Oh the weather outside is frightful...

ninja_kat, mcee, a_dawn, help me out here: I've lived in Ottawa since I was eight, and I don't know what the heck we denizens of this fine city are called.

Are we Ottawans? Ottawarians? Ottawites? Ottawese?

Whatever we are, the weather outside here in Ottawa has actually not been frightful at all. It's like living in a little touristy snowglobe. Quite lovely to look at. A real bitch to drive in and shovel, though.

***
Went to Env class this morning, to hear our last guest speaker speak. Prof St. Lewis, she of the fascinating nonlinear tales - whose CivLib class I dropped this term, and whose Critical Race Theory class I signed up for, for the January term. Wow, she's amazing. She talked to us about her experience in post-apartheid South Africa, working with human rights and environmental rights, and the juxtaposition of the two.

( Prof St. Lewis's out of body experience, paraphrased )

Also: one of our students in Env today? He's from Australia. First time seeing snow in his life :) Said he hadn't realized it would be so wet, so we had to explain that it's not always like this. Great snowball weather, though. I think he went out to try and lob a few after class.

***
I was going to write about Daniel's sick day today, and the protest downtown yesterday, and all sorts of other stuff, but now I must be off to choir. Maybe later.

***
Oh - just one thing, from yesterday:

Me: (as we're driving towards downtown) OK, here's what we're going to do tonight. We're going downtown because - remember President Bush?
Boys: Yeah?
Me: Well, he's visiting Ottawa today and -
Daniel: (interested, cheerful little voice) Are we going to run him over?
Me: What?! No, Daniel, of course not (and I'm trying to sound shocked and disapproving while stifling a fit of the giggles) we're going to go to the Hill for a candlelight vigil.
Daniel: (slightly disappointed tone) Oh. I guess that could be fun too.