Nobody seems to know who Prince Edward or Charlotte is. I find this somewhat distressing

Thanks grandpa for the birthday card!!

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Why have these words been filtered out of daily use in Canadian english? (except for a few people who make a point to use a few of these, Lena? they are not especially common) The majority of Canada is unilingual, and seeing how most people use only one language on a day to day basis, you might think that they would keep their one language with as many words as possible, so things wouldn't get too dull. It seems the opposite has happened. Although young people do contribute a large amount of descriptive slang words, which replace a few, there's still remains the lost english words.. slowly forgotten. And why do the quebecois take english verbs and make them french when the french way far away in europe take english nouns and make them french?
English is influencing french everywhere, but why in such different ways. Probably for the same reason they eat souper in Quebec and dinner in France. To confuse the hell out of me.

There's apparantly a warning out for a storm to take place tonight. I've heard stories of past storms on the island, and now I'm quite excited. For one thing, work would likely be cancelled.
Just to clarify, I like my job, and (unlike in Russia) we have a coffee maker in the office, and toilet paper, soap and hot water in the bathrooms which makes it a much more comfortable place to spend the day. Plus I work 9-4 with an hour lunch, which are reasonable hours for me. People have to come and say "it's 4 o'clock!" (but the expression on their face means "time to leave, I'm the last one here and I want to get home and lock up and why on earth haven't you gotten the heck out of here already? You're a volunteer for crying out loud. We don't even pay you, and you still won't leave") To me, this is an indication that I kind of like my job. I like working with Galia, and I like our supervisor, Mary Joan. She's young enough to be hip but old enough to be responsible and experienced. Despite my current
job-satisfaction I:
a) think the term "job-satisfaction" is an oxymoron
b) like the idea of not going to work because you're on a little island which is the victim of freak storms and snow up to your waist and 0 visibility and winds gusting up to 400km/hr. Except for the wind part. That's a huge lie. I'm not actually sure how fast it will go, but it's pretty darn fast.

I better knock on wood. Probably because I've bragged about the possibility that we will be snowed in and work will be cancelled, the storm will skip over PEI and hit only New Brunswick or something. I hear Edmonton is like -49 or something crazy like that. Is work there cancelled?