Unidentified Spidey Object
There are five of these in our garage right now. They're about the size of a ping pong ball when you include their legs. I googled "Pennsylvania Spiders" and I couldn't find anything that looked like this. Maybe it's like Arachnophobia and a rare spider mated with a common spider and now I have a freaky hybrid in our garage! Mah! I have a pet spider, so this one doesn't freak me out too much, but I still wonder what kind it is. And I still wouldn't want to find one in the house a la that shower scene in arachnaphobia.
I worked out tonight. I'm inspired by JT's effort at training for a marathon. Maybe I'll start running too! I was always the kid that was half jog-walking in the back of the line during the mandatory mile run. So I've always been intrigued by the athletic. I hated it when they introduced the presidential fitness test. Is that crap still around? We had to run a mile, do as many pull ups as we could (zero), do sit ups, and then do this thing where we sat with our legs straight out in front of us and then reached forward past our feet. Oh how I loathed presidential fitness test day!
Posted by jen at May 16, 2005 11:26 PM
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Wow, bringing back the bad memories of that stupid Presidential Fitness Test... I was only good at the "sit and reach" test, and dreadfully bad at the others... I don't know if it is still around...
Posted by: Lolly at May 17, 2005 08:42 AM
http://www.presidentschallenge.org/
I'm not sure if it's the same torture we endured or a new type, specially designed to make this generation miserable.
And, wow, I've become an inspiration. What an unbelievable feeling of...pressure. Just what I need to go along with the agony in my legs. :-)
Posted by: Jay T at May 17, 2005 12:56 PM
Oh, wow - I forgot about that nightmare Presidential Fitness Test. I absolutely could *not* do that sit & stretch thing. I was so unlimber that even my cute phy ed teacher (my first crush) laughed. I mean, it was really bad. Like if everyone was getting a 20, I got a 5. The pull-ups were bad too. I did get a certificate signed by George H.W. Bush, however. If I got one, everyone did.
Posted by: Kiddo78 at May 17, 2005 04:02 PM
Don't you think any kind of Presidential Test should have to do with intelligence and not physical stuff? Yeesh. I remember that damn test. Who in the fuck can do pull-ups? Why would anyone want to move their arms in such a fashion?
Posted by: Anne Marie at May 17, 2005 04:52 PM
awwwww... that brings back some memories!
Posted by: frecklegirl at May 17, 2005 10:22 PM
