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[dragonlady7]

Everyone's taking this quiz. "I thought I took that one already," I thought. I went and looked at it. It's not the one I took before.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North
The West
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
Boston
North Central
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Which is interesting, as I am a lifelong resident of New York State, and could plausibly be placed either in their Northeast grouping or their Great Lakes grouping (although I haven't been in Buffalo long enough to reasonably have the accent, it does come out at times and astonish me). But no. I instead possess the no-accent of a place I've never been. How nice to hear I'd be good at radio. That's actually been said before.


Another thing: Z is nearly done with the new calendar website for his newspaper. While browsing he discovered that the coffeehouse where the NaNoWriMo writing group meets is actually a church. Did I know this? No, I had no idea, despite having been there at least half a dozen times.
I'm serious. The coffee house is a church. I am not making this up.

Z: They're a Khristian Koffee Kult!
me: ?????????????!!!!!!!!!

I don't know whether I feel better or worse for having tipped them generously.

Actually the idea of spending Friday evening at a church service wherein you can sit on a couch sipping a cappucino would be pretty compelling if they weren't, you know, fundie whackjobs. (I have trouble with the Biblical Infallibility sorts. I'm sorry, I need a little interpretation laid on that shit. It don't make sense if you're trying to be literal about it. No offense. At least the Catholics have a "don't try this at home" clause.)

Meanwhile I'm already at 14000 words and I haven't transitioned to the next act, so I'm running over on wordcount, but at least I'm progressing quickly. As long as I do a major scene every day or two the wordcount shouldn't matter too much.
But I have an assload of laundry to do. Nnnngh.

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

And I apologize if I come across as attacking Christians at any point-- I know you are one, but I also know you are a true, genuine one, and I have been deeply moved by your explorations of the meaning of love, which as far as I was raised is what the faith is meant to be about. I certainly am not saying this is true of Christians-- only a certain, painfully loud subsection of people who call themselves such and yet instead of love preach only hate.

[galadhir.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's such a nice thing to say! Now if only I could manage to practice what I write, I'd be doing OK :) *g* But no, I know. Up until a couple of years ago, I'd never really encountered the scary, condemnatory, rabid h8er side of the church before. I very naively assumed it was full of people who were doing their best to live up to Christ. Little did I know! Since then, though, I've been following the debate about homosexuality, and seen the lying and the sheer bigotry that some so called Christians engage in, and I would not hesitate to apply the word 'evil' to that kind of fundementalist religion. Which is a sad thing to say.

So I know exactly where you're coming from - it's just that although they may think they represent the purest form of Christianity, there are pockets of the real thing still going on. (Interestingly enough, often brightest and most incredibly moving in the GBLT churches. I sometimes think that one day the MCC will be the only genuine church left.)

Sorry, I'm waffling now, when 'no offense taken' would have done just as well :)