in no particular order...

@grail76  I don't watch TV actually...but I do watch series... I am currently on Season 2 of Bones, in the past 4 months, I have gone through HOUSE, WEEDS, COUGARTOWN, FLASHPOINT...and probably a few other individual episodes of things while I find my next fix...

@ the_emi  I am reading more things than my  brain can keep track off.  Floating around the house and the office at easy hand right now, are MACLEAN's newest issue (about teenage girls), Signs of Safety (child protection stuff), Opening UP (polyamoury stuff), Giving the Love that Heals (self help/parenting stuff), Artemis Fowl (fun stuff), B'haillakua (sp?  religious introduction to Ba'Hai)...

@ pundigrion  oh dear...born in Peterborough, Ontario....lived there for a little while, moved to Lansdowne Ontario (east of Gananoque), back to Peterborogh (bounced around in Kindergarten and Grade 3), moved to Kingston at 16 to live with  my dad, then to Gananoque with him.  Went to University in Hamilton, lived there during the school year, and bounced from military bases, and parent's houses when I wasn't in school.  Worked at Quebec City, Halifax, CFB Borden, Victoria BC, Chiliwack BC during that time frame.  Lived in East Lansing Michigan after I was married, then came back to Hamilton. Then went to London ON, back to Hamilton, and now am in Waterloo.....*whew*

@ elricthescribe wow, that's tough.  I don't know that I could pick anything that had the "most" impact on who I have turned out to be...perhaps that is because I am not sure who I am....  There are people and situations who I could say have had influence.. How about I give you those?
Mr Jim Glynn - a teacher from 2 of the public schools I attended.  Mrs Heatherington - another teacher who tied my left hand behind my back because left-handed people were unlucky.  A professor who taught criminology at McMaster and chewed tobacco at the front of the class.  A judge who ignored what I had to say.  Dr. Nahum Spinner who worked in the Schizophrenic ward AND worked at the jail - who I was lucky enough to shadow and taught me about PEOPLE.   A man I once trusted in a car, on a side road  - with his fingers in my hair.  Wondering who was "behind the glass" during a counselling session with my family.  My daughter.
I think I could go on....  but I'd rather not.

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