arachnaphobia

I have a new blog thing, because all my friends are at this other site... nobody seems to know about it yet, but here's the address: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=peacefreak77 so you should go to it sometime...
I opened up my Discover magazine for the month (but I'm getting behind, I haven't even read August's yet, I got really caught up in the string theory and how photons interfere with themselves, and had a random, brief, violent phase of quantum physics madness, because quantum and astrophysics are awesome) and there was this article on hobo spiders. And my best friend's mom has been telling us forever those big hairy things we find all over are hobo spiders, and that they are poisonous... one time she had this bite on her leg, and it looked really gross, like a pit of dead tissue or something. So I read the article, and they had a map of where hobo spiders live, and we are in the boundaries (it's western Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Then I looked at a picture, and grabbed these sticky mouse trap things we use to catch spiders in our house (but more often they catch me, and leave me screaming my head off because my foot is stuck to the trap a centimeter away from some huge, hairy spider), and looked in a magnifying glass, and sure enough they were hobo spiders.
Really comforting, huh?
http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-05/features/bite-of-the-hobo-spider/
Yesterday I went out with a bunch of people, drove around, played shoe, nearly ran our brand new yukon SUV into a house and a fence (those things are hard to turn around in, especially in places where my Ford escort can't even turn around... I had to keep getting out of the car and inching forward/back so I wouldn't smash into something). Kyrstin left the clue of where she had her first kiss, and Siobhan knew where that was, and I asked her about it and she said it's a great place to stargaze, so I'm going to drag Matt there tonight... hopefully I won't drone on about the constellations, stars, Perseids, and how awesomely close Mars is getting. Other people don't seem to be nearly as interested in astronomy as me... in fact other people don't seem to be nearly as interesting in anything as me, except history, Matt's way more interested in that, and geography. But I am unnaturally interested in physics, biology, chemistry, calculus, and English.
Oh well, someday it'll be good to be smart and people won't think I'm a freak because I read astronomy books and science magazines and philosophy in my free time.