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Infrastructure
Well, everyone's abuzz in this city that the metro has been extended to Laval. This is good for two reasons: 1) it'll reduce this city's carbon footprint, because the thousands of suburbanites in Laval who work in Montreal now have an alternative to cars, and b) I hear the metro stations are pretty.
Of course, it also brings us one step closer to Laval, which I'm putting in the negative category. Any place with a flag this repugnant should be quarantined. It looks like they designed it in two minutes while the mayor was playing Tetris.
The reason the metro is necessary is because of the congestion on the bridges between the Island of Montreal, and Laval's island. Laval is on Île Jésus -- "Jesus Island" for those of you who don't speak French. And that sounds like a fundamentalist theme park -- or a mist-enshrouded lost island in the South Pacific where the locals will attempt to sacrifice you to a rampaging 50-foot Jesus.
Life
My next two weeks are insanely busy, but I did spare time for Beltaine at foi_nefaste's tomorrow, and my birthday a week tomorrow.
I'm keeping up with my writing (116,000 words as of today), and I'm still enjoying One of the Boys. Yesterday I came across the term in that book: "latent feminist." In the 1940s, it seems, "feminist" meant "effeminate," and some men were classified as "latent feminist" -- likely to become "effeminate" (hysterical, passive, etc) under stress.
This is one of those windows on the sheer pace of change -- only 60 years separates us from that. I wonder what our time will look like, 60 years from now.
Well, everyone's abuzz in this city that the metro has been extended to Laval. This is good for two reasons: 1) it'll reduce this city's carbon footprint, because the thousands of suburbanites in Laval who work in Montreal now have an alternative to cars, and b) I hear the metro stations are pretty.
Of course, it also brings us one step closer to Laval, which I'm putting in the negative category. Any place with a flag this repugnant should be quarantined. It looks like they designed it in two minutes while the mayor was playing Tetris.
The reason the metro is necessary is because of the congestion on the bridges between the Island of Montreal, and Laval's island. Laval is on Île Jésus -- "Jesus Island" for those of you who don't speak French. And that sounds like a fundamentalist theme park -- or a mist-enshrouded lost island in the South Pacific where the locals will attempt to sacrifice you to a rampaging 50-foot Jesus.
Life
My next two weeks are insanely busy, but I did spare time for Beltaine at foi_nefaste's tomorrow, and my birthday a week tomorrow.
I'm keeping up with my writing (116,000 words as of today), and I'm still enjoying One of the Boys. Yesterday I came across the term in that book: "latent feminist." In the 1940s, it seems, "feminist" meant "effeminate," and some men were classified as "latent feminist" -- likely to become "effeminate" (hysterical, passive, etc) under stress.
This is one of those windows on the sheer pace of change -- only 60 years separates us from that. I wonder what our time will look like, 60 years from now.