Tomorrow is April Fools Day, and once again there will be no jokes whatsoever. My only contribution to such hilarity was to once swap around the drawers in one of my frigid student houses. It did get a mild reaction. Mwahahahah. Apart from that, practical jokes and All Fools Day have been foreign countries, odd abstracts in alternative lives. Practical jokes are one of the most divisive forms of humour, aren't they? They tread awfully closely to cruelty a lot of the time.
Job rejections are never nice to take, but it does get easier after a while. I, for example, just got a fairly significant one. It's fortunate that I do have a budding tuition business to keep going in the face of failure, but that initial bite is always sharp. At least it's followed immediately by the reassertion of the monotonous nature of real life. It's pretty hard to feel bad when you have a pile of laundry to fold and record cards to complete. Enought about such real world things, though. Humbug to the real world on a Thursday evening!
Here's an interesting word from the Phrontistery: 'kalon'. Apparently it's from Greek and referes to beauty that is more than skin deep. In a world so superficial that inner beauty never even makes it into contemporary media, the ancients had such concepts and even specific names for them. It's rather thrilling to stumble over such things. Even if every other source of Quirky Muffin fodder fades away, there is the accumulated weight of archaic words to sift through, and all the fascinating ideas based in other languages, even in music itself. How many people know what Dionysian means, without looking? Ooh, how impressive.
Yes, April kicks in tomorrow, time lag from Daylight Savings Time continues, and the world continues to spin. Also, 'Choose Your Own Adventures' may be the way forward with some of my English students. We will see...
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