Snakes.

Ugh. UGH. Yuck yuck BLEURGH. *shudders*

I think I've worked it out of my system now. See, today we were studying phobias and systematic desensitization. Yay, whoopee and all. Except our teacher gets the bright idea to put on a video featuring this woman overcoming her phobia of snakes. Focusing on the reptile with great care and attention to detail.

Now, I'm not rabidly phobic over *images* of snakes, which is why I didn't run out SCREAMING AND FLAILING AND FREAKING THE HELL OUT. But it was...oh, god, it was interesting.

Still feeling a little queasy and shivery and just breathing funny.

Gods, you think the guy might ASK if anyone has a problem with SNAKES considering we're studying PHOBIAS AND ALL before showing such footage. Why couldn't he have shown a video about CLOWNS? The girl in my group, who took on the role of patient to my therapist [HA! AHAHA!], is scared to death of clowns.

Sheppard is supposedly scared of clowns. I wonder what it is about clowns? Unless he was yanking that alien Wraith worshiper chick's chain and was having fun at her expense. Hmm.