I have never been good with numbers. I think I'm a literature person and after this month, maybe I could even be a 'language' person. So, with that in mind, someone will have to explain this to me: Why does the Weather Network give you two temperatures when it is inexplicably hot out? Sure, they give me hourly updates to tell me their 'numbers' - say 37°C - but that it "feels like" 42°C. Right now, in my cabin, I'm feeling 142°C. Do you think the Weather Network is just trying to mess with me? I think it feels like they are playing a tricky little mind game.
Oh, and here is a time-saver, Weather Network: Make sure to keep my rant on file for the winter months when -37°C feels like -42°C with the wind-chill!
Maybe this irrationality is heat exhaustion setting in?
As for my lessons, it is so hot, the only Michif phrases I can seem to recall right now are those that involve "it's hot"(kishitew) and "I'm going swimming"(ni wii bakashimon).
There is a lot of talk about the weather in our lessons. Since we are living Michif and learning about the community, we have been given a lot to think about in terms of how the weather has changed; how storms have never been as bad as they have been this year; how plants are disappearing; how animals are acting strangely and appearing where they shouldn't; and how fast the water is rising.
I am not currently in what I would consider "the North" right now. However, I think there is a message from the 'North' that the 'South' is not receiving. It has been said, but I think it demands to be said again, that the rate of consumption in the South is being felt in the North. I will spare you of my enviro-rant of the day, but will simply say I have heard several accounts of how the land here has changed and may not be able to recover.
Why doesn't the Weather Network - or all other mainstream networks for that matter - communicate what THAT feels like?
Oh, and here is a time-saver, Weather Network: Make sure to keep my rant on file for the winter months when -37°C feels like -42°C with the wind-chill!
Maybe this irrationality is heat exhaustion setting in?
As for my lessons, it is so hot, the only Michif phrases I can seem to recall right now are those that involve "it's hot"(kishitew) and "I'm going swimming"(ni wii bakashimon).
There is a lot of talk about the weather in our lessons. Since we are living Michif and learning about the community, we have been given a lot to think about in terms of how the weather has changed; how storms have never been as bad as they have been this year; how plants are disappearing; how animals are acting strangely and appearing where they shouldn't; and how fast the water is rising.
I am not currently in what I would consider "the North" right now. However, I think there is a message from the 'North' that the 'South' is not receiving. It has been said, but I think it demands to be said again, that the rate of consumption in the South is being felt in the North. I will spare you of my enviro-rant of the day, but will simply say I have heard several accounts of how the land here has changed and may not be able to recover.
Why doesn't the Weather Network - or all other mainstream networks for that matter - communicate what THAT feels like?
7/30/2007
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