Spidergate

Yet another spider has ventured into my room. This one is quite a lot larger than the rest.

He was hiding behind my laundry basket and scared the bajeesus out of me. This was three days ago...I haven't seen him since, I've been scared of touching anything I can't clearly see ever since.


In other news, my dog keeps on looking at me like this:

And I don't know what he wants.

A creepy guy on the bus creeped me out and that makes me mad

So this guy on the bus yesterday morning was being generally creepy, asking for my number, trying to get my home address, telling me that I smelled nice, etc. and it made me really uncomfortable and I'm pissed off about that.

I'm a feminist, so I'm pretty well versed in women's issues, specifically rape. I keep on reading all these stories about women being harassed and followed home and stalked and such and it freaks me out a lot. I've never had this kind of thing happen to me before, this is the first time a guy has hit on me and I've felt trapped. Usually it'll be at a party or something, they'll say whatever and I'll walk away. But on a bus I didn't have the option and that scared me.

This guy was sitting behind me, he introduced himself when I got on and asked if he could sit next to me, I said "...okay" and I now know that that was a bad response because he didn't take that as, 'she obviously doesn't want me to sit next to her, I should leave her alone.' he took it as me saying 'Okay! I would love for you to sit next to me.' So he sits next to me and I'm like, 'Oh shit, what do I do now?' He asks me all sorts of questions, all of which I give fake answers to, except when he asks me if I have a boyfriend. Stupidly, I say that I don't have a boyfriend. I could have ended all of this by saying that I had a boyfriend, I'm sure he would have left me alone if I had.

It makes me so mad that someone is allowed to make me so uncomfortable to the point that I feel like I have to lie in answer to all of his questions. I shouldn't have to worry about whether this guy will somehow find out where I live or that he'll stalk me and maybe rape me. It's complete bullshit that I have to feel so paranoid and anxious on a bus. I was literally shaking in my seat terrified of what was going to happen next.

He got off at the same stop that I did, walked next to me for a while even when I went an unconventional route. Eventually he had to go in a different direction to me. What makes me even madder was that he tried to kiss me, I turned my head so he just got my cheek, but it makes me so mad that someone feels that they have the right to do that without my permission.

The rest of the day I couldn't stop looking around me. It pissed me off that that ruined my day, I still had a nice time shopping with my friend, but I was paranoid and anxious all day.

Oh God, what did I just do to myself?!

I just drank two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a cup of water. The internet told me it would cure me of my sinusitis (yeah, I'm sick yet again), but half way through drinking this cup of death a thought occurred to me. From my understanding, my stomach is in no way connected with my sinuses. I may have just drunken that horrible concoction for no reason.

Drinking apple cider vinegar, even diluted in water, is the worst thing ever. I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect it to taste quite as bad. Maybe because I saw "apple" and thought, 'hey, I like apples'. Let me tell you, it does not taste like apples. It tastes like it will make me worse than make me better.

I'm worried that apple cider vinegar is supposed to cure the sore throat that can accompany sinusitis, but I don't have a sore throat.

If this doesn't cure me I am going to be so mad.