In answer to someone's comment about my shift in diction, I will just say that it's hard to maintain two styles of spelling and grammar. My mother has just recently begun complaining that I even "type Kiwi" now ( Read more... )

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On Friday, the truckers protested increased road user charges in Wellington by driving past Parliament and honking their horns. "Hear us, politicians! We are here and we are not happy!!!" Too bad Parliament doesn't sit on Fridays....

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This one's my favorite (favourite) because of the little sympathizer (sympathiser) truck at the end. "My horn ( Read more... )

Ok, so New Zealand is CRAZY and likes to TORTURE me so they delayed the broadcast of American Idol by three weeks. THREE WEEKS! Luckily mainstream media here respects the media blackout and doesn't tell you who wins, but I did have to take an internet break to avoid being spoiled. Sadly, including LJ ( Read more... )

Every Tuesday evening, I take meditative yoga with these two old bitties. Aunties, if you will. And every night when we're done, they both call after me as I leave, wave, and say "See you next Tuesday!"

Cracks me up every time.

Someone, somewhere actually took off their Tom-Brady-Is-The-Second-Coming-Of-Christ Goggles:

Patriots' leader is a three-time Super Bowl champion, but he seems more a quarterback for his time than for all time. In other words, he's no Unitas.

Preach, brother. Preach.

Like 74 million Americans, apparently, I didn't have the game on TV either. So I watched it on the internet, via gamecast, which is wildly inferior ( Read more... )

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Jesus, can anyone beat the damn Pats? For serious.

Also, attention so-called sports commentators: I get it. We all get it. Brett Favre is talented and cute and an all around nice guy. He is not, however, the second coming of Christ. And also, while we're praising record-breaking quarterbacks in the NFL right now, have you met my friend, ( Read more... )

This is the actual text of an actual email we received at the office, inviting us to attend a conference on "grammatical competency."

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