Not difficult, then, but I wonder if the person in question knows that it takes seven years of residence, and that she and her husband will have to (a) learn Norwegian, and (b) renounce American citizenship. Since they're moving there to get their kids free healthcare and education, I wonder if they've noted that "In general, birth in Norway does not, in itself, confer Norwegian citizenship" and their kids won't be citizens until they are.

But she's probably not serious.

Probably not.

I looked into going to university in Scandinvia, actually, because tuition was free for everyone, but just about the time I was looking they were all moving towards it not applying to foreign students. Which makes complete sense, honestly. It would have been pretty inconsiderate of me to just barge into a country where I spoke not one word of the language just for free education. Although it would have been fun.

But she's probably not serious.

She appears to think she is serious, but I don't think it will happen. First they need to deal with the fact that she is going to college and working 2 jobs because she married a man who was hear on a student visa from England, and he can't work because he has no green card.

She seems very confident that they can learn Norwegian easily.

She seems very confident that they can learn Norwegian easily.

Yikes. Norwegian itself isn't a particularly difficult language, but actually learning Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or Finnish (which *is* a particularly difficult language) ends up being a tremendous task because basically everyone in Scandinavia speaks English. So unless you address someone in incredibly competent Norwegian, they are just going to reply in English.

My friends and I used to joke that if we ever moved to Norway or Sweden we'd have to pretend to be from some incredibly obscure country (or just make one up entirely) and to not speak English. It was hard enough a lot of the time getting Chinese people to speak to us in Chinese while we were in China, and usually my Chinese was significantly better than their English.

Why are they balking? If you have a prescription, they need to fill it. I don't get why they give you such a hard time.

Too soon since the last time. But, hey! I really want to go into work this week. And that's what it's going to take,

But it's finally been called in! I just need to grab it before my next meeting. Which requires outside pants, sadly.

There is a fairly amazing number of people who hear "socialist" and think "Nazis."

The Nazis really ruined socialism for everyone (and a lot more than that, of course.)

This cracked me up. The story of the moon.

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The newsbabe's name is Megyn Kelly, and I'm surprised she's not in the Attic right now...for the record, her name looks like a condition, spelled like that.

Breast Cancer Cookies. . . hmmm, it might have been better had they called them "Breast Cancer Awareness Cookies."

Breast Cancer Cookies. . . hmmm, it might have been better had they called them "Breast Cancer Awareness Cookies."

To paraphrase Don Draper, "I don't think anybody wants to think about cancer in their cookies."