beauty thing about weblogs . . . sometimes you get to meet (figuratively speaking) people from far away, for example people that live in toronto and know some french and can stop me wondering what the french say when someone sneezes. so for a two.points.collapsing/quid pro quo sponsored international culture lesson you can visit kate, who is very smart and also 100 times cooler than mme st. louis. at least i think that was the name of my junior high french teacher–it really has been a long time….

now i feel old. i will solve that by watching my new dvd of the rocketeer, which is adventurous and fantastical and will make me feel young and spirited. thank you so much shannon for the gift.