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oh, how psyched am i that i took tomorrow and friday off??? i didn't have any meetings on either day, so i figured i should take advantage and make the holiday weekend extra-long. one of the days (probably friday) is going to be a work-ish day, cleaning the house and painting my workroom and such. but tomorrow is wide open, and the possibilities are endless -- should i spend the day wandering around new hope? check out main street in manayunk, which i haven't been to in about a decade? summer's ending and the weather's going to be great, and i want to get out and about!

i put another item up on ebay: my autographed copy of "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". 2 days, and so far i only have 1 watcher and no bids. i thought people would eat it up, but nothing. *sigh*.

i'm amazed at how sensitive my blood sugar is -- yesterday a co-worker had a bowl of chocolates at his desk, and i had 4 of them over the course of the day... these weren't the shortened halloween-sized chocolates, they were even smaller (like, the little milky way ones were about 1 inch square)... this morning, i am ravenously hungry, which i haven't felt since i cut out sugar a few months ago. i guess i've learned my lesson, chocolate = blood sugar swings = tummy wanting food! eek!

you know what? it was a fitting way for him to go.

heard about this on the news this morning:

A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.

Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.

Neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the stink.

And horrified officers were met by a nightmare scene.

A police spokesman said: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa.

“Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.

“There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles.

“Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”

Loner Voegel, 30, never invited people back to his “jungle” home, a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund.

Police described it as a cross between a botanical garden and the butterfly breeding ground in the serial killer movie The Silence Of The Lambs.

One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow’s in a corner of the ceiling.

Voegel also had a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America.

Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures “that should never be allowed in a private home”.

She said: “He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.”

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.

The heating elements on two tanks containing spiders and their termite snacks had exploded and dislodged the metal tops allowing them to escape.

Voegel is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days.

A post-mortem will be carried out in the next few days. But authorities believe Bettina alone was responsible for Voegel’s death.