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I'm an arachnophobe. (ie. fear of spiders). And no, haven't tried to get past it. Well sort of. But again, no.
I got to the point, finally, that I don't actually believe the spider is actually going to jump up and eat my face. Or come back to life after I kill it and eat my face. Or burrow into a cut on my face or body and lay little spider baby eggs. (But there are days that I'm not entirely certain.)
Cause: devilish kids who thought it was funny to throw spiders at me as a child and tell gruesome horror tales about them - well jumping up and eating your face. Also probably did not help seeing what a brown recluse spider bite does to you up close and personal. Nasty. The poison eats the skin. (Initial cause? At age of 6, someone dumped a jar of daddy long legs on my head. Then when we were playing and about to go into a cool fort, we didn't because a huge wolf spider blocked our path - which caused the gal behind me to let a blood curdling scream when she discovered she was about to place her hand on top of it.) Moral of tale - practical jokes regarding spiders can have disasterous side-effects.
In other news? bored at work, obviously. I have 0 tolerance for boredom.
Crazy busy, I can deal with. Slow lulls make me crazy. And wish people would not hang out near my cubicle or show up behind me. Makes sneaking online and writing posts to fend off boredom risky. Or riskier than usual.
TV viewing? Dollhouse isn't on tonight. But it is getting all 13 episodes shown, so no worries. Yay Fox - who apparently has learned its lesson regarding cancelling tv series and not showing the episodes (eg. Firefly).
Not clear yet if it will make it to a third season, but I'll be surprised.
Can't see it getting the viewership that Fox requires for this to happen.
Far too cultish and nitch for that - ie. it appeals to left of center culture nerds like yours truly. And we don't tend to watch commericials and buy expensive cars.
Will most likely watch Supernatural (SPN) or wait until Sat to do it. Don't tend to watch SPN at night - too spooky, well it used to be too spooky, now not so much.
I'm an arachnophobe. (ie. fear of spiders). And no, haven't tried to get past it. Well sort of. But again, no.
I got to the point, finally, that I don't actually believe the spider is actually going to jump up and eat my face. Or come back to life after I kill it and eat my face. Or burrow into a cut on my face or body and lay little spider baby eggs. (But there are days that I'm not entirely certain.)
Cause: devilish kids who thought it was funny to throw spiders at me as a child and tell gruesome horror tales about them - well jumping up and eating your face. Also probably did not help seeing what a brown recluse spider bite does to you up close and personal. Nasty. The poison eats the skin. (Initial cause? At age of 6, someone dumped a jar of daddy long legs on my head. Then when we were playing and about to go into a cool fort, we didn't because a huge wolf spider blocked our path - which caused the gal behind me to let a blood curdling scream when she discovered she was about to place her hand on top of it.) Moral of tale - practical jokes regarding spiders can have disasterous side-effects.
In other news? bored at work, obviously. I have 0 tolerance for boredom.
Crazy busy, I can deal with. Slow lulls make me crazy. And wish people would not hang out near my cubicle or show up behind me. Makes sneaking online and writing posts to fend off boredom risky. Or riskier than usual.
TV viewing? Dollhouse isn't on tonight. But it is getting all 13 episodes shown, so no worries. Yay Fox - who apparently has learned its lesson regarding cancelling tv series and not showing the episodes (eg. Firefly).
Not clear yet if it will make it to a third season, but I'll be surprised.
Can't see it getting the viewership that Fox requires for this to happen.
Far too cultish and nitch for that - ie. it appeals to left of center culture nerds like yours truly. And we don't tend to watch commericials and buy expensive cars.
Will most likely watch Supernatural (SPN) or wait until Sat to do it. Don't tend to watch SPN at night - too spooky, well it used to be too spooky, now not so much.
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Date: 2009-10-17 12:51 am (UTC)Totally get that. I'm not afraid of them, but they do gross me out. Ick. And like spiders, hard to kill. And I admittedly avoided the horror flick Mimic. Although oddly had no problem with Kafka's Metamphorsis.
I saw Belle Chose. Have mixed feelings about the episode. I love the actor who plays Victor - he is unbelievably good in that role. Actually everyone was good in that episode, except for Eliza Dusku. Interesting episode, but I am getting tired of the serial killer cliche. Wish they'd go a different route.