Johendra Johandra

Yep, last night it was Joanne again and I felt my melancholic humour (black bile) swell and rise while my other humours (blood, yellow bile, phlegm) shrunk. The funk was come unto me, as the Bible says. Waar sal my hulp vandaan kom?

From AT, naturally. She liked the ensemble, but I thought Joanne was looking suddenly older. Her hair was not as feathery as the night before, and now she looked older. Could she be shape-shifting?

'Yes,' said AT, 'but I still like the jacket.'
'Pumpkin?' I asked.
'No, more like salmon'
'Pumpkin on my TV. Maybe it's your colour settings.'
'No. Must look bloody awful. Changing my colour and hell, yes, it IS orange. Old pumpkin is my vote. Still like the jacket.'

Underneath this pumpkin, she was wearing a black top or t-shirt, and an ephemeral necklace that looked like an executive's toy from the 1980s - you know, all thin, almost invisible wire with gobbets of steel.

And then: 'Something has happened with the weather guys. Even Simon was worthy of a second look last night. Very much Mahendra's style.'

Perhaps there is collective shape-shifting going on at the SABC. Not quite reshuffling, but still. Could Mahendra, in a sly move unbeknownst to his victims, be zapping Johendra and Simondra with special fashion rays, while he shape-shifts into the soberly dressed newsreader we all want?

All of this creates further pressure on Mahendra's Ties to diversify. But how? Subcategories? Different blogs? One blog called Everyone's Ties? Almal Altus? Doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?

But I was already back to being engrossed in Room 207.