look who's talking...

i had this really brilliant thought earlier today.
then i lost it.
i was talking to one of my awesome roommates, and somehow we wound up on politics.  don't worry- that had nothing to do with my brilliant thought. politics aren't brilliant.  they are a mess, pure and simple...or rather, corrupted and complicated. but i do feel that anyone with a blog should have the right to talk about politics regardless of qualifications, so anyone looking for a good debate should check back here in 6-12 months and i'm sure i'll have an opinion about it.
my brain now feels numb.  doing laundry in that laundry room during the hottest part of the day was not my best move.  it did, however, result in clean clothes.
i found Brown Recluse #24-ish crawling on one of my shirts yesterday morning, which is disappointing.  we had the apartment gassed in order to get rid of them all.  there's something un-nerving about knowing there are poisonous spiders lurking about, just waiting to pop out and take a chomp out of your foot.  but they have a special fondness for my room, or at least only come out when i'm around.  weird.  creepy.  it took days before the chills went away, at least once i figured out that they were al BRs.  one quick google search confirmed my suspicion.  guess what?  they really do have these violin-shaped things on their backs.  and eerily long legs.  and massive fangs.  i never really thought those descriptions worked, for brown recluses OR black widows.  seriously, telling a person that they don't have to worry about those big black spiders unless they have a bright red hourglass shape...on their underside.... where's the logic in that?  who's gonna be the one to flip that bugger over so i can see its tummy before i decide if i'm going to smash it or not?  really?   just going to put this out there: if there's anything with more than four (4) limbs uninvited in my living establishment, it's probably going to die, markings or not.  flyswatters work on a variety of small irritating exoskeletons, not just flies.
if i ever remember that brilliant thought, i'll have to clue all 3 of my regulars in- now that i'm one of those cool blog people, i can go for as long as i want!!