Gedankenuebertragung
Wow - the past couple of weeks have been a blur, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Tho I may not remember much of the 85,000 tasks per day I've been tackling, I have noticed that a lot of little serendipitous things have been happening - for example, one evening I was tidying my office (finally!) and came across a photo of an old friend in NYC. As I was looking at the photo, I heard my Mac go "ding", meaning I had a new email. I checked the mail to find an email from the old friend's boyfriend of many years (whom I haven't heard from in awhile) with a photo attached of the old friend and me and other friends... cool, I thought! My friend who sent the email is German, and when I emailed him back with my "OMG..." observation, he responded with "Das ist Gedankenuebertragung!" I had to laugh - not because I knew what that meant, but the fact that the word is about 3,000 syllables and too many letters to count - typical German word. Ha! Another German friend who was visiting last week translated it for me as "when two minds meet" or some such, which was appropriate, of course.
So Sunday night rolled around - my favorite HBO night. After I got my Big Love fix, I was eagerly awaiting the start of Flight of the Conchords - my new favorite comedy show ever. I was comfortably curled up on my sofa, bundled in my favorite cosmic blanket and cuddling my darling little Mojo. Less than a couple weeks ago, li'l Mini-Mo had an epileptic seizure one evening that scared the living hell out of me. I thought he was going to die, and was truly freaking out. I ended up just holding him tight, sobbing and telling him "you CAN'T leave me, you little fart!" while he shook violently - eyes rolled back in his head. Finally, the seizure just stopped after a couple minutes, but I was still scared and clinging him tight to my less-than-ample bosom. Finally Mojo started squirming a bit, as he was ready to get down (and probably being squished to death by me). I gingerly placed him on the floor and he galloped off to the kitchen to get his ropey toy and bring it back to show me. Thank god! He seemed perfectly fine, as tho nothing had happened - leaping around like the little circus dog he is. Knock on wood, he's had no more incidents since, tho I will admit I'm still a bit skittish whenever he makes any kind of movement out of the ordinary. At least I know now that these short seizures can't actually hurt him, so if he does have another one, I won't be quite so freaked out.
So, finally the Conchords came on. (here's the Gedankenuebertragung part) The episode ended up being about epileptic dogs of all things - ha! It was friggin' hilarious. The video below is their performance at a Benefit for Epileptic Dogs - their "remix" ending is extra hilarious. Unfortunately the video ends before the post-performance discussion, when the organizer of the event declares their performance an utter disaster - seems the strobe lights and flashing screen used in their remix ending caused all the dogs in the audience to seize. LOL!
Luckily Mojo got through the whole episode just fine. He loves the Conchords anyway and thought this was one of their best. Of course - he could relate!
That is the cutest picture of Mojo EVER! He looks so happy to be a dog.
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