I just watched a spider catch its breakfast. Very cool!

The one side of the building is all windows and the stairs are on this side.
So there are usually plenty of spiders early inthe morning with their webs
built right outside these windows. It's really neat because it means I get
to see them closer than I usually would. So this morning as I passed, I
looked up to see one, larger than most, silhouetted against the tinged-pink
morning sky - pretty all on its own.... but then! A mosquito happened by and
would have missed the web entirely except that the spider began vigorously
shaking it! The mosquito was trapped and the spider ran over and grabbed it,
securing another meal. Good timing on my part, since this was on my way up
to collect the ballot box print-outs and by the time I came back down the
spider, and its breakfast, were nowhere to be seen.

Tags: spider

This morning I kept waking up. I had lots of dreams. In one I was trying to
go to work and realized that I was something like an hour later than I
should have been and then i was going in the wrong direction and then I was
at this store and I was riding a bike and still intending to try to be at
work. but i needed to find a place to stash my bike and bag of clothes. So I
was in a staff break room or somehting at this store and there were these
piles of clothes and people kept coming in and taking and leaving clothing
items. I think people stole the clothes I had in my bag because I left it
unattended for a few minutes but i couldn't remember what had been in it so
i wasn't sure. i just knew that there weren't any in there any more and I
thought there had been. So there was a lady who was going to help me. She
was going to sell me a key to use for the day so I could come back and get
my stuff that was goign to be locked up. I dont know what ended up
happening. next thing i remember is trying to find a list of work phone
numbers so i could call in and say i was having car problems (boy was I, if
i was riding a bike!) and was on my way. but I couldn't find the list and I
kept looking.

That might be the first work-related dream I've had so far.


I was watching spiders this morning when I got here. There are huge windows
on the side of the building and you can see them from the stairs. So when
I'm going up to get the ballot box printouts I usually stop to see if there
are any there. Back after i first started there was one warm warm morning
and I saw one building a web. It was so neat looking. I just sat and watched
it for a while. The way the building is situated the sun shines perfectly to
highlight the webs. So this morning I saw one eating somehting. And a few
baby spiders inbaby spider webs, but still so perfectly formed. And one that
was just hanging out.

I had one of the photographers get me a coffee when he went. So now i will
be caffeinated ealier than usual. yay!

Tags: dream, spider
Currently feeling: bouncy