HEY!! We deserve all the happiness we can weasel out of you. 'Cause were the nicest country.

I was backpacking long ago, travelling from Montreal with a Canadian friend across North Africa. She had a long-standing issue with Americans (mostly) who tagged on a Canadian flag onto their luggage so they'd be treated more nicely.

That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?

However, if you're that nice, you shouldn't bogart the happiness on this oh-so-special USian day.

C'mon, you can tell me, you guys just crammed it in before Christmas for an extra day off, right?

No, we crammed it in before Christmas to have an extra two days off. Why else would it be celebrated on a Thursday?

And Canadians have Thanksgiving, just not today.

That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?

My friend's uncle was minister of Indian Affairs during the Oka crisis, and my friend said he's never heard such racist things come from someone's mouth as his uncle.

We're no means perfect.

Hey ita, did you hear reports that they found info on the Montreal Metro system of one of the Madrid bombers? I was watching the news last night, and I kept thinking, "Not Montreal!" [link]

It feels too early to be awake. 6:15, when it's this dark outside and in, is somehow a huge indignity.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Ack! Leave Montreal alone!!!

Chinese float liquid condom concept.

It's dark inside because not everyone's up yet. I'm sure the rapid clicking of powerbook keys and the ghostly glow on our faces will wake them up soon.

Or maybe I'm too much of a morning person with insomnia to understand the persistence of a holiday sleep-in.

My sleep schedule has been so wacked lately, this feels almost normal.

Or maybe I'm too much of a morning person with insomnia to understand the persistence of a holiday sleep-in.

Hey, it's perfectly OK to like to be up early!

I can never decide which is more fun: sleeping in and getting up late (including waking up on the regular time, stretcing, smiling to myself for not-needing-to-get-up and going back to sleep), or getting up early and read, make a jigsaw puzzle or the like, long before everybody else wakes up.

Timelies! I'm not going to NJ after all, so I have no plans for today. I'm not even sure what friends are at loose ends (not many, I think) so I may just have to go to a movie by myself.

Happy Turkey Day, lovely Buffistas.

**gobble gobble**

Kermit waves

Catch y'all on the flip side.

...and with that, off to Maine.