{{Nora}} Peace and calm~ma to you and your family. May your uncle Larry find ease and comfort.

Kirstin, the tenzo is one of my favorite fic writers. I have a Who fic archive bookmarked that has lots of good stuff, if you want more Who. There is a lot of dross, but if you sort through it there's some very good stuff. It's called A Teaspoon and an Open Mind.

Isn't Tripp usually a nickname for someone who is "the Third"?

Yep, and I know a kidling who is called Tripp because he's Rory the Third. But I'm still kinda boggled at it as a first name.

I'm always afraid folks will think I'm mocking their accent cause I pick up accents so easily. I don't mean to, it just happens.

The only thing that happened to my accent from four years in America is that I now sound more Australian.

You know, if you're a Palin, you really shouldn't use the Palin name generator for actually, you know, naming the baby.

Yes! Yes you should! And the pets, and new acts of the legislature, and possibly the capital of Alaska. Who wouldn't want to say proudly that they were born and raised in Mullet Troll, Gateway to the Northern Lights?

Thanks billytea, now I'm picturing a dorky-ass troll with a really bad haircut.

I'm always afraid folks will think I'm mocking their accent cause I pick up accents so easily. I don't mean to, it just happens.

God, me too.

When SA and I went to see Walk the Line, she came out of it with her Tennessee accent creeping back into her speech (dropping g's at the end of things, drawling out her a's reaaaaaaallly long). Totally cute.

Thanks billytea, now I'm picturing a dorky-ass troll with a really bad haircut.

To make matters worse, this is the Palin name I got for Wallybee. I haven't told her yet, I'm waiting for a special occasion.

The only thing that happened to my accent from four years in America is that I now sound more Australian.

My NY/NJ accent got much stronger when I was in Louisiana. To the point where I even caught myself saying "all o' youse" a few times, which I'd never said before I went to New Orleans. I think that my brain was trying to resist "y'all," and none of my female friends would answer to "you guys."

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And bonny, you're wonderful for helping that woman.

As for accents... Yeah, can't say much. But it's a lot better than Ehud Barak's accent.

After sleep, I'm feeling better about being fired. Doesn't help much with the war, but it's something. I just hope that uber-boss won't feel the need to do any official "talk", because in my 3 years there he talked directly at me for maybe 15 minutes, so really. I spent at least 10 hours straight, easy, by throwing Kinder eggs toys at my colleague every time he said something I didn't like, so unless the toys want to say goodbye to me, I don't see he has to.

I'm gonna miss my team.

Wait, so she named the kid Tripp, when she's got a brother named Trig who's only a few months older than the kid? Sure, and that's not going to sound confusing at ALL....eesh.

I'm SOOOO bad with the accents. I KNOW I am, but I didn't realize HOW bad until I heard a video I'd taken while hanging out with Fay and her friends and roomies when I was in Egypt--they were all UK-ers of some sort (British, Welsh, Scottish). I am NOT. And when I got home and was playing the video, I was like "wait, whose voice is THAT?" ...and then realized it was ME. And that my accent was all KINDS of crazy, to the point where I didn't even recognize my own voice. That's how bad it was.

Oh Shir, I am sorry to hear you were fired. Badness.

Phooey. A key just fell off my keyboard. I hope it goes back on again.