yesterday morning as i was leaving the apartment, amaya, my cat, was a bit too interested in the goings-on under the sink. she was watching something.

that just can't be good....

later that night when i arrived home she showed me her dead captive, strewn out in various body parts in the middle of the floor.

i had mice once before, in the fall of 2002, and that prompted me to get a cat in the first place. and she was great at taking care of the problem. and then i got the landlord convinced to come in and board up some holes and we've never had a problem with mice since.

until yesterday.
so this evening, she's again intensely watching underneat the sink. and i'm watching her. and i see a mouse try to run out from under the sink and amaya attacks and paws it but it runs back under the sink. amaya is waiting, anticpating, watching again.

i'm freaking.
so now i've just spent the last hour sawing through a long piece of wood (yes i have a saw and yes i have wood... no comments please on that one) which is incredibly difficult to do with a very cheap saw and nothing to really hold the wood in place. but i manage and put the long piece of wood in the hole (again, no comments) but it's not really very secure because i realize it's not really the sink, but it's the floor that's not even and creating the hole. and the wood isn't solving the problem that well. but maybe, just maybe, it will work for a while til i get the landlord to do something again.

the only real problem i have right now is that i scared my cat away with all my noise and sawing and holefilling, and so my savior and security is too scared right now to be in the midst of the battle because of all my noise. i hope she'll get back to her duty soon because i need her in there defending me. i support my troops!