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Now with bonus Korean!

We live on a lake. This probably seems awesome to you, unless you too live on a lake. In which case you will know that along with the pretty sunsets and awesome picnic opportunities everyone visualises when they hear the words "live on a lake" come mildew, goose shit, and tons of bugs and spiders.

Our spiders happen to be of the 3/4-inch long, furry, hopping variety. I generally encounter three to five of them a day in my bedroom and resolve the situation by trapping them under glasses and taking them out to our backyard.

Unless they happen to drop out of the sky onto my head, in which case I run screaming out into the kitchen crying for ma mere like a pussy she can somehow make it better. (She didn't. What she did do was get the spider on her after it sailed off me as I tore down the hallway.)

Having taken care of that spider after a satisfying mutual freakout, I assumed I'd fulfilled my spider-human-contact quota for the month.

Oh, how naive I was.

This evening I was gtalking with an individual whom we will refer to only as "PhD" when a second spider dropped out of the sky and landed on my eyelid before attempting to escape by running down my face and under my shirt. As you may imagine, this resulted in my ripping off my headset and mic and shrieking as though I were being terminated with extreme prejudice. (Fun fact: scream loud enough and gtalk will drop the call.)

When I got back on the phone several moments later, PhD was understandably concerned.

무슨 일이야?
(What happened?), quoth he. To which I replied,

큰 거미가 위에서 나와서 내 얼굴에 서 있었어!
(lit. "A big spider came out of above and stood on my face!")

PhD: 어, 큰 거미가 드러났어 얼굴에 붙었어?
      (Oh, you mean a big spider appeared and got on your face?)

Moi: 네, 갑자기 드러났어 얼굴에 붙었어. 너무 무서웠어!
      Yeah, it appeared all of a sudden and got on my face. It was really scary!)

So hurrah! for my ability to actually convey a completely random-ass set of circumstances in passable Korean under extreme mental duress. And while we're at it, hurray for fear-directed learning. I think I'm gonna have those verbs down from here on out.

That will be all.

on 2010-10-01 01:26 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] firesign10.livejournal.com
HOLY CRAP!!

There would not have been resumption of phone call for me, as I would either be changing my underwear or ded. So kudos to you :-D

on 2010-10-01 05:32 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/spiders-are-scary-its-okay-to-be-afraid.html

(Posting this as a comment to [livejournal.com profile] firesign10's comment because I believe she would appreciate this blog entry as well. ^_~)

Hurray for international communication under duress!

on 2010-10-03 03:32 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akujunkan.livejournal.com
Hurrah for Hyperbole and a Half pimp linkage! Ironically, I just logged on to do a jobsearch update post which I planned to segue into with Adult Responsibility (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html) linkage^^

on 2010-10-03 03:33 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akujunkan.livejournal.com
I did die a little inside, but would have died even more if PhD were to find me a big shrieky wuss. So I had no choice but to salvage the conversation!

on 2010-10-01 02:07 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] metal-dog5.livejournal.com
3/4" spider? IS TINY. While I freely admit I wouldn't want one jumping on my face, it'd be about the same fear factor as if a fly landed on me. Unless of course they have the same level of toxicity as a red-back does, and then it'd be an OMFG-GETTHEBLOODYSPIDEROFFMENOW!!!

on 2010-10-03 03:38 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akujunkan.livejournal.com
If by red-black you mean black widow, then no, they are not that toxic, but they do give nasty bites and I was not about to have one on my eyelid. The fear factor comes from their apparent desire to chill on my person; I don't mind them when they don't indulge, because Japan's buffet options for massive, gnarly spiderhood have pretty much inured me to anything INakaville has to offer^^

Can I....?

on 2010-10-02 02:32 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] dark-waterlily.livejournal.com
Give you my answer this sunday? I mean I have this image in my mind and I will translate it into a beautiful work of art depicting how In my life scary shit awaits for me in my dreams.
Please stay tuned!

Re: Can I....?

on 2010-10-03 03:38 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] akujunkan.livejournal.com
Go for it! You know I always <333 looking at your art:-)

link...

on 2010-10-04 02:58 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] dark-waterlily.livejournal.com
I almost forgot to post link.
http://dark-waterlily.livejournal.com/100524.html
Don't panic if you see my lj theme being weird... I am testing lj styles.
Bye!

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