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IT CRAWLED ALONG THE WALL WHEN I WAS LOOKING
IT HAS ABOUT A ZILLION LEGS, IS MAYBE AN INCH LONG, AND LOOKS ALMOST FURRY

BLURRY CLOSE-UP OF FREAKY-LOOKING BUG IS AT THIS LINK I SWEAR TO GOD DON'T CLICK IF YOU GET SQUEAMISH, THIS GODDAMN THING IS LOVECRAFTIAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

DEAR GOD WHERE DID IT GO
IT'S NOT IN THE CORNER ANYMORE

edit: it's now ABOVE MY HEAD LORDY IT COULD JUMP AT ANY MOMENT
Abbie sees it and he is none too pleased with it either. AM READYING THE SMUSHY-THING AND THE DUSTPAN FOR QUICK DISPOSAL

edit 2: I smushed it. It ran. My god it could move. I had a styrofoam brick-thing from the TV set box and I just started smacking at it. It was above my door. It left a smudge on the wall. At least the smudge means it's D-E-D. Christ, I'm leaving it there and going to bed.

though I must say I'm very impressed that I got the cameraphone so close to the goddamn thing. if it had moved while I was near, though, lordy we'd have had A Real Situation On Our Hands.

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Oh yeah. I knew what it was going to be even before I saw the picture.

I live in a basement apartment with some of those. I called the first one 'Duriel' on account of its many legs and blinding speed. They're harmless unless you happen to be a slower bug. They are the cheetahs of the arthropod world, and probably the main reason why I don't have crickets or roaches in here.

In an annoying little quirk of evolution, their main survival imperative seems to be 'when the light comes on, run for the nearest shadow'. If the nearest shadow is someone's shoe, so be it. That's a bit unnerving, when they run at you.

I lived in a rural area with a partly-finished basement for sixteen years, and never saw one. I only saw them when we moved to the city. Our cat used to go into the basement of the city house and hunt the big ones. He'd come upstairs with a four-inch leg stuck in his ruff. It was rather like seeing a sperm whale with giant sucker marks all over its face, and being unable to comprehend the size of the squid it must have tangled with.