Posts by Amy Gale
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Amy, this is a pretty accurate example of what he's talking about, I think.
That's not "a girl from a Misty story"! That's Misty! Your brother married Misty!
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I never got over it, and eventually married a girl who looked like one of the characters from a Misty story.
And now all the Misty readers are lost in an inappropriate fog of "the one where a girl gets turned into a jellybaby" and "the one where the girl has the amulet made by pig-worshippers", completely unable to remember the features of anyone in other stories.
My friend got Girl magazine. Who knew the world contained so very, very many disadvantaged ballerinas and gymnasts?
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Perhaps many other papers fit the description of Thurs/lifestyle + Sat/hardest-crossword, but if it's the NYT you can always get the crosswords online. (And am I the only one who is annoyed beyond reason when people in books talk about the Sunday crossword being hardest? Ptui.)
For example, the village-like aspect of Wellington is apparent in the DomPost still printing a weekly list of the names (surnames in BOLD CAPITALS)
Could be worse, could be like the US towns that print the names of people who have been merely arrested. Innocent until proven guilty; shamed immediately.
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I love the "welcome home" you get at Auckland too. Perhaps it's just weakened emotional defences after a long flight, but it often threatens to make me tear up.
Such a marked difference from the "we know your type, you damn dirty overstayer" that you get in the UK and US - all the more horrifying when I ponder that I'm probably in one of the very least threatening demographic clusters and most people are probably getting it even worse.
(I also love on-arrival duty free, truth be told. I think all countries should have it.)
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So, that Listener article - would someone consider ripping out and mailing me a copy in return for, I dunno, a homemade patisserie treat at such time as we are co-located?
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In some churches (eg LDS), going on missions is a pretty common activity for young people - maybe there are just too many for the cannibal-dancing-round-pot regions to absorb.
We get Mormon missionaries round central NY, even. Dudes, your religion is from here...
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It has mostly changed my feelings about trying to read, listen to an iPod and use a stairmaster at the same time.
I have two key pieces of advice:
1) use an arm strap rather than trying to balance the iPod on the console.
2) tuck the excess cable under your sports bra strap so it doesn't fly around catching on things. I don't know what the functional equivalent for men is - putting on iPod before shirt so all the cable is on the inside?
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Now, now, I won't hear a word against the casino. What could possibly be wrong with a place that has free drinks, the Cirque du Soleil, and a Payard?
I mean, it does, right? Otherwise, why would anyone go?
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I used to live around the corner from The American Sign Language & English Secondary School. One of my strongest memories of that area is the long lines of teenagers surging up 23rd in the afternoons, concave for line-of-sight, engrossed in conversation.
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It's been a while since I've been glorified, and never for copy-editing.
I do like doing a bit of copy-editing from time to time. It's one of those gratifying jobs where the meaner you are, the more people like it.
Perhaps it can be a new euphemism. "Mary confided to Josie that her boyfriend wanted to experiment with copy-editing."