Having recently met The Jade Monkey of Silence I was quick to take up the offer of an invitation to stay with some friends who are currently having a visit from The Incontinent Dog of Friendship. Like the Bluebird of Happiness, The Chicken of Depression and the Jade Monkey yang tersebut,*
The Incontinent Dog is one of those creatures that frequently come and disturb our tranquil lives but rarely do they make themselves manifest, so the chance to actually see the IDOF was something I could not miss. I'll report back after this weekend. I have no idea what form the dog has taken but it usually shows itself as large, elderly black dog, rather like a labrador. The function of this animal in the mythological pantheon is to test our capacity for friendship. Someone claiming to be an old and trusted friend turns up on your doorstep and asks you to look after the dog for several days, using some some pretext or other:
Has to fly to Australia suddenly to nurse sick mother. No one else to to turn to to look after dog.
Could not bear to put animal in kennels. Knows it is an imposition to ask an old friend but.... lovely dog, but there is one small problem...
That sort of thing.
By the way if any of my many readers from all over the world have a dog incontinence problem I would recommend the stylish dog pants that I came across while doing some reeesearch into the topic. Just click on the above image.
My interview was a disaster. I tried to keep to the subject of Adult Education - the post was for an adult Education Tutor - but the Panel kept coming back to the topic of shoes and making thinly veiled references to my footware with bare concealed sniggers 'n sneers. To use a well worn phrase - I have never been so humiliated in my life! I returned home and immediately hit the rum bottle and lost myself for the better part of two days in Yosio Ishii's delightful Hosi Saga Ringoen, find the star puzzles. You can find them here is you are curious. The following day late in the afternoon as the worst of my hangover was receding I received a phone call to say I had gone through to the second stage and was invited to give a demonstration lesson in two weeks time. I suspect that the interviewers had received a visit from the Subtle Gerbil of Remorse the previous night. Unless. it is a plan for a mass shoe humiliation. In this world of foxes you can't dismiss the possibility but I am ready for that. I was not entirely truthful when I said I had no shoes, I do have a pair of respectable shoes but I had left them at my Brother's some fifty miles away and I think a pair of shoes fifty miles away is pretty much the same as having no shoes at all. Anyway... I will be visiting my Brother again soon and will get back my good shoes and once again walk with confidence onto the stage of life.
* When I was younger I was always impressed and irritated by writers who dropped phrases in Greek and Latin and foreign languages without any translation.
It is a kind of revenge to do it in Indonesian.
The Incontinent Dog is one of those creatures that frequently come and disturb our tranquil lives but rarely do they make themselves manifest, so the chance to actually see the IDOF was something I could not miss. I'll report back after this weekend. I have no idea what form the dog has taken but it usually shows itself as large, elderly black dog, rather like a labrador. The function of this animal in the mythological pantheon is to test our capacity for friendship. Someone claiming to be an old and trusted friend turns up on your doorstep and asks you to look after the dog for several days, using some some pretext or other:
Has to fly to Australia suddenly to nurse sick mother. No one else to to turn to to look after dog.
Could not bear to put animal in kennels. Knows it is an imposition to ask an old friend but.... lovely dog, but there is one small problem...
That sort of thing.
By the way if any of my many readers from all over the world have a dog incontinence problem I would recommend the stylish dog pants that I came across while doing some reeesearch into the topic. Just click on the above image.
My interview was a disaster. I tried to keep to the subject of Adult Education - the post was for an adult Education Tutor - but the Panel kept coming back to the topic of shoes and making thinly veiled references to my footware with bare concealed sniggers 'n sneers. To use a well worn phrase - I have never been so humiliated in my life! I returned home and immediately hit the rum bottle and lost myself for the better part of two days in Yosio Ishii's delightful Hosi Saga Ringoen, find the star puzzles. You can find them here is you are curious. The following day late in the afternoon as the worst of my hangover was receding I received a phone call to say I had gone through to the second stage and was invited to give a demonstration lesson in two weeks time. I suspect that the interviewers had received a visit from the Subtle Gerbil of Remorse the previous night. Unless. it is a plan for a mass shoe humiliation. In this world of foxes you can't dismiss the possibility but I am ready for that. I was not entirely truthful when I said I had no shoes, I do have a pair of respectable shoes but I had left them at my Brother's some fifty miles away and I think a pair of shoes fifty miles away is pretty much the same as having no shoes at all. Anyway... I will be visiting my Brother again soon and will get back my good shoes and once again walk with confidence onto the stage of life.
* When I was younger I was always impressed and irritated by writers who dropped phrases in Greek and Latin and foreign languages without any translation.
It is a kind of revenge to do it in Indonesian.
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