Bull Wrestling and Pigeon Racing

Bull Wrestling

So, anyway, my back is feeling moderately better. You know its good to have a life like mine when I am sick or injured, I can lounge about the house, sleeping reading and taking it easy. I can't sit for too long because of the pain, but ho hum; it gets me moving which gets me feeling better. I intend to go for a walk today, insha Allah, maybe go and have some coffee and read a novel.

I can now sleep on both sides, and it doesn't hurt too much to roll over! Dragging my body out of bed this morning only really took about three minutes. Tomorrow, who knows? I may leap out of bed, drop kick my dresser over, jog a full marathon, wrestle a bull into submission and be cleaned up and nicely dressed for dinner at seven.

I have still been feeling and extraordinary feeling of constriction. you when you have to wear a shirt with a high, tight collar and a tie on a hot and humid day? All day long you are are pulling at it, twisting it out of shape, itching and trying to let air inside. That is kind of how I feel. Plus due to some error in my postal service - read: substandard - I am without money for the rest of the week and most likely, weekend. Which is a terrible inconvenience, as there is a very good possibility that my rent cheque and auto insurance payments will bounce.

I love Newfoundland and I love the people, but never, ever, ever, should anyone ever have to do any sort of business here. Service here is unconscionably slow; unabashedly slow! This is a "No Substitutions" culture, where if its not offered on the menu, then you can't order it; literally and metaphorically speaking. Due to a certain geographic isolation and cultural stubborness, opportunities for self determination of wealth and entrepeneurship are over-looked or quickly crushed. Any criticism to the current way of business is often seen as an attack on Newfoundland culture and is met with resounding bitter cries; "If you don't like it, then you don't have to be here!".
I am here because I really, really appreciate the attitudes of the people, their friendliness and, yes, more often than not, their pace. Perhaps its a catch-22; if Newfoundlanders adopted free enterprise, welcoming a fast paced 24hour seven days a week business environment, then many of the traits which make it so unique will be lost and forgotten.

Pigeons

I like pigeons. Its always been my dream to have a pigeon loft and race them.