Well, I was debating what to write about for the first post, and after much deliberation, I decided to write about Alphonso.
Alphonso is a very close friend to both my roommate and I. The window in our room has 3 tall sections, and the outer two have screens so that we can open them and enjoy fresh air. In the bottom left corner of the middle window pane is where Alphonso lives. He is a brown spider a little less than an inch long. I named the spider on our window Alphonso because, well, I'm weird like that. He has a nice little web house in my side of the window, and his thin web porch extends across our middle window pane. I noticed Alphonso the day I arrived. I leaned over my desk and gently tapped on the window to see if he was friendly. Being the timid type, he quickly scurried to his corner with his head facing the wall. Eventually we became close friends, and he has learned to put up with my incessant tapping. In any case, he makes a good listener (even if I don't talk to him all that much). *laughs* and don't worry, a little brown spider is not the only friend I've made here! More to follow soon...