I got to the coffee machine this morning just as it beeped to say it had finished brewing. Usually on the occasional times I decide I want coffee, it was brewed about 2 or 3 hours ago and is not fit for human consumption. Also, it was the French Roast coffee, which I like cos its mild, and I’m a coffee wuss. I like coffee, but it doesn’t like me so much. Like with chocolate cake I get a headache if I have a lot.
Is it really bad that that happening put me in a brighter mood? Well, it might be my fanta-orange nails either. I decided as sandal weather is appearing, I need some spangly bright toenails, but I can’t see them as I type so I did my fingers too. All together now: working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living... Luckily I’m not using a Petite 990*
The other evening, a girl that sold Mark the crazy shoes asked me were we from Newfoundland which was kinda cool in that it means that its actually true that Newfies have Irish accents. I would love to go to St. Johns, where by all accounts they have Wexford/Waterford accents, due to both the fishermen that used to split the year between Canada & Ireland and ts remote location isolating it from the evolution into Canuckness. ‘Howya hun?’ I’d say, with maybe a tentative ‘eh?’ thrown in so as not to scare them with my best townie twang.
There will be another blog-break next week. Mark has the audacity to be bringing his power-buke to Chicago with him on Sunday. Which means our emotional reunion will take place next Thursday evening, the 19th. That is me & the computer, not me and Mark. From then on though, there will be the literary masterpiece ‘Jill alternative tour diary’ to look forward to. The official diary will be here I presume
*(crappy kids typewriter)
Friday, May 13, 2005
Excerpts from my brain
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JILL! The Petite 990 is effin' class!
I think Mark should get you a PowerBook for your birthday. My next computer will be a little iBook like Orlagh's. So nice and girly.
Would love to see how they react to your townie accent. And the Petite 990 rocks
Note to self - be sure to relate Canada's long-running tradition of the "Newfie-joke" to Jill and Mark.
It was fan-bloody-tastic! Saw Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, and a bunch of smaller towns in between. Great Guinness (did it even need saying?), friendly folks, awesome weather (god smiles his radiance upon Canadians when they travel)...all in all a worthwhile trip. I'm thinking about stopping back in next summer on my way to the World Cup in Germany.
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