Sure I got spiders. Mostly there are the daddy long legs variety that hang innocently in the corners of the bathroom. I tend to leave those guys alone since they hoover up the insects. It's the big, hairy freaky spiders that I have to watch out for.

Rather than describe them, I going to give you a snippet of the Instant Message conversation I had with my brother the day after the first of these spiders showed in my place (that would be the 22nd of January at 1:21AM, in case you were curious):

hechtic1: last night
hechtic1: im trying to go to sleep
hechtic1: it's about 130
hechtic1: makelani is sleeping on me
hechtic1: i can hear filemu
hechtic1: making sounds like she's chasing a critter
hechtic1: that she cant get to
hechtic1: i turn on the lights
hechtic1: she's sitting on the armrest of my wooden chair
hechtic1: looking up at the ceiling
hechtic1: i look up
hechtic1: there's a huge fucking spider
hechtic1: like the size of my palm
hechtic1: and there's something under it's belly
brianhecht: arachnophobia
hechtic1: i take a closer look
hechtic1: it's an egg sack
hechtic1: it's bigger than her
hechtic1: i took a few digital shots
hechtic1: then i got out the bug spray
hechtic1: i fired a quick burst
hechtic1: she starts to move
hechtic1: and a few little spiders run out of the egg sack
hechtic1: I'm thinking, holy shit, I'm going to have spiders all over this place
hechtic1: i let loose with the bug spray
hechtic1: she falls to the floor
hechtic1: the egg sack falls the floor
hechtic1: I'm trying to keep the cats away
hechtic1: hundreds of little spiders burst forth from the sack
hechtic1: she limps under the chair
hechtic1: I'm spraying like a madman after i sequester the cats in the bathroom
hechtic1: i search for the spider
hechtic1: can't see it
hechtic1: then I see her crawling towards the kitchen
hechtic1: i grab the dust broom
hechtic1: and scoop her ass and the egg sack out the door
hechtic1: frightening
brianhecht: do you have any good books?
brianhecht: are you reading something?
brianhecht: and how's the social life?
brianhecht: do the volunteers go out a lot?
brianhecht: are there places to go out?
hechtic1: sorry, there's a paper jam
hechtic1: brb
brianhecht: no worries

Clearly, my brother lost interest in the end, but it freaked me out and it continues to freak me out whenever I see one of these of these hairy monsters roaming the walls.