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Lobstergirl, el principe
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Feb 18, 2013 06:47PM
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Welcome to TC, Jac!We don't have a special place for promotions, but we do have thousands of threads for you to participate in our discussions and conversations.
What Misha said. We only have a few rules here and because one of them happens to be 'don't walk in just waving a book, we like to be able to see your face' we're militant? I thought that was just common courtesy.
Hello everyone! I'm a seventeen year old high school senior living in a small town- thus I fill the empty hours of my life with reading all sorts of books. Reading, writing, and drawing are three of my favorite past times.I enjoy discussions, learning, thinking about things in new perspectives, and laughing. The amount of things I find funny is inversely related to the amount of sleep I got the night before.
Welcome Oceana. Feel free to laugh as much as you want to here.
Thank you! Anywhere without a limit on laughter is a place I would like to be! :)
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TC is the first on-line group that I have ever joined and find it to be an awesome nexus of culture, literature, media and the mundane. As a proud new member as of today, I will introduce myself. As a French speaking Canadian of Acadian descent, my presence among you may very well be an oddity. The Cajuns of the Louisiana Bayou are the descendants of some of my ancestors that were “displaced” by the British Crown as of 1755 up until what Quebeckers have dubbed “La Conquête de 1760”. Born in Toronto, I grew up in French-speaking family in rural New Brunswick. I’ve been lucky to be able to attend French schools from K to 12 and beyond. Hence, I read the translation of Tolkien, Agatha Christie and George Orwell as opposed to the original. I am also fortunate to be comfortable in English, having learned it mainly through mass media and casual social interactions. I currently work as a federal public servant in Ottawa on official language issues.
For the last 3 years, I’ve been avidly reading English-language fiction. As a former Ph. D. candidate, I had forgotten the pleasures of reading for fun, as opposed to work or scholarly research. Strangely enough, this renewed interest in literature was initiated during a 5 week vacation spent camping in Maine. Incidentally, this vacation prompted a new addition to the family, my daughter Marguerite. Too much time on my hands, I guess... From then on, I raced through Don Delillo, Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Harris, Ken Follett and was hooked. My guilty pleasures are the Alex Cross and Jack Reacher series. I enjoy other media (film and TV mostly).
I do not know if reading e-books is tantamount to heresy but I make use of my I Pad to read and play word-games as often as I can. Lest I be shunned from TC as too much of an outsider, I wish to say in my defense that I spent my last Canada Day at Wrigley Field to see the Cubs with my son and his grandfather. I accept the penance of having to make another pilgrimage to Chicago, bowing and sipping before the now mythic Terminal Coffee. Hail moderators.
Nice evie. Now I think we're owed an ode.See what I did there?
Phil wrote: "Nice evie. Now I think we're owed an ode."
Perhaps on the oud?
"We're owed an ode on the oud by an Ood," she oohed.
Sarah Pi wrote: ""We're owed an ode on the oud by an Ood," she oohed."^^^^Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
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Just pointing out what the thread header is requesting.
I've been lurking with fascination trying to comprehend the intellectual leap that started with "francophones are welcome” and arrived at the prosaic "We're owed an ode on the oud by an Ood," she oohed."I guess that's all part of TC's collective personality. It is a collection of very intelligent, quirky and quick-witted people.
I just work in the silly nonsense department.
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Now, back to topic~
I'm Sally. I've been on GoodReads since I was in grad school way back in the last decade, in 2007, and a member of TC since 2008. This group has seen my engagement, marriage, first pregnancy, graduation from grad school, student teaching, my daughter learn to walk/talk/shimmy and my first two teaching jobs.
These people are my friends and my family and if you are mean to them I'll...I'll...slap you with this cold dead trout.
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Here's more:
I was born in Longmont, Colorado. My dad was a fighter pilot for the Marines in Vietnam and my parents lived in Japan before moving to Colorado and having me and my sister. I grew up in the same house where my mom still lives. The house continues to get smaller, confoundedly.
I love to read, I love to teach how to write, and I'm learning how to teach how to read. My favorite author is Haruki Murakami, and I also love ... oh man... so many others. I love Steinbeck and Dostoyevesky and Thomas Mann and Eudora Welty and TS Eliot and I don't much care for Bradbury, Salinger, or Vonnegut. I prefer the Brontes to Austen, and I'm a fan of EM Forester, even if my students keep giving sad book reports about how "slow" Passage to India is.
I have a gigantic cat named Marla. Growing up I had a gigantic cat named Ginger, and in between I had a little homosexual grey cat named Humo. Humo used to sleep under the covers with me and I still miss him. Marla, like Ginger, is more the boss of me than my little friend, but I still love her a lot.
Other than books and cats, I like my students, I like my classroom, and I'm pretty darn excited to have another baby this summer.
Oh, and I really like Chipotle chicken tacos. And if you really want to know, I have been known to eat 20 soft tacos from Taco Bell in one sitting.
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What??? This has been kept secret until now.
Sally also farts at yoga.
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Can we have a contest for who gets to name it? I am so full of ideas.
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Can you see this?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=...
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"The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page."
Perhaps I have to log into Facebook using my gay man persona. (No, that's not a comment about the cat. Just about my Facebook persona.)
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Tidewater
Dieter
Moomin
Gurt
Conch
Lichen
I have more!
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Congratulations, Sal-pal!PS: Marla is a tramp!
I don't have any boy names ready, but here are two girl names I saw in a recent article about high school volleyball. These spellings are what I call "Utah Specials."Brytni
Kaitlynn
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Dolphin
Grendel
Monkeyshines
Steel
Whelp
Clemdiddle
Spaulding
Waring
Rhodes
I've got more.
Sally wrote: "Humo was not a secret. I was heartbroken when I had to put him to sleep when I was seven months pregnant with Leah because all his little organs failed. It was tragic. Also at that time Marla was ..."Awww. Poor little Humo.
I once knew a Steel. He was kind of an ass.
Sally wrote: "Name away. I need some boy suggestions."Apollo
Amantius
Romeo
Ulfried
Arnim
Telemachos
Falko
Hagen
Tiago
I wanted one of the babies to be Moses Jackson. My mom claimed that was a "black man's" name. But then again she forbade me from naming one of the girls Grace, so there is no accounting for taste.
Just a bit full of himself. He played football and thought he was God's Gift to Women. Sad story, really, he got married and had a little guy who ended up committing suicide. Gay son, dad did not approve, an old but sad story.
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What kind of random name generator are you using, LG?"
My own brain. It endlessly generates random names.
