Thursday, August 10, 2006

stunkfille indeed! One month ago, my internet connection said sayonara. Two weeks ago, my online MA (Applied Linguistics) commenced. Therefore, all internet time i can get in the expensive internet cafes of my new home Toyota-city is taken up by dutiful study! Sorry, dearies! Quite a lot has happened since the 25th of May. Let's start from the beginning.

I auditioned for a movie and became a sniper (in the movie, mind you). Willierose got a bigger role.I don't even say anything. I get to shoot one Dane (the guy in the white shirt in the foreground) and then I get shot myself. Hollywood, here I come. It all ends in a massacre. It's a comedy about English teachers in Japan that get mixed up with some yakuza. Jolly good stuff.

Then I finished up in Akaike and moved to glorious Toyota, even further away from Nagoya. Yay! I now have a bedroom as well as a living room, though, which is just grand! I also have a balcony. This precious item I hed to wrestle from a host of pigeons, however, as they had set up camp firmly and safely behind the huge water boiler that leads a bubbly existence out there too. When I moved in, there were a momma and poppa pigeon plus 2 very small and very frightened youngsters that made a hell of a noise whenever regurgitated goodies where whithin beak reach.

3 weeks later those little critters with wings were ready for a fly off the balcony, so I ushered them to my neighbours balcony (sorry, Michael!!) and put up a net to keep those friggin super-poopers out of my homely haven. The amount of shit a whole family of pigeons can produce in one weekend is mind-boggling to say the least. Unfortunately, there weren't really any hooks or nooks to hang the miraculous net up with or in. I dodgily managed to loosely hang it as well as I could but I could smell trouble brewing on the horizon.

I had to run to work and on my return I found 2 birdies firmly entangled and very very scared twitching in my newly-created pigeon trap. I freed them after about 20 minutes of patient labour. Over night, I caught another two. A bit before that, I also found 2 eggs in their nest, which the hot boiler probably woulda hatched for them, threw one over the balcony (splat!) and cracked one accidently with my pigeon prodding stick (very handy tool, that). Over the weekend, I caught one of the little ones, which entangled itself as much as piegeonly possible and took a full 30 minutes to free. After that, they got the message though and the balcony was MINE, ALL MINE!! Huarghaahaaa.....

The apartment is old but functionable, small yet I have two rooms, smelly but strangely homey. All I need now is the net, which will probably take another month or so, so bear with me.

gg; 12:22 pm