Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 08, 2014

Now you’re talking, Luann! ;)

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Geeze…Already GoComics is breaking links! BTW, IJB, I like “‘The Logic In Logistics’”! ;)

Nancy knows, because she’s been there and done that. Because of the impetuousness of youth. She knew forewarning Luann would have little or no effect.

A little off-topic (however, Surely they have big spiders in Pitts!)…anyway, I’m sitting in my computer chair trying to get caught up in FB (Ha!), when my hub points out this Really Big spider about a foot and 1/2 away from my computer desk. I mean Really big…bigger than a silver dollar! Now, the hub hates spiders…me, not so much. But this one completely grossed me out! We have an environmentally approved bug spray, so I get it and its empty! And now this thing is running towards me! So, the hub tells me “Smash that spider”. And I say, "No, way…I don’t want to have spider goosh all over my new LLBean deck shoes!!! Well, it finally ran back under my computer desk where I sincerely (!) hope it is one dead spider! Of course, IS Katie was extremely interested in what was going on…she probably thought we were nuts! I don’t think Greg has ever drawn something about spiders, has he?! =-O

Do they teach pre-college students how to deal with the challenges of attending college today? Like time management for one. Or, how to check out the college campus. Or, how to get along with your room-mate, etc. That wouldn’t have helped me as my first class (and most all of my freshman and sophomore classes) was in the evening and the community colleges I attended did not have on-campus housing. However, I sure could have used an Intro class on how to research and write assigned papers! (I had a college prep class my Junior year in high school, but I could find nary a note about how to go about this!). I guess Luann has learned the hard way, but perhaps that is just the way she needed to learn about her new life as a college student! ;)

This spider was way too big to grab with a piece of toilet paper (it needed industrial paper towel which was in the garage not that close to where I’m at!). Yes, that spider Must be history by now as I don’t see it anymore (but I do keep looking under my computer desk and all of the wires and such)!!! ;)

Luann was probably busy putting the cart before the horse. Literally. The principal combines work study with their required community service and detention/disciplinary action. And it teaches problem solving skills, as they learn which way to put the horse back in front. Then the Principal gets a free ride around…..That, and a convenient way to keep PE in the school….– Oh, and also she was probably too busy "yelling at Quill! " for not being there enough in her mind….

Yes, that’s why most of them don’t bother me…I’m thinking it must have sneaked in when I either let IS Katie out, or when I called her back in. At any rate, that thing was on steroids!

Most of her “planning” could have been done in the roughly five hours she had between leaving the house; which I assume to have been around 7am as Frank had not yet left for work, and her noon class.Where was she? Off playing tonsil hockey with the Boy from Oz?

Oh, gee thanks!!! =-O

Guess I’d better not let it play in our local baseball team… Well, it won’t anyway, as I think I finally dispatched it to spider heaven… =-P

Just what I wanted to hear, Brdshtt! All I need is zillions of baby spiders…YUCK! =-O

Pacific Northwest… We’ve lived here 16 years and this is the first time I have seen such a big spider! Would have liked to have known what type of spider it was, but I think it is history by now (as she keeps checking under her computer desk!)… ;)

“I’d be looking under the chair…” ^I just think you want to see if people could ever really fly….

Thanks for the link! Looking at the pictures, I think this was a male “Giant House Spider”… Hopefully it was because it wouldn’t be toting eggs around! I really had to giggle about the “Mouse” spider! ;)

Well, the last I saw of it, it was moving kind of sideways by all of the computer wires under this desk. But, I do check the chair also, LOL! ;)

Oh, DOUBLE YUCK!!! ;P

Hahahah…but my bed’s upstairs…one wouldn’t creep up there, now would it?! =-O

Because if any up there are as big as this one was, I’d KNOW it for sure (and so would IS Katie!). Actually, my hub would know as he freaks out over the regular small garden-variety ones… He’ll probably be awake for quite awhile after This spider adventure! ;)

LOL!

Thanks for the article link! When I first saw it, I couldn’t believe it…that was how Big the spider I saw was! All I need is a Brown Recluse spider running around… =-P Well, This one won’t be running around anytime soon, if ever!!! =-O

Reminds me of what Jim said at the “Michael Scott Roast” on “the Office”. He said that Michael tried to use new words like “Spider Face”. As in “Someone just cut off their nose to ‘Spider’ Face”…

Hahahahahah!!! It had better stay in Portland, Oregon, too!!! ;P

OOOOOOOOhhhhhhh! Is that one of those Grade-B horror films? ;)

That spider is “blazing a lot of trails”, if it got as far as Portland! It probably just stopped for a drink, and got distracted by the outdoor art gallery….

They can feel their feelings to themselves! ;P

Oh, gosh…I can’t believe it is soooo late! I should be getting sleepy, but with all of the spider-stories tonight, I am wide-awake. However, IS Katie is sound asleep as she realized all of the “fun” was over! Soooo, ‘Nite all! ;)-——————————————————————————-“Went to hear Mrs Turner’s daughter…play on the harpsichon*; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man sick to hear her; yet was I forced to commend her highly."

This is the original spelling) (Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703)

Aw, Gee Whiz, Luann! What a Day!

I got MORE Bad News: Bernice was EATEN by That Ferret.

Meh!

Bring back Brad and what’s her face…

And what’s doing with the fire marshal and the arsonist!

“Most spiders won’t hurt you.”

Then there’s the Brown Recluse. I had a Co-Worker that Had an unfortunate encounter with one once….,

Most classes in school were found useless.

Ha! My son was one of the people who operated the engine room on a nuclear attack submarine, had two straight years of Navy classes on the subject, and is now going to college. He thinks it’s a joke and most folks can’t study or manage their time.

In AZ, a big, fast house spider, is a Wolf spider, which won’t hurt you, I think!And, they don’t like the light.

This has to be said: You do not pair a mauve couch with a purple wall. C’mon!

Bonus Luann today.

Leave out the words “college prep” and you’ve got it right.

All that nonsense and she only has ONE class on her first day?

I didn’t realize college prep was supposed to hold your hand. You would have thought that Luann would know about planning out her timing and where to park without having someone tell her that. Then again, this is the same girl who decided to go to Pitts CC because it would enable her to spend more time with Quill. Seems logic is not her strong suit.

Has college changed that much? I had homework my first day of every semester.

Looking for something like this?

All her high school courses were useless to Luann, who learned nothing at all. That’s why she’s in junior college (for maybe one semester). And this C.C. seems to have a campus the size of the University of Michigan. What’s up with that?

Have you seen CC lately? They are getting bigger all the time.

Addendum:THIS is where TJ should have been parking his food truck, where multitudes of hungry students hang out.

Actually, college prep classes are very valuable… to the companies offering them, to the companies offering tutoring for them, to the stockholders of those companies…

Jim Stafford wrote a song called, “Spiders and Snakes”. He does C/W songs with humor in them. The song comes from the album, “Not Just Another Pretty Foot”. He had a lit cigarette between his toes!

Yup. thought Luann would realize her wardrobe is not appropriate. Just go back to tee shirts and jeans, the same attire you wore in high school.

I just went on the spider web site, sorry. Just what I needed to know. A spider spits. Yuck! A faux black widow, wonderful. This is just two of the thirty three different spiders in Oregon. The one spider that you don’t have is the Garfield newspaperus , splatterus, flaterus, pancakeus, spider..

Where’s Willlllllbur?

Sorry. Not interested.

Good thing she’s still a dependent of Mom & Dad, so she doesn’t have to: 1) Find an apartment, 2) Find a job or other funding to pay costs, 3) Find a grocery store, 4) Find a laundromat, 5) Find a church community… like those of us who became independent at 18 did!

Sorry, Dave. But I couldn’t see it.

BS: Re spider picture. There’s one a lot like this terrorizing Kansas City! Must have come in on same space ship.

Yeah, the pic wouldn’t come up for me, either, and it usually does…

Good Ol’ Johnny Q!

Luann should move on-campus.

Eh, he could do that when she graduates college with a mountain of debt and no job prospects, and the “adult life” factor would be ramped up 100

Maybe, but we all know where her focus is now… and with her turning 18 very soon, I’m sure there will be a push to “assert herself,” and I’m sure there will be a lot of " “push back” from Frank & Nancy (i.e. “Not in our house”)! Had Lu been attending Moony, the problem wouldn’t exist, as she’d have her residential space away from the house, albeit she’d have to deal with her roommate’s “house rules,” and that of the Univ…

Not only that, but sometimes putting too much detail into the story at the beginning will drag it down, some, and limits what you can do creatively. Once you get in your mind where you want it to go, or when you can tell what the audience would be most moved by, then you can fill in those details later on…

Spiders are as spiders do…

This is my last post today about the spider incident (yes, I know, I can hear the “hoorays” from all the way up here!) The hub and I determined that nasty spider was a Giant House Spider of the male persuasion…not a Brown Recluse as I originally thought… ;)

I took my last class in the Fall of 2002…always had lots of homework right from the start! =-O

YUCKKKKKK! =-O

My wife once found a wolf spider on the kitchen counter. Just then, it jumped about half a foot, landing on a house fly that had alighted and paused for a second, killing it instantly. She decided to let the spider be.