Jul. 3rd, 2013

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This is the time of year when my apartment becomes infested by tiny spiders. At first they are not even the size of baby fruit flies. They drift randomly through the air like dust particles, to which they bear an uncanny resemblance, or drop unexpectedly from the ceiling and tentatively explore my neck and arms until I squish them.

In a week or two, they will have grown to perhaps the size of my pinky fingernail and turned sort of translucent yellow-brown. I will begin finding them skittering around my shower, where, again, I will squish them.

(I am generally in favor of live-and-let-live when it comes to spiders -- they eat mosquitoes and flies, you see -- but anything that touches my skin or surprises me in the shower trips my "DEATH EVERYWHERE!!!" reflex.)

Air conditioning drastically reduces the number of insects and moths that get into my apartment and bumble drunkenly through the air at stupid hours of the night, but it does nothing to mitigate the annual spider hatching. :-(

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