Still Spring Here!
Feb. 23rd, 2004 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kcobwebNot to gloat or anything... but it's gorgeous here.
Here's a fun little item for you:
http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
It's a dialect quiz. I scored "39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee." I'm kind of a mixed bag (though I think it should have been higher), with one parent from New York, another from Texas who grew up in the Midwest - and I've lived all over myself. Hmmmm. I still love these things.
To switch abruptly to politics, I cannot express how irritated I am that Nader has entered the race. I hope he has great difficulty getting on the ballots in all 50 states - because we don't need him splitting the liberal vote yet again and handing things over to the Doofus. Another 4 years like this, and I'll be out of a job, because family planning won't exist anymore! (And we'll all have worse things to worry about!)
The weather's so dry that my nails are splitting and cracking horrendously, no matter what I do. I keep cutting them shorter - every day - and a few are as short now as they used to be when I bit them all down to the quick! And how professional-looking is that? (And my hair won't stay up either, but now we're getting into petty annoyances.)
I made an old-fashioned mix tape for my sister this weekend. She's in Germany, and tired of being so far from home, so all of the songs on it have American place names (states or cities, mostly) in the title or lyrics. It was really fun to compile. (And she'll be here in 2 weeks!!! Staying for over 3 weeks!!! Woohoo!!!)
Here's a fun little item for you:
http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
It's a dialect quiz. I scored "39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee." I'm kind of a mixed bag (though I think it should have been higher), with one parent from New York, another from Texas who grew up in the Midwest - and I've lived all over myself. Hmmmm. I still love these things.
To switch abruptly to politics, I cannot express how irritated I am that Nader has entered the race. I hope he has great difficulty getting on the ballots in all 50 states - because we don't need him splitting the liberal vote yet again and handing things over to the Doofus. Another 4 years like this, and I'll be out of a job, because family planning won't exist anymore! (And we'll all have worse things to worry about!)
The weather's so dry that my nails are splitting and cracking horrendously, no matter what I do. I keep cutting them shorter - every day - and a few are as short now as they used to be when I bit them all down to the quick! And how professional-looking is that? (And my hair won't stay up either, but now we're getting into petty annoyances.)
I made an old-fashioned mix tape for my sister this weekend. She's in Germany, and tired of being so far from home, so all of the songs on it have American place names (states or cities, mostly) in the title or lyrics. It was really fun to compile. (And she'll be here in 2 weeks!!! Staying for over 3 weeks!!! Woohoo!!!)
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I'm losing my sense of self
Date: 2004-02-23 10:58 am (UTC)Admittedly "ya'll" has infiltrated my vocabulary, but that happened in college. in New England. so go figure.
Re: I'm losing my sense of self
Date: 2004-02-23 11:15 am (UTC)Hmmm - don't they have those out your way? They are dark grey, with what looks like articulated ridged plates that cover the top half of their bodies. If they get knocked over or up-ended, they have lots of little legs that wiggle in the air, and then they roll up into a ball and right themselves. They also do the ball-thing as a defensive mechanism if you poke them.
But yeah - I kinda wonder what you'd have to do to get a full-on 100% Yankee score - is it even possible?
Right after I took the little quiz, I got a call from a woman in Memphis. Wow, what an accent!! I was imagining what it must be like to have a strong Southern accent, and then turn on the TV to watch Friends, or West Wing, or whatever, and hear all the more Northern-influenced accents.
Re: I'm losing my sense of self
Date: 2004-02-26 03:13 pm (UTC)An actor who specialized in dialects once took half an hour or so with me to try to get me to place my accent (this was my freshman year in college). Most people he could get in about five minutes. I forget what actually finally betrayed me -- something to do with syrup, I think -- but he finally pegged me to Northeastern NY/Northern VT, and that was smack dab on the nose.