Well. Nothing wrong with being part Canadian. Mom was from Brooklyn. That counts for a lot. And everybody loves Canadians, on yeah...
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Lived in Somerville for four years and never saw the snowy squirrels. Bleah.
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:51:14 pm PST #971 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Sue - Dec 16, 2002 6:55:18 pm PST #972 of 9843
hip deep in pie
We've finished watching Buffy, thank you very much.
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:57:18 pm PST #973 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Uhm...I was on an almost day-long job interview for a placement agency today, and was tested on six different kinds of software for five hours. And some of the tests were for software I'd never really seen--three or four year old versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark--that didn't at all match what I'd just learned. And I spent all last week studying up on them so I'm tired and loopy. It's not showing, is it?
Whew. Thank god.
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:58:28 pm PST #974 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
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ARRRRGH! The Canadians are here!!
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Oh. Right.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2002 7:00:07 pm PST #975 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dude, Canadians are where you LEAST EXPECT THEM.
Or, you know, in my case, randomly calling me between the hours of 8 and 9 on Tuesday nights, despite repeated warnings to KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF.
Technically, I'm a Card Carrying Canadian. Or would be, but the Card is too large to fit in my wallet.
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 7:06:36 pm PST #976 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Worst thing is, they look just like us.
Take my grandmother, for example. On the surface, a nice American grandmother from Brooklyn, beloved by family and friends, surrounded in her declining years by people who would compete for the honor of doing her favors. Underneath--yep, from a Canadian family who'd been in NS for nearly a hundred years by the time she was born (1909).
And you wouldn't know it, except for the unmistakeable Scots brogue, the dual citizenship, the trips back "home" to "see" the "family", the Certificate of Naturalization from 1946 proudly hung on the wall, the .ca suffix to her relatives' e-mails, and the fact that she knew all the words to 'The Maple Leaf Forever', that being the anthem when she grew up. See how wily they are?
Edit: Ple, of course it's not going to fit in your wallet--it's probably in ten legally mandated languages (g)
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 7:08:07 pm PST #977 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Worst thing is, they look just like us.
Are we still on squirrels? 'Cause if so, I'm thinking your family pics could have some novelty value.
Laura - Dec 16, 2002 7:09:20 pm PST #978 of 9843
Our wings are not tired.
DH is half Canadian. I suppose my kids are 1/4 Canadian?
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 7:16:55 pm PST #979 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Squirrels are always on-topic, but right now it's Canadians. Borders get very loose and unguarded whenever Canucks and Americans intersect.
And how'd you find out about Uncle Bill?
askye - Dec 16, 2002 7:24:25 pm PST #980 of 9843
Thrive to spite them
We have white squirrels around here. Not many of them, but down by the beach you can see one or two of them at my Great Aunt's feeder. Also at the really keen Natural Museum place, that's a bit like a zoo, except all the animals are in as natural a habitat as possible (that is they built the fences and such into the ground and there is as little concrete as possible. The otters have a concrete pool. But the alligators just have a partioned off area of the lake...I digress), there are white squirrels there.
Also, and this would be of interest to Kenny (if Amy Parker is around) they have birds there, but all the birds---owls, eagles, whatnot--have been injured in someway and rehabilitated but can't be let back into the wild. Plus there is a farm from the 1800s. And they have days where they have demonstrations about how everything was done. It's really fun.