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Got to watch another Due South episode last night. I got past the "AAAAAH I'M DOOMED" part fairly early on and spent most of the episode going 'squee!', with the occasional bout of 'that animal is about as much of a wolf as I am'. Also wrinkling my nose a lot at the female lead's excessive hair and makeup.

On a semi-related note, my calendar this year appears to have pretty much every Canadian holiday in addition to the American ones. Also quite a lot of Mexican holidays. This was not done on purpose; I bought it because it was on sale for $4, and it was all German shepherds, and one does not get fussy about which breed of dog is on one's calendar when one is shopping for calendars at the $4 price point. It did, however, pay off in one regard. Lacking any particular reason to choose any other day, I picked 25 February 1873 as Sergeant Preston's birthday. According to my calendar, 25 February is Yukon Heritage Day.

It seemed appropriate.

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I've got friends who get tickled as anything when my accent swerves way into the country, as it does whenever I'm talking to people whose families have been here since forever. My mom used to do it, and I'd laugh at her for using a phrase like "Ain't seen you in a coon's age!" ...I've recently had to apologize, as i do the EXACT same thing.

I think my eventual goal is to make it impossible for people to tell where I'm from based on my speech, if only because I've filed off most (but not all) of the regional 'tells' one gets from living in NYC to age 11, then added 'tells' from sufficient other English-speaking areas of the country and the world to balance the remaining ones out.