Oooh! I have a giant spider living in my house. A couple weeks ago, I thought I saw something largish creep under the fridge in the middle of the night, but I wasn't sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks in the dark. Until a few minutes ago when I went to roll up the curtain of my bedroom window and saw the little critter hunched motionless right below the window where the floor meets the wall. It's very dark brown with a light fuzz of short hair all over. The body alone looks well over three centimeters, making it the largest live spider I've ever seen that wasn't under glass.

Now I finally have a pet to rival the turtles in Becca and Avraham's courtyard. I wonder if I should leave my window screens open to let in bugs for it to eat. I wonder what I should name it.