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Arg. I have no idea how, but I hit some unholy combination of keys and turned my keyboard French. So now I can't - wait a minute. '""?
Bugger! I turned it back to English. And I have no idea how. For the last few hours it had been converting apostrophes, quotation marks and question marks into É, é and something else. And just now, when I finally got tired of having to cut and paste 's everywhere and decided to blow off some steam about it, it switched back. *&%$#!!
On the other hand it does make me smile and think of my friend Leslie Rampey. I pretty much lived in the Ottawa U Law Library in first year, and she worked in the library at her college, and we used to exchange anywhere between 6-12 or so e-mails a day. She could always tell which computer lab I was using because the ones in one room were configured for French (Ottawa U is a bilingual university) and they gave me what she called a "French accent," because I couldn't be bothered to figure out where the apostrophe lived on the keyboard so I just used `. As in, "You won`t believe what Rey`s doing in this flinchfic I`m reading!"
I can't believe it's been four and a half years since she died. I still think about her every so often, though not as much, and when I do, it's mostly with a fond smile. Amazing the way some people can touch your life, even when you never even heard their voice.
Hee. I started typing this post and set Mood to "annoyed." Should change that :)
Bugger! I turned it back to English. And I have no idea how. For the last few hours it had been converting apostrophes, quotation marks and question marks into É, é and something else. And just now, when I finally got tired of having to cut and paste 's everywhere and decided to blow off some steam about it, it switched back. *&%$#!!
On the other hand it does make me smile and think of my friend Leslie Rampey. I pretty much lived in the Ottawa U Law Library in first year, and she worked in the library at her college, and we used to exchange anywhere between 6-12 or so e-mails a day. She could always tell which computer lab I was using because the ones in one room were configured for French (Ottawa U is a bilingual university) and they gave me what she called a "French accent," because I couldn't be bothered to figure out where the apostrophe lived on the keyboard so I just used `. As in, "You won`t believe what Rey`s doing in this flinchfic I`m reading!"
I can't believe it's been four and a half years since she died. I still think about her every so often, though not as much, and when I do, it's mostly with a fond smile. Amazing the way some people can touch your life, even when you never even heard their voice.
Hee. I started typing this post and set Mood to "annoyed." Should change that :)
