AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

So I HATE cockroaches.....

I've tried a variety of desensitizing techniques but I vehemently despise, abhor, and loath them.  So suffice it to say that when I returned from an evening bike ride to find Joe's Apartment in my kitchen I freaked. I got the surface spray and went ape wild!

I got to my room, my holy place, my shrine to clean and all that is calm and I see a shadow skitter across the floor.... I shudder. "surely not in MY room" yet I see it... I get closer in the corner next to the bed and the wall and I spray with all my might but what comes flying at me is NOT a cockroach but a HUMONGOUS spider with a roach in it's mouth!!!!

Yes kids, it's true. I had an out of body experience tonight. I simultaneously wanted to end the life of one species and preserve the life of another whilst petrified with an aerosol can in my hand as my only means of continuing forth.

It turns out that this spider is actually a Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda venatoria) and non toxic to me. You must understand that this spider is a good 4" across so it gave me a real start and with a roach in it's jowls.... I was forced to capture it.

Turns out it's quite timid... I might have accidentally captured a friend in my battle against las cucarachas.... the morning will deicide it's fate. I look forward to moving away from this roach hostel in the next two weeks.