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[seandc]

Seemingly long day today, with a sunny walk in, and a cloudburst on the way out. Coming in out of the rain is the most natural time to buy sunglasses, isn't it? ;) Well, they'll do until someone creates a magpie-repellant *goes to Collingwood and just drives around, meh heh heh*. Ok, wrong kind of magpie - as Bender would say "Hey, what's with the flying jerks?!"



You are an Iris:

You are logical, analytical, dignified, and wise.
You are studious by nature and may prefer books
to people. You tend to be a serious person but
are capable of making others laugh with your
dry sense of humor. Friends always benefit from
your advice.

Symbolism: Over the centuries the iris has come to
symbolize faith, wisdom, hope, and promise in
love.


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"Book" Smart You are what people might call 'book smart.' What's meant by this is that you have a high degree of learned, theoretical intelligence. Pretty much, you've acquired your smarts through education, and you work best with theoretical or conceptual thought. 40% theoretical intelligence 60% learned intelligence

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Comments

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Magpies? As in the birds? Heckle and Jekyll? Are they a big problem there?

And the weather seems to have been awful everywhere this past weekend. We had 90kmh winds yesterday, there was a power blackout in Mississauga (the city just to the west of Toronto), and some friends in Montreal lost some shingles off their roof.

[seandc]

Yup, magpies, the bird - Australian species of, so don't know how similar they are to other country magpies.

Most of the year they're all right, they happily (and very curiously) go about their business. But in the late spring, they get all swoopy. Big glossy butcherbirds with big triangular beaks... we're taught to be very careful of them and other butcherbirds.

And yeah, the weather is going mental. I just mentioned the rain as a contrast to the morning, but Adelaide has flooding, and I think major storms in New South Wales in the last few days too.

Ah well, just wait until the mercury starts climbing, then there'll be some colourful posting...

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a real-life magpie - I don't even know if they're indigenous to this part of the world - so I can't tell you anything about how the Australian ones might differ.

Regarding the swooping, I've seen that kind of behaviour in other bird species - when I was about 14, I was at Ontario Place (a theme park here in Toronto) and I got attacked by seagulls.

As for the weather, it was weird again today - dreary and drizzly, with a sudden thick fog around 4 in the afternoon which cleared up by 5. It's clear(ish) now but damp. Ugh.