I got lucky yet again!! :D

Except for the ones that drop onto my head, I guess I have a pretty good eye for worms and bugs. After all, I spotted this one!

This is what happened to me yesterday..
Sometime during the day, a pilloo (worm) must have jumped onto my hair from some tree or something.
Last night, I was sitting in bed, reading a book and suddenly the worm slid down my hair and onto my shoulder. I thought it must be a big insect and just flicked it. And then I realised it was a worm and that too, had landed on its back on the ground and it was just so yuck!
But that didn't kill my laziness. I finished eating the chocolate I was eating, finished reading the chapter I was reading and only then did I get up to throw that thing outta my room :D

I've had a long, tiring (make that stupidly tiring), pathetic and painful day.
Started with me waking up early to study IC!! And that wasn't the painful part.

Chose this t-shirt which had been drying on the line for the last two days, and after putting it on, realised it was full of ants! Took it off, shook it just once and the whole bathroom floor was full of ants!
Apparently they had tight-rope walked over the clothesline, and gathered in my t-shirt for their round-table conference 2009 chapter or some goddamn reason I don't even wanna understand!

Anyways, so that sent me back into the shower for the second time (two hours before the IC end-semester exam, trust me that is not the best way to pass time!). I was furious at the ants!!
And I saw for the first time in my life what ant-bites really look like. And learnt that they hurt a lot more than mosquito bites :(

Why is it then, that I don't think once before killing a mosquito, and often end up going out of my way to save ants from dying!!

For the rest of the day, I kept getting the feeling of ants crawling up my neck or arms! The IC test was pathetic, worse than I had expected it to be.

After that, I realised my towel was full of ants.
And I was painfully aware for the rest of the day of the ants strolling around my table, but like I said, I have no idea why I am so kind to them, I just let them be.

Dinner time, there was just one ant going in circles around my plate, but it made me furious.

Finally, at the end of the day, I found a book that seemed interesting and settled down in bed with it and realised my bed was full of ants now! That did it. That was 'the' limit.

I moved my table, moved my bed, took a broom and got rid of my 18-month collection of dust, spider webs, dead insects and long-lost and forgotten items from far under my bed. And then took that chalk thing you get to keep ants at bay, and put it everywhere I have ever seen an ant stroll in my part of the room.

Then I remembered the clothesline, and went to check out its end. And there, at the end, was a whole bunch of ants, waiting for some auspicious moment to start their trek I suppose!
Yes, I put chalk along the line. Right now, all I care about is an ant-free zone.
Finally I was done with the de-antification, and sat down on my bed.

And then I realised I had something in my mouth.
It was an ant!!!

I don't think I can finish a semester without posting any of my wildlife photography ;)
So here's them...

Beautiful to the point of being majestic

Here is the latest batch of six-legged visitors in my room...

This one with it's shining (seems more like varnished!!) belly looks kinda cute to me...

Unfortunately we found this one dead on my roomie's table :(

And this one made me late for class this morning; for I wasted nearly ten minutes, waiting for it to stop flying around!!

The few spells of rain last week have brought all the insect population around here back into action. A new kind visits my room every evening now-a-days.
Two days back was this bug with horns!! I'll show you what it looks like another day but for now, check out this one:

this beautiful (rather majestic!!) bronze shelled bug; paid a visit to my room last night from, I'm ready to believe, the land of the Pharaohs!! ;)

I know I know...the bug doesn't look all that beautiful in the pic but I swear it was a real beauty!!!

Here it is!

It's our first sessionals this week and it makes me so gloomy! First sit and study and then, find you've ruined all your exams and your GPA is plunging down at the speed of light!
What happens everytime exams come around is I suddenly begin to notice all the wildlife around me! Like just now I spotted two baby peacocks playing outside my window. And the moment I get my cam out, they're gone!
So no pictures for you guys to see. But, last semester, I did manage to capture some of it (the wildlife) so I'm gonna put that up, right here, for all of you to see.

The first bunch is this family of mongooses that I think lives right across from my window!



Next is this slug I photographed in our bathroom the morning of my last exam last semester I think, when I really should have been studying but was so bored!!