Teacher workday today. All alone in my classroom. I see movement, turn to look: there is a spider, on my desk, the sun falling brightly on it, and I saw its eyes. It was looking at me. The Universe shifted, I dumped binder clips out of their glass container and trapped the spider rather than kill it. No scream. Then I went to find someone to help, we slid paper under the glass container and released the spider outside. Eye contact makes me unable to kill. Have to train as a sniper. Splendid.