Rational Animals
Please note (above) that today is “Jour de la raison”, as we’re into the annual cycle of holidays that closes out the French Republican Calendrical year, so can we stop talking like pirates and start being rational.
(Don’t worry: it’s just for one day.)
And speaking of animals - it’s also time to clear out all those skanky mutts from under your desks and mop up the damp patches round the water cooler, as Take Your Dog To Work Day is yesterday’s news too (not a day too soon!) http://www.takeyourdogtoworkday.co.uk
↓ Quote | Posted 20 September, 2006, 11:43 amYuck! Who’d want to take their dog to work? I’m very glad to report that no-one I saw at work yesterday brought their dog in. Not that I saw, anyway. We were too busy talking like pirates.
(Actually, I only talked like a pirate with one work-colleague yesterday, and that was in the pub after work, rather than at work.)
At the vet I go to — though not so often this year, as Enkidu’s four feet have been in better working order of late — they’ve taken down the big Dog Incontinence poster, and I’m pleased about that. I didn’t like being made to think about Dog Incontinence while I was worrying about my cat.
↓ Quote | Posted 20 September, 2006, 11:53 amso can we stop talking like pirates and start being rational
I think I’ve been talking like a pirate, on and off, for about three years. I started for ITLAPD a few years back and never really stopped. Also my housemate did her dissertation on pirates and our fridge wears a pirate hat. Is it okay if I carry on? Particularly since I missed most of this year’s event due to sitting in a silent archives reading room. Bah.
↓ Quote | Posted 20 September, 2006, 3:17 pmPerhaps you need there to be an International Day of Not Talking Like A Pirate, Lorna, to address your particular needs?
↓ Quote | Posted 20 September, 2006, 4:29 pmYuck! Who’d want to take their dog to work?
I would. And I used to do it, too, when I lived close enough to work to walk her there. It is true that one of the sociology faculty called me a “hippie”’ for doing so. (I was the system admin for a modest size departmental computer system.)
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 12:53 amAlso, what happened to the French Revolutionary date announcement? That was one reason why I had decided that this blog must be cool :-)
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 12:56 amAlright. We can have an exemption for your dog, Paul.
The French Calendar should appear just below the big “The Virtual Stoa” at the top. It does on my browser, at any rate. And today (Friday) is, of course, the first day of the New Year…
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 8:28 amOkay, I gound it: it disappears if I try to enlarge the font with ctrl-plus.
Unfortunately, Brandy died last November (cancer—she was 13, which is a good lifespan for a Siberian Husky, so I don’t feel that she was taken from me before her time). Since such work as I now do is done at home, my cat Spice (a blue-cream—picture on my homepage) comes to work with me by virtue of simply being here. I would let Noal, the scruffy outdoors cat in, but Spice will want to run him right back out again. When, hopefully soon, there is another Malamute or Siberian Husky about, then she too will come to work :-)
↓ Quote | Posted 24 September, 2006, 2:29 amThere must be a link here somewhere, since my pug dog Jasmine has indeed been Taken to Work, but only when my workplace was in the French Republic with a tricolour flying over it. (Things are indeed different there, since she was also regularly taken round the food section of Monoprix and once as a participant-observer to an open-air strategy meeting of the Nice branch of the French Communist Party, with no eyebrows raised).
↓ Quote | Posted 27 September, 2006, 12:51 pm