Your green mountains sound so spooky and peaceful and beautiful!  Did you feel yourself really inspired by something in particular? I love old collapsing buildings, its always so sad when they get torn down and ghosts are left without a home.  Yes, I'm thinking of the ghost scenes in Ugetsu.  Now you make me want to…

Oh, green mountains.  I was thinking the craggy kind of bare mountains.  Did you have to drive along a cliff edge at all?  I can't imagine it being hot in the mountains, mountains to me mean really cool air, even in the middle of summer.  Were there a lot of old buildings in the town?  I'm imagining you singing Banana…

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Drunken archery + bartender nobody saw arrive = Alien Jesus, please be careful next week!

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There was some kind of festival going on here today.  I really need to pay attention more, it caught me by surprise. I saw a Tennessee license plate!  Have you ever seen a Northwest Territories license plate?  They are shaped like a polar bear!  Anyway, for me FESTIVAL means MINI DONUTS but I couldn't find the mini…

Thank you for telling me about Sadako.  And the saddest thing is the world has not learned its lesson and its only a matter of time before nuclear weapons are used again.  And probably the next bomb will again be from a country that is supposed to be the good guys.  So many civilians, like over 100,000 have been…

I don't know too much about Canada's history either.  French settlers, English settlers, the Hudson Bay Company, a lot of hockey games and wolves and bears and snow.  That's about it!  I don't really understand national pride.  I didn't draw up the boundaries or write the constitution, or even ask to be born here!…

I originally avoided Facebook because I didn't want to be stalked by weirdos from high school, now I avoid it because what little time I spend online I'd prefer to spend here!

I don't see it as an age thing, most of the people who pester me to join are older relatives angry that I'm missing out on the thousands of photos they took in Mexico.  My idea is that by forcing them to email me photos directly they will edit themselves and only choose pictures that I would personally like to see …

I just checked it right now.  Its suggesting I follow Ryan Seacrest, Ashton Kutcher, and Pink.  I know Twitter can't see me glaring back at it, but I'm glaring back at it anyway.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who is sitting out Facebook and Twitter!  Remember when a person's family stuff was limited to photo albums, some tapes, and a trunk in the attic filled with scrapbooks?  It seems like Victoriana now, but that was just ten years ago!  I expect my family memorabilia to crumble to…

Can your cousin's grandparents speak English?  Is EB going along, too?  Do they live in a city or a small town?  Are you driving or going by train?  Sorry, too many questions again!  I hope you are going by car so  you can rest along the way.  Have the little ones every been to see their great grandparents?  I look…

My mum and dad and sisters and aunts and uncles all had uniquely terrible taste in everything!

Are you sure you should go out this weekend?  You need to rest.  I guess it will be an interesting trip, but you don't want to do too much and make yourself worse.  Do you have a new Nancy Drew to read?

Do you have a headache, too?  I hope you don't go to school in the morning. Poor Claudia, you need to send EB off right now to get you Nyquil!  I can't enjoy Miss Mend if I know you are sick in class.  Take 2 tablespoons of Nyquil and get into bed and ask EB to read Tokyo Heist to you until you fall asleep.  Nyquil…

Oh, poor Claudia, I don't like it when you are homesick.  Your visit home is coming up in two months?  But then you return for the winter?  During your holiday visit, could you change your mind about finishing the year and just stay in the States?  I'm worried about your holiday.  I think its just going to make your…

I know that thing where I don't want to get up for school.  I had it every day!  But was there a particular reason today why you woke up not wanting to go?

You don't have to be a germaphobe to fear bedbugs. Everyone should fear bedbugs. I had someone over once who casually mentioned she had recently been in a bedbug house.  I didn't take my eyes off her, or her purse, or her jacket, for the duration of the visit.  And the second she was out the door I tore the sofa apart.

Claudia, I have a horrible thought. What if Kristy finds out about this software and decides it could be used by the BSC for storyboarding your babysitting jobs?  You know the way she likes keeping records of everything.  Keep her away from Amazon!