big brown spider laughing at the box
2005-10-04 || 7:01 p.m.

Okay. So we are painting our Viking shields this afternoon and I have two girls folding the painting shirts and putting them back into the large plastic box. Suddenly one of them comes over to me to tell me, very calmly, that there is a VERY LARGE SPIDER in the box. I go to look and indeed there is a VERY LARGE SPIDER in the box. So, in my usual way, I breezily say, no problem, I will just tip it out of the window. And I carry the large plastic box over to the window.

30 seconds later I have succeeded in dropping the spider back into the classroom and the box out of the second floor window.

Yeah. Really.