Return of Memoryfest - Day 7/31

[bironic]

I owe some of you comments and will get to them, but not tonight. Am sick, I think. Or have a bizarre mid-winter allergy, which I suppose wouldn't be too bizarre after all, seeing as how it hit 70 degrees today.


7. Kindergarten

When I was five or six, my father needed to go to L.A. on business, so my family took a trip there. We visited the La Brea Tar Pits museum. Inside were exhibits on the pits, life-sized models of woolly mammoths and animations of extinct animals deep in the tar, straining to pull free. Outside, you could walk up to a railing in cement over a squared-off fossilized tar pit far below. I remember not wanting to go close to the edge, afraid I would fall in. My parents tell me I was terrified I would get stuck in the tar.

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[bironic.livejournal.com]

...But not the oldest one hanging around here, don't worry. :)

I wonder how differently the Falklands War affected people in Canada vs. the U.S., since we tend not to pay as much attention to conflicts that don't involve us, and since (I think) you've kept closer ties to Great Britain since becoming independent.

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

When I was in school, there was a sense that everything interesting happening was happening outside of Canada, so we learned a lot about the outside world. Plus, my mother and her friends were very politically active and I used to sit in the living room listening to them argue politics while the other kids played or watched TV.

And of course, we only repatriated the Constitution in 1982, so we were definitely still tied to Britain at that point.