Sleepy, Spider-Fearing, Twenty-Something Entrepreneur
Posted on July 18, 2011 in ridiculous1. I have killed far too many spiders in my house this week. And not killed two that were near my bed and may now be in my bed. Shockingly, sleep has been hard to come by and I have fang marks on my ear. No, not joking. Fang. Marks. Gross.
2. The absolute worst businesses for customer service are internet and cable companies. It’s fully expected that at some point these things would break. But when they do break, you get to hang around your house without internet or cable for four to eight hours, waiting for the technician who can fix the mysterious issues that keep your internet/cable from working. No other business can work this way. When you call the plumber or a carpenter or painters or any other sort of service that makes house calls, they’ll give you a specific time or a short window (“I’ll be there around one,” or “I’ll be there between one and two”). How does this not apply to internet companies? I’m looking at you, Qwest.
3. I saw Harry Potter’s final installment this week, which was good, but would have been better if the theater was not full of the noisiest children, teenagers and eaters alive today. OH MY GOSH. BE QUIET. I MISSED A WEASLEY JOKE.
4. The Hunger Games books = still awesome.
5. This.
That’ll be all.
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I was sitting at an outside table earlier this summer and got 6-8 spider bites on my feet. Never saw the spider/s but the bites really hurt and my feet swelled up like crazy—the nurse said because they hurt and didn’t itch they were spider bites. Fortunately ice and benadryl cleared up the swelling but the bites actually blistered and looked nasty for about a month…ugh!
Oh my, fang marks??
I have been killing a lot as well. Particularly when I am sitting on the couch in the evenings reading or watching a movie…and almost every couple days a spider will come down from the ceiling and land near/on me (one landed on my face, and i freaked out so much i never got around to killing it). But the worst was a few nights ago; I was in bed and i felt something tickling my leg as i was falling asleep and i couldn’t get it to stop. I turned on the light and under the covers, on my shin was a giant daddy long legs. ewww.
Poing being: I feel ya and I’m glad i’m not alone in this spidery mess.
Ugh, horrible! Barb, you have me beat. Elisa, I’m sorry to hear about the face incident. If I found one on my face, I don’t know what I’d do. It’s bad enough to have little bumps all up my neck…suspicious.