Oh, so you're a citizen. Cool.

Yep, natural-born in San Francisco. Didn't you notice my complete lack of accent when I talked to you? People always comment on that.

Hil has a new tag.

I loved Joan Aiken. I think I read everything she wrote.

Glad to hear Gud's good news, and Deena's. So sorry about Deb's bad news.

I am happy to report that Jessica arrived safely in New Orleans and her new haircut looks very fetching in person, but it was her hat that got the Random Guy at the Bar to come over and comment. Favorably, of course.

Didn't you notice my complete lack of accent when I talked to you?

Noticed, yes, but somehow saying, "Wow, you don't have an accent!" struck me as gauche. I figured if you'd gone to school here all your life, you'd have lost any accent. Hubby spoke nearly only German until age 7, when his military family came back to the states, and he doesn't have an accent--though he speaks German in his sleep.

That's only because he's a double agent, connie.

Oh, Cindy, I wasn't even thinking about the Boston channels. I could always watch those and see things at the 'right' time. Unless they took them away or something.

For all the LJMaine community is buzzing over it though (they said it was on the morning news), Googling isn't turning up much. I doubt it's ever going to happen.

That's only because he's a double agent, connie.

That explains so much.

Wow, an old college friend is getting made over by Allure, as part of this total body challenge program. Everyone I know is getting made over!

Hubby spoke nearly only German until age 7, when his military family came back to the states, and he doesn't have an accent--though he speaks German in his sleep.

Is his German in an accent? I was noticing, in India, how when I spoke Gujarati, I spoke it in basically my normal, unaccented voice. But it sounded fine. Whereas if I speaks, say, Spanish in my normal voice, it screams, "Foreigner!" I have to put a little Spanish oomph into the words to make it work. I don't know whether it's a function of being Indian or the language, because trying to imagine one of my non-Indian friends speaking Gujarati is pretty awkward.

Huh. Maybe my voice changes in a very subtle way. It's almost subconscious. Weird. I'm trying to switch back and forth, and I think my voice is slightly different, but I can't do anything about it. I can't tone down the Gujarati into what I think is closer to my normal voice. It's the only way it comes out. Whereas I can easily put a silly Indian accent onto my English-speaking.

ai yi yi, dealing with nice bt weird client, trying to get his registration web site up today.

Trying to be nice.

Is it assholish to, as a response to a crazy client asking for information you have provided weeks ago, and gotten a response to weeks ago, forward the client's responding email back to him, saying something nice, like, I think this got lost in the holiday shuffle? Because that's what I did.