And this is not going to be some crazy story of my adventures out here. This will be a much more banal post then you would likely expect. Crazy stories will come later tonight or tomorrow.
I woke up this morning with a mission. Some might say it was a mission fraught with disaster and overzealous in the extreme. I would agree with them. But at the time that I received said mission I was full of youthful energy and felt that nothing in the world could destroy me, least of all the journey to attaining my objective: a clean bathroom.
And so, clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and armed with various japanese commercial cleaners, an assortment of brushes and a child-like optimism, I set forth to cleanse the lavatory of its microbial invaders. The battle was hard fought from the start, pillboxes and killing zones set up over valleys, around corners, beneath the surface. But my troops were strong, moving through the grooves and cracks, evicting the biological contaminants that had colonized my water closet. Some areas were particularly hard fought, one crevice earning the nickname "suicide canyon" for the number of forays which were repulsed along its width.
Two hours later, I emerged, along with a cloud of steam, from the bathroom. "Mission Accomplished" I proclaimed with a false air of bravado. I knew that it had been impossible to oust some of the insurgents that had secreted themselves in narrow mountain crevasses. But I would persevere, I would stay the course, and perhaps not this week, or next, I would attack again, and hopefully bring order to chaos. I knew I would conquer despite my eyes stinging from the noxious cleaning fumes and my hands having become more shriveled then the testicles of a 97 year-old-man. I would win.
So yeah, I cleaned my bathroom today. Exciting. I'll talk about my trip out here later tonight. I'm running off to play poker with some teacher from the school, so I'll be back online around about 1:00 AM Tokyo time, that would make it around about 11AM Canada time...on Sunday.
So long for now, be posting again later.
2 comments:
The epic battle between good and evil seems so much more glorious when taken down to the microbe level. Brave souls clashing in arms against the dreaded bacteria.
I laughed. I cried. I laughed some more. It was a tale that rocked me to my very core.
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