10:00 Lois og
jeg går hen ind i landsbyen og køber et par ting i nærbutikken. På vej smutter
vi ind i det lokale postkontor og afsender et par pakker til vores børnebørn i
Danmark og Australien. Vi kommer hjem og slapper af med en kop kaffe.
Vi snakker
lidt om onion.coms seneste nyheder angående Disneys planer om en ny trilogi af
Star Wars-film, der skal udkomme i næste årti, samt en live-action serie, der
skal debutere i den nærmeste fremtid.
Nyhedskilden
beder Lois og mig personligt om vores meninger, ikke noget, der sker hver dag –
ingen tvivl om det! Spændende! Vi føler os en lille smule hædret, og diskuterer
argumenterne på begge sider, uden at komme til en fast konklusion.
Heldigvis har
et repræsentativt udvalg af nyhedskildens læsere bidraget med en vifte
interessante synspunkter, eksempelvis (1) ”den 10., 11., og 12. episoder i en 40-årig
franchise er altid de bedste” (Sean Feiman, terapi-dukkefører), (2) ”min
største håb om Star Wars har altid været at se, hvordan franchisen ville se ud,
hvis den blev begrænset indenfor et tv-budget” (Bob Hutchison, bowling
historiker), og ”Det vil være vildt spændende at se en frisk ny rollebesætning
af figurer følge samme plotmønstre som de andre” (Kathryn Kemp, ”gaffing”
instruktør).
Vi beslutter,
vi hælder til det 3. og sidste synspunkt, som Kathryn Kemp udtrykker. Jeg
genkender hendes ansigt, men jeg er ikke helt sikker på jeg husker hendes navn.
Jeg mistænker i hvert fald, at vi har set hendes udtalelser før i Onion News,
og vi kan godt lide hendes stil. Hun synes at skifte jobs hyppigt, og ofte
påtager sig det slags arbejde, der kræver meget faglært arbejdskraft, men det
ser ud til, at hun kan mestre dem meget hurtigt – hun er bestemt alsidig, ingen
tvivl om det!
Onion-læseren Kathryn
Kemp: vi kan godt lide hendes stil !
Hun erklærer
sig som gaffing-instruktør. Vi er ikke helt sikre på, præcis hvad hendes
undervisningsfag består af, men vi mistænker, at hun underviser folk at bruge
gaffer-tape ordenligt, traditionelt betragtet som en meget specialiseret
færdighed. Lois og jeg vil gerne blive mere dygtige til at bruge gaffer-tape.
Vi har for vane at afsende bunkevis af pakker til vores børnebørn i Danmark og
Australien, men vi er ikke helt sikre på, om vi kunne hente nogle nyttige tips fra
en eller anden arbejdende i samme specialitet som Kathryn. Vi må gøre lidt
forskning på nettet. Vi får ses.
Vi beslutter
at sende vores mening ind til nyhedskilden, i form af en anmodning om bedre
undervisning i brugen af gaffer-tape, i sær til fordel for ældre par, der har
børnebørn i udlandet.
12:30 Vi
spiser frokost og bagefter går jeg i seng for at tage mig en gigantisk eftermiddagslur.
Jeg står op kl 16.
Jeg læser
endnu 5 sider af min danske roman, ”Klinkevals” af Jane Aamund. Romanens helt,
Juliane, en 30-og-nogle enke og mor til to teenagebørn, har fundet en unge
(21-årig) toyboy, Otto. Hun har sex med ham hver aften, men hidtil har hun ikke
sagt noget om deres forhold til sine børn eller til sin søstre. Hun er bange
for, hendes teenagebørn vil misbillige affæren, i sær hendes 14-årige søn,
Johan, som hun er helt sikker på, ikke vil være glad for, at have en ny
stedfar, der kun er 7 år ældre, end sig selv. Og Juliane er også bange for, at
hendes 2 søstre vil lave sjov med hende på grund af alderforskellen.
Desværre
finder Juliane ud af, at der for nylig sladres om hende på gaden. Det er den
slags gade, hvor alle ved alt om hinandens liv. Man siger at hun har en
”kæreste”, og Johan, Julianes 14-årige søn er allerede pissesur på hende.
Så derfor
beslutter hun at præsentere Otto for sine børn og sine søstre. Yikes! Jeg ser
problemer forude – det har jeg ikke nogen tvivl om !!!!!
Klinkevals
– filmen fra 1999, stjernespækket Mette Lisby
18:00 Vi
spiser aftensmad, og forbereder os på Minx’ store dag i morgen: en mulig
operation hos den lokale dyrelægeklinik. Minx er katten, vores datter Alison
efterlod hos os, da hendes familie flyttede til Danmark i oktober 2012.
Dyrlægen
undersøgte Minx’ mund i fredags og sagde, at én tand var blevet brudt og en
anden var revnet og der var også betændelse på den ene side. Hun undersøgte Minx
også mere generelt og opdagede, at hendes hjerte viste tegn på sygdom, hvilket kunne
diagnosticeres fra lydene, hendes lille hjerte gjorde. Dette ville gøre anvendelsen
af en bedøvelsen mere problematisk – med øgede muligheder for hjerteanfald
eller slagtilfælde. Dyrelægen sagde, hun ville gerne lave blodprøver for at bekræfte
dette, og lave også en præanaestetisk ekkokardiografi, hvis det blev besluttet
at gå videre med operationen på tænderne.
Stakkels Minx
!!!! Det værste er, at Lois og jeg ikke må fodre hende efter kl 20 i aften.
19:00 Vi
beslutter kl 19 at lukke Minx ind i bryggerset
i en time, og efterlade bunkevis af kattemad i hendes madskåle. Men
selvfølgelig afviser hun at spise noget, hvilket er helt typisk. Hun spiser
aldrig, når vi vil have hende til at gøre det!
et føroperations-studie: Minx, velkroet til Lois’s nederdel som sædvanligt.
I
morgen er Minx’ store dag på dyrlægeklinikken
20:00 Vi
tænder for fjernsynet og ser en interessant dokumentarfilm, der handler om Odysseen,
det berømte græske digt. Programmets vært er den charmerende engelske digter,
Simon Armitage.
Odysseen er historien om Odysseus' ti-årige hjemrejse fra Troja til Ithaka efter den trojanske krig. Undervejs møder han utallige farer og fristelser og
mister hele sin besætning, mens hans kone Penelope ombejles derhjemme.
Det er
interessant at se Armitage rejse fra ø til ø i det smukke Ægæiske hav, men det
er lidt af en skam, at han ved næsten intet om de historiske omstændigheder af
perioden, da digtet begyndte at blive sammenfattet. Han ser på Odysseen bare ud
fra en digterens synspunkt. Det er typisk af BBC-kanalen at invitere en
amatøragtig vært til at fremstille sådan en dokumentarfilm, snarere end en
akademisk autoritet – de synes, at dette gør programmets emne mere tilgængeligt
fra den gennemsnitlige tv-seerens synspunkt. Sikke et vanvid!!!!!
”Lad os finde en
tv-vært, der ikke ved noget om emnet!” ”God idé, det der vil ikke intimidere
tvseerne!” (muligt uddrag fra en BBC scriptkonference).
Armitage tror,
at Homer var en rigtige liv digter – måske forestiller han sig, at Homer
arbejdede på digtet i sit kabinet, rygende en pibe, omgivet af bogreoler, ligesom
Philip Larkin for eksempel.
Han forstiller sig måske Homer som skabende Odysseus’ personlighed og findende på
eventyr, som hans helt kunne blive involveret i. Armitage synes ikke at vide,
at Odysseen faktisk bare var en sammenfatning af ældre anonyme fortællinger,
der var gået fra mund til mund, en lille smule som trøske.
Armitage synes ikke at vide, at Odysseen faktisk bare var
en
sammenfatning af ældre anonyme fortællinger,
der
var gået fra mund til mund, en lille smule som trøske
Homer,
som Armitage måske forestiller sig ham – måske ligesom den britiske
digter, Philip
Larkin, arbejdende
på et digt i sit kabinet, omgivet af bogreoler.
Du godeste,
sikke et vanvid!!!!
22:00 Vi går i
seng – zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
English
translation
10:00 Lois and I go into the village and buy a few things
in the convenience store. On our way we swing by the local post office and send
a couple of packages to our grandchildren in Denmark and Australia. We come
home and relax with a cup of coffee.
We talk a little about onion.com's latest news about
Disney's plans for a new trilogy of Star Wars movie to be released in the next
decade, as well as a live-action series to be debuted in the near future.
The news source is asking Lois and me personally for our
opinions, not something that happens every day, let's face it! Exciting!
We feel a little bit honored, and discuss the arguments on both sides without
reaching a firm conclusion.
Fortunately, a representative selection of the news
source’s readers have weighed in with a range of interesting comments, such as
(1) "10th, 11th and 12th episodes in a 40-year franchise are always the
best" (Sean Feiman, Therapy Puppeteer) , (2) "My biggest hope for
Star Wars has always been to see how the franchise would look if it was
restricted within a television budget" (Bob Hutchison, bowling historian)
and "It will be exciting to see a fresh new cast of characters following the
exact same plot trajectory as the others " (Kathryn Kemp," gaffing
instructor).
We decide that we lean towards the third and last point
of view, which Kathryn Kemp expresses. I recognize her face, but I'm not sure I
remember her name. I suspect, at least, that we have seen her opinions before on Onion News, and we like her style. She seems to change jobs frequently, and
often takes on the kind of work that requires highly skilled labor, but it
seems she can master everything very quickly - she is certainly versatile, no
doubt about that!
She identifies herself as a gaffing instructor. We are
not quite sure exactly what her teaching focus consists of, but we suspect she
instructs people in the proper use of gaffer tape, traditionally considered a
highly specialized skill. Lois and I would like to be more adept at using
gaffer tape. We are always sending bundles of packages to our grandchildren in
Denmark and Australia, but we are not sure if we might not get some useful tips
from someone working in the same specialty as Kathryn. We must do a little
research on the web – we’ll have to see.
Onion reader Kathryn Kemp – we like her style!
We decide to send our opinion in to the Onion news source, in
the form of a plea for better education in the use of gaffer tape,
especially for older couples who have grandchildren abroad.
12:30 We have lunch and afterwards I go to bed and take a
gigantic afternoon nap. I get up at 4pm.
I read 5 more pages of my Danish novel,
"Klinkevals" by Jane Aamund. The novel's heroine, Juliane, a
30-something widow and mother to two teenage children, has found a young
21-year-old toyboy, Otto. She has sex with him every evening, but so far she
has not said anything about their relationship to her children or to her
sisters. She is afraid that her teenage children will disapprove of the affair,
especially her 14-year-old son, Johan, who she is sure will not be happy to
have a new stepfather who is only 7 years older than himself. And Juliane is
also afraid that her 2 sisters will make fun of her because of the age
difference.
Unfortunately, Juliane finds out that she has recently
been the subject of gossip on the street. It's that kind of street where everyone knows
everything about each other's lives. It is being said that she has a
"boyfriend", and Johan, Juliane's 14-year-old son is already quite pissed
off with her.
So she decides after all to introduce Otto to her
children and to her sisters. Yikes! I see problems ahead - I have no doubts on
that score !!!!!
Klinkevals
- the film from 1999 starring Mette Lisby
18:00 We have dinner and prepare for Minx's big day
tomorrow: a possible operation at the local veterinary clinic. Minx is the cat
our daughter Alison left with us when her family moved to Denmark in October
2012.
The vet examined Minx's mouth on Friday and said that one
tooth had been broken and another was cracked, and there was also inflammation
on one side. She also examined Minx more generally and discovered that her
heart showed signs of disease, diagnosable from the sounds her little heart was
making. This would make the use of an anesthetic more problematic - with
increased possibility of heart attacks or strokes. The vet said she would like
to do blood tests to confirm this and also do a pre-anesthetic echocardiography
if it was decided to proceed with the surgery on the teeth.
Poor Minx !!!! The worst thing is that Lois and I are not allowed to feed her after 8 pm tonight.
19:00 We decide to shut Minx in the utility room at 7pm
for an hour and leave a bunch of cat food in her food bowls. But of course she
refuses to eat anything, which is quite typical. She never eats when we want
her to!
A pre-surgery photographic study:
Minx, velcroed to Lois's skirt as usual.
Tomorrow is Minx's big day at the veterinary
clinic
20:00 We turn on the television and watch an interesting
documentary about the Odyssey, the famous Greek poem. The host of the program
is the charming English poet, Simon Armitage.
The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus' ten-year journey
home from Troy to Ithaca after the Trojan war. Along the way he meets countless
dangers and temptations and loses his entire crew, while his wife Penelope is
being wooed by others at home.
It is interesting to see Armitage travel from island to
island over the beautiful Aegean sea, but it is a bit of shame that he knows
almost nothing about the historical circumstances of the period when the poem
began to be put together. He looks at the Odyssey just from a poet's viewpoint.
It is typical of the BBC to invite an amateur host to produce such a
documentary film, rather than an academic authority - they think this makes the
subject matter more accessible for the average viewer. What madness !!!!!
"Let's find a TV host who knows nothing about the
subject!" "Good idea, that will not intimidate the viewers!"
(possible excerpt from a BBC script conference).
Armitage thinks Homer was a real life poet - perhaps he
imagines that Homer worked on the poem in his private study, smoking a pipe and surrounded by bookshelves, like Philip Larkin, for example.
He perhaps imagines Homer creating Odysseus's
personality and thinking up adventures Odysseus could get involved in. Armitage
does not seem to know that the Odyssey was actually just a collection of older
anonymous stories spread orally from person to person, a bit like thrush.
Armitage does not seem to know that the
Odyssey was actually only
a collection of older anonymous stories, that had been transmitted orally,
a bit like thrush.
Homer, as Armitage perhaps imagines him -
maybe like the British poet Philip Larkin,
working on a poem in his private study,
surrounded by bookshelves.
My god, what madness !!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz !!!!!
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