Spiderweb Woman

Strangest thing found today: little caterpillar curled up in the bottom of my laundry basket
Number of days since my last haircut: 134
In the Attic: What is it like to discover you're a superhero?

Every morning, I drive 30 minutes to get to school. Yesterday, during my drive, I counted 73 spiderwebs! I'm certain I actually saw more, because I had seen quite a few by the time I said to myself, "Wow, I'd better keep count of the massive number of spider webs I'm seeing." I guess what makes that number so impressive is than on a normal day, I never see any spiderwebs! But yesterday, I saw spiderwebs absolutely everywhere. Most of them were suspended high up above the road, between the black power lines. Others were stretched between a tree limb and a road sign, and I found some neatly clinging between the slats of wooden fences. It was like I couldn't not see them everywhere I looked!

I know that there is probably a reasonable, scientific explanation as to why I saw so many spiderwebs this particular morning. It probably had something to do with a formula including the morning dew that had settled with the bright early morning sunshine. But I preferred to think of it as some sort of spiderweb sensing x-ray vision that allowed me (and only me) to see all of these spiderwebs as I sped past. "Pow! There's one in a tree! Pow! There's one by the mailbox!" I would think to myself.

I am Spiderweb Woman, the Great Seer of Spider Silk.

Surely, I can use this super power, this gift, to save and improve the suffering of mankind in some way. But alas, today, while I drove to school, I was saddened to notice than my powers were gone. Either the spiders have all packed up and moved on or my gift has expired. I guess it's better this way, because I never did work out how this super power was going to save the world.

And besides, what would I wear?