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Drunk and alive

I, too, hate the small talk that turns into self-validation, especially if it is done without humor, and it can be exhausting to listen to if only from the disappointment it brings. But how about these times when you have a conversation with someone and you are just on, both of you, to the point where you feel elevated from the shared understanding, from the flow of articulate thoughts and words coming at you faster than you thought you could ever process? In conversations like this, my thoughts become clearer than they’ve been in days, I sense a direct connection not only with the person in front of me (or persons, but that is rarer), but also with her ideas and mental images, and I feel like I am almost physically transported into her perspective and she into mine. It is the greatest buzz, one I can sense all the way through my fingertips, and I feel dizzy when I get up after such a talk, drunk on words and images. « Could this feeling be what they meant when they talked about being alive? », I tell myself, as I stumble home… I’m not sure, but the promise of this buzz makes the rest of our emptier exchanges a bit easier to bear.

In response to a post made by Rachel about the drama of human relationships.

I just wanna be your teddy bear

Je viens de recevoir dans mon courriel une alerte au virus qui est en fait un canular, comme la plupart des alertes au virus le sont. On me demande d’effacer un fichier nomm� jdbgmgr.exe qui se d�marque par son ic�ne toute mignonne en forme de nounours. Il s’agit en fait d’un fichier Windows utilis� pour des fonctions obscures reli�es � Java, sans intention malicieuse (bien qu’on puisse �ventuellement y installer un virus, comme dans bien des fichiers ex�cutables). Le canular est d�crit en d�tails sur les sites de McAfee et Symantec.

Ignorez donc le message si vous le recevez, ne l’envoyez � personne d’autre (�a cause plus de probl�mes que �a en �vite) et n’oubliez pas de mettre votre logiciel anti-virus � jour.

Mon dieu, on croirait entendre parler ma m�re…

Je t’aime, me neither

To mark this freezing Valentine’s Day, I thought I would offer you the
Top ten things that act as daily reminders that you are sharing your life with a true anglo
(that is, an english-canadian man submerged in a sea of francophones)

# 10 He thinks you are cute and exotic even when you swear.

# 9 He dated every anglo girl in town or closely knows somebody who dated them.

# 8 You hear him whisper the words « devil talk » every time you’re chatting on the phone with a member of your family.

# 7 You find yourself saying strange things like « Baby, we only have dep wine left ».

# 6 You see him turn red like the canadian flag when somebody says that canadians are just americans with a funny accent.

# 5 He didn’t watch La Vie la vie, even though he’s a young urban professional who lives on the Plateau.

# 4 He’s never been to a cabane � sucre and he’s never heard of drinking maple water straight from the bucket hanging from a tree.

# 3 He doesn’t know who Daniel B�langer or St�phane Bourguignon are and you have to explain to him the title of this post (Je t’aime, me neither).

# 2 No matter how good his French may get over time, he will never, ever understand a word of what Louis-Jos� Houde says.

And the number one reminder that you are sharing your life with a true anglo:

# 1 You wake up one morning and you find this box of Kleenex in his bathroom…

Awwwwh, but nothing beats them canadian boys, hey?