Hey There Spider-Lady

Hey diary. Sorry I haven’t written in a while, but I’ve been busy with classes, Gwen and my personal projects. Let’s see how much longer I can put off getting a part-time job.

The good news! I met a superhero today!

The bad news: I almost got hit by a car. I am still mildly freaked out, but I’m OK though, really.

It was my fault, honestly. I was reading and walking again. I got really into that new article about the tula lizard genome and I didn’t notice that I’d walked into the crosswalk. I hear this car honking and I look up and it’s coming right at me and I’m doing that deer in the headlights shit and then – BAM! Spider-Woman swings in, sweeps me off my feet and carries me to safety!

She’s got me in her free arm as we’re swinging over the block and – and it’s almost like we’re flying, you know? Then she sets us down on the next street over and I’m just smacked speechless because I just had a brush with **** and I got saved by this majestic spider angel and my mouth’s not connected to my brain. And then – then she makes this truly, truly awful joke and it’s just so dumb that it lets all the air out, and I’m just laughing and thanking her and oh god she’s amazing.

We talk for a bit. She makes sure I’m OK and that my prosthetic didn’t get damaged. She asks how my classes are going. I ask if there’s anything I could do to thank her and she just says, “hey, no problem. You’re studying science, right? Just keep changing the world one step at a time, that’s all any of us can do.”

And then she jumps up and swings away with a song in her heart and the world’s most beautiful butt no, no, bad Kate, you’ve got a girlfriend now and you’re going to stay faithful. Besides, she’s a crazy cool superhero. She’s probably boinking Black Widow and half the Dora Milaje every other night.

Anyway, not fifteen seconds later and I get a call from Gwen. She heard what had happened from some guy on campus and wanted to check on me. God she’s great.

You know, all this near **** experience has made me realize I have been derelict in my girlfriend duties. What’s the name of that pizza place Gwen likes? Mikey’s? I should go get a pie for her and bring it to her next band practice.

Gonna try out some new stuff in the lab tonight. Seeing Spidey today got me inspired.

(More chemical equations in the margins, alongside a doodle of Spider-Woman punching Godzilla. There is also a post-it note bookmarking the page that says “MIKEY’S PHONE #: 555-555-5555.”)