Flies: Bigger? I’m not sure. Qualitative measures are a bit hard to judge, especially when I don’t have the specimens side by side. I wonder if I should start capturing and storing flies, for purposes of comparison.
Wow, I really am losing it. Who knew there was such a thin line between “scientist” and “batshit insane”?
Spiders: 10 since last time
I told Chloe about the words in the wall and she was like, whoa, that’s so cool! You have to show me. So I guess that’s a thing.
I was annoyed at first, because I’m really worried about Logan and this seemed like a pretty traumatic experience for him. I mean, it’s not a joke. And then, hell, I’ll admit it, I was pretty freaked out too—I don’t even have to sleep in that room, but I see those words behind my eyelids as I’m drifting off to sleep most nights now, and let me tell you, it’s unsettling.
So I was kind of pissy with Chloe about it at first, and not interested in hearing her stupid goth enthusiasm for everything spooky, as if this was some Halloween theme park run by the local church or something, rather than our actual lives. But even though I was kind of moody about it, she kept pressing for more details and descriptions, and wouldn’t let it drop, and . . . well, I guess her enthusiasm is kind of infectious, because after a while I got into telling the story, and I got excited about bringing her home to show her. She was telling me about these websites where people post pictures of this kind of thing—messages from the beyond or whatever—and she said most of them are either really dumb looking, like you can’t see anything at all, or else they are so obviously edited by some troll just looking for attention. And I wound up kind of excited about sharing this weird experience with the world.
On the one hand . . . I don’t really want anything in my life to support the idea that I live in a haunted house. I just don’t need that. But on the other . . . well, it seems less scary and more fun when a whole bunch of other people are invested in the question too.
I just hope I can sell Logan on the idea.