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- 2 heaping tablespoons of intelligence
- a scoop of flirting
- 1 1/2 cups of friendliness

Boil together and serve.
'What is your personality recipe?' at QuizGalaxy.com


It's been a pretty rough few days. The physical and emotional symptoms of menstruation have been kicking me to the curb (they seem to get worse every month), and for some reason, probably the cooler and darker days, I've been thinking of my mom a lot. I haven't been able to work very well and seem to spend a lot of time wandering aimlessly (mentally speaking). Exercise? Forget about it.

On the other hand, taking my first dose of meds an hour before I'm supposed to get up has been working very well. I'm actually able to get out of bed relatively effortlessly, as opposed to the sheer impossibility of doing so even a week ago. The multivitamin I've started taking every day might have something to do with that as well.

And amazingly, the spider outside our living room window is still alive. I saw her in her web last night. Given how cold it's getting, I doubt she has much longer to live.
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We have a HUGE spider that's spun a web just outside our living room window. Here are a couple of pictures of her (I'm assuming it's female because of its largeness):

Spider ahoy! )

Her body, not including the legs, is about an inch long.

Any help that anyone can give in identifying her species would be appreciated.

EDITED TO ADD: The word from Yahoo!Answers is that she's an orb weaver:

http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/orbwea.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider

More specifically, she's likely a Neoscona crucifera.

EDITED TO ADD 2: Or, she might be an Araneus cavaticus -- also called the Barn Spider.

Hee. Good to know. I always like to know more about the animals that share my living space, and even though she's on the other side of a screen from me, I still count her as being close enough.

(And sorry about that, [livejournal.com profile] dark_puck... I suppose I should have put a stronger warning on my link...)
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