The Bird-sitter

I was straightening up my desk the other day, and I came across this photo. A couple years ago, when I took a vacation for a week, my bosses daughter agreed to take care of Guri. She gave me this photo when I took Guri back, and I pinned it up in her (Guri's, that is) cage until she (again refering to Guri) died.

It did remarkably well, considering that all the other papers and books around my apartment have been destroyed. In fact, the landlord is having some men come in next week to fix a broken window. I'm a little frightened that they will notice the many places where the birds have litereally eaten the walls. In fact, as I am writing this, Awii and Klee are busy eating the wall right above the window to be fixed.

I always knew I will never get the deposit back ($670), but averaged out over 5-6 years, that only comes to less than $20 / month. That's a small price to pay for not having to keep the birds chained up in a tiny cage all day every day.

My only real worry is that the worker will tell the landlord before I am ready... Of course, it can't be much worse than the big hole I accidently sawed in the tatami mat when building the cage.