  Today at lunch I found an ENORMOUS, black, hairy spider in my little oh-so Japanese toilet room. I am still a bit shaky from it. Animals I can handle; large insects I am less okay with. At least I have yet to see a mukade (large centipede type things, incredibly ugly, that can get up to about 10cm, apparently). Ahhhhh! The typhoon is supposed to hit tomorrow. So much for a day outside to discover my village... 
