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Interesting to compare with 1888 Canterbury quake on almost the same day, same time, same magnitude.
The scale of what's happened is taking time to register; we sometimes worry about floods and tsunamis down here, but hardy ever about earthquakes.
I feel sad about all the Victorian buildings downtown that we've lost or will lose. Christchurch will look quite different without them.
[aftershock: pause to huddle in doorway]
However, no doubt the reconstruction will be good for the economy! Or good for those in engineering and construction, anyhow.
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It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.
or The Wild Brunch
or Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
or Arthropod at the Round Table
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David, you're a genius.
I wonder if Marianne and the giant bug could feature in another story with some of your characters from The Funeral?
It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.
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Are you saying I'm all mouth and trousers?
Must be the opposite of pantomiming, then. ;-)
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Robbie Robertson deepened and slowed down crickets' song for the background in this track:
Possibly better without the human vocals.
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She seems to have forgotten to mention my trousers though.
Media 7 used to be talking heads...now it's talking trousers. Is this bespoken tailoring?
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George - are you glad you were homeschooled? If you feel like sharing.
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@Ben, yeah I was meaning average kids, not kids with special needs. I've met a few parents who are convinced their (average) kids need it.
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The most memorable (literary) tale of childhood bullying I can think of is Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye. I think that story resonates with many, many people.
Something that worries me about home-schooling is, what happens if you grow up without having to deal with lots of other kids all the time? Kids can be generous, they can also be brutal, and I think learning to deal with all kinds is one of the biggest things we learn in school.
Or do home-schooled kids emerge into the adult world with robust, undamaged egos, and are then able to handle snarky, game-playing adults easily?
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In regard to Myers-Briggs, I think these qualities are liable to change, and can also be context-dependent. When I first took the test, in my early 20s, I was ENFJ, but just on the cusp of I/E. I'm sure in my teens I would have been an introvert, since I was fairly shy in most settings and found socialising, especially in a free-form way, exhausting. EXCEPT with a group I belonged to of bright kids who didn't fit in all that well. We totally "got" each other and were very extroverted in a group.
Now I test as strongly extroverted, and I think a big part of that is that I have a peer group, and I'm not worried if I'm different from other people (or they're different from me). There's that awful feeling you can get in school, that everyone but you fits in, and when you leave school you find that there are HEAPS of people who are like you, it's just a matter of finding them.
And that group of bright kids -- I think I would have gone nuts without them.
And regarding AS, I have a good friend who scores near the upper limit of these tests, but easily passes as normal in relating and empathising. He tells me it's all learned behaviour and comes from a lot of deduction and trial-and-error. He's really good to talk to if I'm upset about something because he always says the right things. It's most impressive.