Mission: شکار / Location: اتاق مريم / Time: 5:05 a.m / Time Zone: GMT+1

NOTE: I catch most of the insects and put them out on our balcony, I don't like killing them and I get bad conscience when I do but how high are my chances to catch a spider or those fast running beetles??

[ I was sitting peacefully working at my desk. Very well concentrated because of the good sleep I had. Five fingers away from my left eye came down a big spider with long striped golden legs.]

5:05 Saw the spider coming down, looked at it in shock thinking,"How did it get in! I never leave my window open unless I'm looking at it!"- I'm very severe about not having any insects entering the room-.

5:06 - 5:25 Stood away as if I was dried, thinking of all the ways I could get rid of it:

1. I could catch it and keep it as a pet.

(Two days ago I had gone to the pet shop that I take a look at everytime I'm out, it's been a month that I've thougt about buying a snake or a spider as a pet, The prices were from 200 to 450 CHF . I asked the guy about taking them from one country to other - switzerland to Iran-, he said getting a permission for snakes is very difficult but spiders are easier.)

2. I could use one of these insect killer sprays -not a good option, I didn't know what it would do to my books and papers and plus all, they're toxic-.

3. Catch it and throw it out of the window.

4. Get out of the room, leave everything, lock the door, cover the cracks and never enter the room again.
In the meantime the spider had gone up his silk, back to the top shelf in the corner of my sketch book, scared of my move and waiting there and seemed to be planning to stay there as long as...i don't know...till he feels safe to move again!!! How does he feel that?

5:26 Decision made

5:27 Maryam:" Mamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan"

(Mom's my hero, she catches insects in a blink of an eye...very impressive from my view)

روزت مبارک

5:28 Illuminating some facts for my mom as if she misses and the spiderman crawls into my books or under the shelves I would abandon the room- I thought one day in year 5050 they would open my room and find mutated spiders and big spiderwebs all around the room, they looked like the mechanical creatures in the machine world in 'The Matrix'.

"Damn TV It ruined my imagination and my ability to umm, well uh...you know."

-Bartholomew J.Simpson

(why did i think that i would be dead by 5050 but the spider in my room would be alive and would have reproduced!!) -

5:28 Mom gettting ready to catch it and aiming for the poor creature.

5:29 Maryam: "Mission impossible"

5:29 [few seconds later] Mom: "Mission accomplished"

بخاطر مسائل امنیتی نمی توان جزئیات عملیات را افشا کرد

5:30-5:40 Still standing there trying to digest what just happened. Examining my shelves to make sure there's no more of those surprises.
[ I have always took spiders as intellingent creatures and this time too, the spider had a very witty reaction to my withdrawal.]

When the battle is over and the ground is cooled, well, it's then that you see the opposing General's valor.

5:45 back to work

[ what was the spider thinking!! Where did he think he's going? Maybe he wanted to come on to my page and read Naser Khosoro's poem!! ]

• The Lesson Was : Buy a pet that you wouldn't mind having it out of the cage - I think snakes are better options-

PS. I already have a pair of extremly intelligent parrots for 5 years now,

I had two tadpoles (I'll be writing a post about them with all their pics and a resumé of their journal)
Two years that I have a Gold fish, I call her My Moby Dick . I can't live without her.
and there's a spider web with it's spider in my window frame- I wash there a lot but I do my best not to hurt the web- and I get to observe everything with it like how the spider knits it and how the insects get stuck and how the spider runs, wraps it and...eats it...I actually filmed it once -I film a lot of things, sort of Everything and Everywhere- I also love observing different fruits rot, I take continuous pictures of them and view it in a slide show, It's fantastic. I also had two rabbits and a lot of JooJe -They all died-

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19 hours and 35 minutes later

Mission: Solo / Location: Hallway / Time: 1:20 a.m / Time Zone: GMT+1

Caught a beetle and tried getting rid of it myself, poor try, I didn't hit it hard enough so it was still alive when his guts where coming out, look at it's colour...turquoise...wow...

so anyway I used the insect killer spray at the end.

• Lesson: Hit hard or don't hit at all.

PS. The thing is that I don't scream when I see insects, if I did, my parents wouldv'n had sent me to a psychiatrist.