mip: nunavut!?

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mip) wrote,
@ 2008-02-03 20:29:00

nunavut!?
did you guys know about nunavut?

i didn't until right now! i was looking at maps, and saw a strange "nu" on the east side of the northwest territories of canada, and then i saw a boundary line, and then i zoomed in and saw "nunavat." and then, friends, i googled.

apparently this happened in 1999! no wonder i didn't know about it! i had to learn canadian provinces and capitals way before that in school, and then i never heard about them again! i am too old to have learned about nunavut! hence, i am learning all about it on my own time, right now.

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iamoddd
2008-02-04 01:49 am UTC (link)

somehow, i knew about nunavut. i don't know why or how, but i remember learning about it. maybe it was a northwest territory and we learned what all of them were, by name.

i remember making up all kinds of sad puns about it in my head. well, i guess only one kind of pun. it usually followed this format: "that nonsense?! i'll have nunavut!" "(insert thing)?! i'll have nunavut!"

i'd venture to say that i think of the word, "nunavut," at least once every 1.5 years.

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	mip 2008-02-04 01:50 am UTC (link)
	i lived in ignorance of nunavut until tonight! i can't believe it! :( (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iamoddd 2008-02-04 01:52 am UTC (link)
	all the puns you missed! well, i don't know about a lot of things. i don't know as many vocabulary words as thee, for instance. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 01:53 am UTC (link)
	you know about plants and about driving and about snow and about musics and about nunavut! i had a botanie time today. i hope i didn't kill a baby african violet-et that has no root system yet but had to be removed from its bigplant. eep. i love the odor of peat mozz. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iamoddd 2008-02-04 01:56 am UTC (link)
	peat mozz is so weird! it keeps moisture in, but when you pour water on top of it when it's dry, it rolls right off. it's like a dry sponge, only it's dirt! i love the smell of greenhouses, the top of a boy's head, and shoe stores. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 01:57 am UTC (link)
	THE TOP OF A BOY'S HEAD?! i know what mode YOU are in, sir! one eight hundred el doubleyou! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iamoddd 2008-02-04 01:59 am UTC (link)
	NO. not that boy. i just mean a boy in general. maybe if i am laying on a couch next to one, i like to have my head higher, and that is the real reason i like it. lw went to watch the mightiest of bowls with manfriends. that ship has sailed. :\ (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 02:02 am UTC (link)
	oh, that lw will be back. he will knock on your door at mittlenoche and say, "well, uhm, callie, it seems as though i am, well, standing--as opposed to, say, sitting, or even laying--here, in the front of your house--on your porch, if you will, which is a structure similar to a deck, somewhat, but a bit different in that it--aw, hell, can i put yet?" (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:03 am UTC (link)
	that is the only way a boy will be able to put it in me, ever again! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 02:05 am UTC (link)
	you can put it in the one that is in that email i sent you. a dropped g and "have a blast" and a five-seven talked me out of it. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:13 am UTC (link)
	five-seven is also too short for me, i think. i don't think i like him. then again, he is weird. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 02:45 am UTC (link)
	five seven is only one inch taller than five six. at five six, i start thinking that i am taller than a person. it is a weird complex. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	and for the record, iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:02 am UTC (link)
	i have not shared a couch with any boy for the longest of times. :[ (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: and for the record, mip 2008-02-04 02:03 am UTC (link)
	well me either. aren't we fatties. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: and for the record, iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:05 am UTC (link)
	::engorges:: (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: and for the record, mip 2008-02-04 02:06 am UTC (link)
	stank patois. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	also, iamoddd 2008-02-04 01:58 am UTC (link)
	african violets root pretty easily, i hear. they're just finicky in other ways. did you have rooting hormone? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, mip 2008-02-04 01:59 am UTC (link)
	i did not! i hoped it could root without it. really, i hoped it would divide more easily and i wouldn't have a rootless little planto.mew. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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iamoddd
2008-02-04 02:01 am UTC (link)

it might be alright. keep the soil moist, but not soggy/algaegrowy. if it gets too dry, the little microtubules at the bottom of the stem will close up and it won't get any water in. if it gets too wet, the cells will keep bringing water in because they're trying to have equilibrium, and the poor little guys will explode. that's how plant cuttings wilt from both over- and under-watering. the end.

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	Re: also, mip 2008-02-04 02:02 am UTC (link)
	MEWiamscared (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:05 am UTC (link)
	well, if it doesn't live, you can make leaf cuttings and all sorts of other cuttings. it probably will live, though. i think i remember propagating things from that same family, and they were fine. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, mip 2008-02-04 02:05 am UTC (link)
	i can't bear the thought of any plant cell dying! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, iamoddd 2008-02-04 02:11 am UTC (link)
	mean ether, until i worked at daniel stowe, and they showed me how to prune things. i was shocked at first, because to help a plant have healthy new growth, sometimes you have to take as much as 1/3 of it away! i'd demonstrate, but i haven't a planto. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, mip 2008-02-04 02:44 am UTC (link)
	jake the plant might need pruning. help. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, iamoddd 2008-02-04 04:23 am UTC (link)
	what kind is he again? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: also, mip 2008-02-04 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	peperomia! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tomservo42 2008-02-04 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	best coat of arms ever: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=880 (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	an igloo wearing a crown! what a king! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	tomservo42 2008-02-04 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	used to be the desktop background for my work computer. The igloo king is great, but I for one am partial to the narwhal humping the circle. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hockeyophile 2008-02-04 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	I remember reading about the newly-created Nunavut in 1999. And since I love to browse through articles about countries and states and provinces and cantons and all other kinds of national divisions, I know quite a few things about Nunavut. There aren't that many people up there, and the capital city looks a bit dreary. But I'm still fascinated by it! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mip 2008-02-04 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	me too! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

hockeyophile
2008-02-04 06:36 pm UTC (link)

Isn't it weird how the map on Wikipedia shows Greenland due north of most of North America? I am so used to seeing it northeast of the US and Canada on most regular wall maps. I know those wall maps aren't realistic, but they messed up my perception of where Greenland is!

But back to Nunavut. Wanna take a trip there someday? I can't be the only one who wants to visit the weirdest places on Earth. It would be cool to say we've been to Nunavut. It would be cooler to have people look really confused when we say that too, either because they can't imagine why we'd go there, or because they've never heard of it (more likely).

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	I'll have Nunuvut! (Anonymous) 2009-06-22 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Stop being fascinated. It is just dreary. I've been there 4 times (for work) and dread it all year. The capital city, Iqaluit, we dubbed "Sqalid." Become fascinated with Fiji, or Norfolk Island, or someplace where the sun shines and the grass grows... signed, a sad cold Canuck (Reply to this) (Parent)

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