Do NOT miss Angel next week.

I sure won't! The pictures make me laugh insanely.

When will they close work???

NEVER!!!

Megan, did you go to work? Everything else seems to be closed, but they're not specifically telling Gov't Employees to stay home. Yet, they're telling people to stay home unless you have to. I'd only go in if I htought A. would be there, but since schools and daycares are closed, I doubt she will. I think I may hang out for a while, and see what happens. I'm supposed to be in school this morning anyway.

It looks like either someone already shovelled my sidewalk or the wind is blowing it out there. Either way it's good.

I just don't see why someone should be mockery free just because they're french.

I think it has to do with a trio of facts: a) The French are a minority in this country that have a long history of being marginalized and treated unfairly by English Canada and b) The fun that was made was not of poutine, Celine Dion, the weather or some other mundane franco-Canadian thing - which is fair game, but rather their ethnic origin and their right to speak their language (probably latent American hatred of all things Freedom...erm...French, post Iraq), and c) It was done by an outsider.

Again, going to Victoria, Toronto etc and making fun of the group in the majority is fair game, but going to Alberta and mocking natives for being drunks is playing on historic and offensive stereotypes. The same is true when you tell French people to go back to France, or to stop speaking French.

And again, I go back to the canoe.ca article which essentially pointed out that saying "Go back to France" to a Quebecer is little different from saying "Go back to Africa" to an African American. Both phrases are so ladened with historic racial poignancy as to be not fair game for humour. In fact, the "humour" in using such phrases is tied not to irony, wit, double entendre or cynicism, but rather to the base distain that English Canada has and has always had for Quebec, and that America has newly developed for all things French. That's why the Toronto audience laughed, and that's why it played 'well' in the US - and that is specifically why they shouldn't have resorted to that type of mean-spirited, you-are-less-than-us-because-of-who-you-are "humour".

CBC just announced that all Gov't buildings are closed today!!! Wooot!

GOD! THE LC IS CLOSED!!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!

Holy weather event Batman!

Snow. LOTS of snow. And you can't even see it all b/c most of it is buried under snow.

So, there's a "State of Emergency" announced by the province that is yet undefined. This is getting more and more exciting.

I just went outside to see how things were. Tis very windy, and cold! My touque almost blew off my head. The sidewalk by my house is blown clear, but there was about two feet of snow up against my front steps. I shovelled a bit of the snow away from the steps, but I lasted only about 10-15 minutes, and when I came in I was entirely covered in a layer of snow. Good day to stay cosy!

Rafmun went back to bed but I have 4 loads of laundry in the dryer and 1 more in the washer. Once that is done, I'll probably join him in the cosy bed.

Elena, do you have to work? Can you make it to work?

I'm too excited about having the day off to sleep!

A. left me a message when I was online earlier. I tried to call her back, but it was busy. Maybe she's taken the phone off the hook!