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[camwyn]

The trees in Van Vorst Park were bending in half today when I got up, or at least it looked that way from the window. I could hear the wind over and through them rising and falling like the ocean.

I was almost tempted to call in sick on account of not wanting to miss the weather. There is something about a proper wet wind under a greying sky...


.... yes, I know, I have been remiss in posting anything interesting here recently. My apologies. I've just concluded two major plots at Milliways and should have the brain free for the rest of the writing now.

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[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for more about Canada.

[camwyn]

I need to go back there, I think. I need to feel foreign again, even if it's in an English-speaking country. I need to turn on the news and realise that while it's still going to be heavily dominated by the things Americans do, it'll be from the point of view of 'look what the neighbours did- okay, enough of that, we've got a drought in Alberta to worry about and there's been a spate of murders in Vancouver'.

God dammit I need to be somewhere that people don't think they live in the centre of the universe.

[batyatoon]

... don't people think that everywhere? (Cf. the Very Strong Anthropic Principle?)

[camwyn]

On an individual level, yes. On a city or national level, no.

New York City thinks it's the capital of capitalism, the greatest city in the world, and the most important city on Earth. It would take a truly amazing quantity of drugs to get anyone in, say, Toronto to think that about their city.

[batyatoon]

Well yes, but that's only because New York really is all those things.





Kidding.

Mostly.

[camwyn]

*patpats*

Whether it is or not, like I said, it would be good for me to be somewhere that doesn't think it's all those things.

[rajrr.livejournal.com]

Well Toronto does think it's the best and most important city in Canada. If that counts.

You should come up, visit, drink our beer.