the moon and sixpence

Here's a book survey from darciana. Started on my lunch break yesterday, now complete.

( 11 reading-habit questions. )

It's all hot and muggy. It's hard to be productive. Maybe I will join the family on a mall excursion...

From shorelle - this looks fun.

List 10 of your favourite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

( The character list. )

I can't see an obvious connecting thread but perhaps you can. :)

I caved, http://karenjeane.dreamwidth.org/

Thanks to hiverious for the invite.

Like most folks, I have no idea what to do with this... I won't be "migrating" or anything. But there will be some sort of activity soon. An also a plain, non-fugly layout when I find/ make one.

So... add me if you're over there? Thankies.

Can't believe my job is two-thirds over! One more week to go, plus two extra days getting ready for the site launch on June 30. (Party!)

The last couple days I've been cropping scanned photos from the Whitney Pier Historical Museum. This is Sydney's traditionally ethnic/ working class neighbourhood, and also former home to the Sydney Steel Plant. The plant opened in 1901, was viable until post World War II, limped along on government money till 1990, and was dismantled for scrap metal and parts (some of which are supposedly in India) in 2000.

I didn't realize that the quiet, out-of-the-way city I live in looked so positively Dickensian only 100 years ago . . .

( Two historical photos of the plant. )

Among the scanned documents was also a sentimental poem about the plant, how it brought people from everywhere into the happy community, until "the government had it's way" and closed it. This poem was from 2001. I think the poet forgot the part where the gov't kept it open 50 years longer than it should have.

People in Sydney even now simultaneously curse the government and lean on it for payouts, pensions, etc. I think the phrase "suckled at the teet" might apply.

( Our new premier. )

While not a single seat changed in Cape Breton (we're creatures of habit), clearly they did elsewhere, giving Nova Scotia its first NDP provincial government. For my non-Canadian readers, the New Democratic Party is a centre-left party that likes social spending, unions, the environment, and things of that nature.

Let's see if Darrell can make N.S. - if not a "have" province - then a better province.