Hey less-sleepy boy.
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
Bwah!
Ack. I'm all over-excited and having trouble concentrating on work. I got a phone call last night saying that my mortgage pre-approval is done, and I met with a real estate agent last week. Now I'm freaking out.
I haven't even looked at any houses yet, but that is soon to come. Ulp.
Hello Canadians! Hope you all made it OK through the storm.
There's an East-West Canada Smackdowngoing on at the Straight Dope Message Board I thought you might find amusing.
Ouise, that is so eciting! I love house hunting.
I see that the other thread seems to consider Ontario the East.
Heh, yes. My friend Nico (from Alberta) and I had some discussions on that point. He seemed to feel that only the exact east-west midpoint of Canada could be referred to as "central Canada" and was very surprised that I did, in fact, know where that midpoint was.
I tend to consider Quebec and the Atlantic provinces "eastern Canada", Alberta and B.C. "western Canada" and Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan "central Canada", but the really important division is into "has a coastline" vs. "is unimportant" :)
I see that the other thread seems to consider Ontario the East.
Most people west of Quebec think of Atlantic Canada as a big national park.
See, BC is 'pacific', AB, SK & MB is 'western' ON & PQ is 'central' and the Atlantic provinces are, ah, 'atlantic'... Though, I suppose one could lump Quebec and points East as 'eastern'.
Manitoba is generally not considered central because, well, Manitoba is generally not considered.
I thought that Winnipeg was the dead centre of the country. And by dead centre I don't mean *dead* centre.
Does anyone want to get together this weekend? There are several options - going out for dinner, meeting for drinks or meeting for coffee. Also, Nora and I now have the extended version DVD of Fellowship of the Ring, so if anyone wanted to come over to watch it, that might be fun. What do you say?