My Roommate Experience

About a month ago, I've found out that I've got a roommate - a little mouse. At first, I've started mentioning a little noise coming from the kitchen. When I went there, it disappeared. When I left the kitchen, it reappeared again. Finally I saw the raison d'être of the unusual sound running at a speed of light from under the stove toward my sofa. It was so fast, that it even slipped and slid a bit on its side on the smooth kitchen floor like a motorcycle on the track, but unlike the motorcycle, it recovered and booted even faster. After looking at its size and (khmm..) cuteness, I’ve decided to leave the issue as is and don’t bother about the mousetrap.

I’ve told a story to friends at work and outside and we’ve had a good laugh about it. With guys at work we’ve made up a few ways to catch the mouse without hurting it. I was going to blast the music at maximum one day and put a piece (lomtik) of cheese on the ground so that a mouse would eat it, and while it’s being distracted by both, the music and gourmet food, I would be able to catch it by covering it up with a cup. That’s all jokes though, of course.

Now, a month after, as I was checking my kitchen counters, I’ve found out that one my oatmeal boxes had a hole in it. By looking at “traces” of little black animal aftereffects, I concluded that my roommate was definitely there. The amounts of aftereffects suggested that it was there more than once.

Also, while transferring some files from my cell phone, I saw a few groves from little teeth on the USB cable. “In panic”, I’ve rushed down to the pile of cables and boxes where I keep all my computer goodies and started checking rigorously whether anything else was “probed”. Luckily enough, for now, nothing else suited its taste and at least looked untouched.

That’s it! This relationship is over, little tail! I am reporting you to the superintendent. Your destiny is in his hands now.

PS

An interesting conclusion can be made from this story. Out of all the food that I store in the counter (instant rice, noodles, even regular rice), the one mouse has chosen was the healthy oatmeal. Hmm, makes you think what’s better for you, the bleached instant rice, dehydrated noodles or the oatmeal that I hate so much. Maybe it’s time to think once again about it and cook the right food next time – the food chosen by nature, by a mouse – which cannot be tricked by flashy labels, especially "instant" that "saves" us so much time.

Views of Great Britain and US on conflict in Iraq

Gordon Brown, the future prime minister of Great Britain insists on non-military resolution of Iran's conflict. He thinks that the key to solving the problem is the rebuilding of economics of the country. Poverty and lack of jobs is the main reason that pushes the coutry to become dangerous on world's scene.

On the other hand, USA does not deny the fact of military intervention. On May 23rd, 2007, 9 US mility ships have entered Persian Golf for "military training" purposes. Washington's main point here is that under the peaceful development of nuclear power plant, Iran is pushing the development of the nuclear program [source: http://top.rbc.ru/politics/27/05/2007/104117.shtml].

In the meanwhile, Iran is working on finishing its first nuclear station, which is being built by Russian experts at Bushehr. The plant's launch date is scheduled for March 2008 [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/1b73ff45-8007-47b5-83a2-7a1f2232d520.html].