So what's the difference between a raindeer and a caribou anyway?
So, remember when Kaitlin gave me a link to that international penpal website? No, of course you don't. But I do.
Actually, I'd forgotten. Except that for some reason I had the odd and rare inclination to check my email this morning, and to my astonishment, instead of discovering only spam, live journal replies,and nonsense from writing websites, I found an email from someone from the said penpal website. Oh, it doesn't sound like much, but it was definitely the most exciting moment of the morning.
Anyway, this kid is fascinating. He lives in Saltspring, Canada. His middle name is Joe. I'm assuming his first initial is 'R.' as he signed it 'R. Joe' and gave me a lengthy explanation of how Joe was his middle name. No,it wasn't lengthy; i'm just being inaccurate for fun. It was a short though sufficient explanation, but whatever. His parents are Caribou Biologists. Suspicious? Not even. That's kind of cool. I was going to ask him the question I've been wondering every Christmas for years: what is the difference between a reindeer and a caribou? But I didn't want to look dim, so I didn't. Is it that reindeers are domestic? Maybe? (Oh wait, I remember now, It's that they fly) Seriously, though....
He gave me some irrelevant list of authors he liked, which I googled. David Suzuki was by the far most confusing member of this list. My immediate reaction was: why would you read Suzuki method music books for fun? Of course I noticed the first name a second after. So I googled him. Do you know who he is? I do. He's a genetics nerd. I don't even know if he's a real author. And he was the narrator for this one movie we watched in science about a week ago. He has Einstienesque grey hair and ugly glasses, and he looks kind of asian-y.
Crazy kid, huh
Actually, I'd forgotten. Except that for some reason I had the odd and rare inclination to check my email this morning, and to my astonishment, instead of discovering only spam, live journal replies,and nonsense from writing websites, I found an email from someone from the said penpal website. Oh, it doesn't sound like much, but it was definitely the most exciting moment of the morning.
Anyway, this kid is fascinating. He lives in Saltspring, Canada. His middle name is Joe. I'm assuming his first initial is 'R.' as he signed it 'R. Joe' and gave me a lengthy explanation of how Joe was his middle name. No,it wasn't lengthy; i'm just being inaccurate for fun. It was a short though sufficient explanation, but whatever. His parents are Caribou Biologists. Suspicious? Not even. That's kind of cool. I was going to ask him the question I've been wondering every Christmas for years: what is the difference between a reindeer and a caribou? But I didn't want to look dim, so I didn't. Is it that reindeers are domestic? Maybe? (Oh wait, I remember now, It's that they fly) Seriously, though....
He gave me some irrelevant list of authors he liked, which I googled. David Suzuki was by the far most confusing member of this list. My immediate reaction was: why would you read Suzuki method music books for fun? Of course I noticed the first name a second after. So I googled him. Do you know who he is? I do. He's a genetics nerd. I don't even know if he's a real author. And he was the narrator for this one movie we watched in science about a week ago. He has Einstienesque grey hair and ugly glasses, and he looks kind of asian-y.
Crazy kid, huh