Spider incident, Tour de Chambre, and Copenhagen heat wave

The dreaded moment has arrived. Along with allergies spring has finally brought me my first spider (not itsy bitsy by any means). I knew this was coming, and not having 5 boys around to have kill spiders, I knew that I would have to suck it up and deal with it myself. So I've been psyching myself up, getting into the "you can do this" frame of mind, it's just a spider and your shoe is much bigger than it. When I discovered a web and spider legs outside my window I wasn't sure if it was just a dead one left from the season before or my first encounter. The rest of the story goes a little like this:

-I think there is a big spider on my shutter (calm, cool, collected, I can handle this mode)
-Move the shutter, spider drops into sight and starts crawling around
-@!#!$!%@#!@# and lots of screaming

I spazed so much that I almost gave my friend a heart attack and scared him from going anywhere near it much less killing it (oops).

Said spider is still at large.

Last night my floor had a tour de chambre (round robin of bed rooms so to speak). 8 of us participated and for each room you had to come up with a theme, decorate, dress up, come up with a drink (not the Shirley Temple kind) and a game to play. Lacking any sort of creative bone, cell, and/or gene in my body I came up with a flower theme (original I know), which gave me a good excuse to buy myself flowers :) and play pin the bumble bee on the flower. Needless to say every other theme was more creative than mine, including a girl who transformed her room into a disco, Saturday Night Fever style. One of the games for the Communist Russia themed room was throwing these Danish chocolate marshmallow ball things (surprisingly good) at the face of G.W. Bush. It was kind of funny because all of my Danish roommates were looking at me waiting for me to be offended. Too bad I'm such a poor shot; my throws went over the target, into the wall off to the side of the target, and onto the floor a foot in front of the target...and I can't even blame that on being intoxicated because it was the first game of the night.
In other great news the weather here hit 64 and sunny on Thursday! I could actually take off my coat! It was short lived though because now it's back in the 50's and raining. Don't be alarmed if you confuse me with an albino when I come back.

Thursday I am off to Milan for 4 days of warm weather and carbo-loading!

Much Love