Good

I've dropped off the final paper (HIST 391), and I've switched to an unlimited-time Internet package with ISN (I download a lot, probably too many, mp3s and videos and whatnot).

Next, to meet up with Amy's Id.

Afternoon

Amy's id was quite nice to meet in person. I ended up tagging along to some theatre performances in Duffy, the final exam of the theatre class. There was a deadly funny play of a massively dysfunctional rich family (marriage getting annulled, children psychologically wrenched, cruel cutting comments all around) that was very good; Act 3 of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was less so, although that's because I think Wilde's plots tend just to be a collection of quotes strung together in the semblance of a plot--I'm not making a very good bi, am I?

I left at 3 pm, and then went to Main. I gorged on cheese in the Economics Lounge, then fell asleep as I read a book in the cushioned Eames chair in the English Lounge and missed my ride by an hour.

Oh: My copy of 2300AD's Colonial Atlas has come in. So, yes, I'm quite pleased.

Honours Essay notes

• Thirty Acres describes a civilization (the French Canadian Catholic rural peasantry) that was quite dynamic and resisted liberal industrial capitalism for a relatively long time (until the 1920's) before succumbing.


• Barometer Rising describes two civilizations (Cape Breton Gaeldom and Haligonian upper-class WASP circles) which were not dynamic, which did not differ all that much from the "Ontario/US model" to start with and did not discourage assimilation.


• Surfacing describes a civilization--the Euro-Canadian presence on the Canadian Shield--that has entirely given up on trying to be independent of the core, and is just satiated by being a periphery.

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This isn't good:

Toronto Star

Nov. 29, 2002. 01:00 AM

Even before the `moron' flap, Canada was petty in U.S. eyes
Bush White House regards neighbour as minor irritant President's relationship with Chrétien extremely poor

WILLIAM WALKER
WASHINGTON BUREAU

2400AD?

(This posting, to those of you unfamiliar with 2300AD, talks about merging four fictional RPG settings into one. So, if you're worried about being a geek, be warned and read no further.)

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