#avjournal

I liked it. I really liked it. I can see how people can detest it but I enjoyed it. It was unique and crazy and I kind of love Heller’s writing style. Like, it was amazing. There were some parts that were so frustrating that I feared I’d have a breakdown if that scene went on any longer, but otherwise, just wow.

(Clearly I make a horrible reviewer.)

I’m trying to get into The Last of the Mohicans but... I’m struggling. Not because I don’t find the first page interesting... I’m just having problems understanding what I’m reading... which, of course, makes me feel dumb.

(I’m not even going to acknowledge that it’s supposed to be double-spaced.)

And I don’t feel like cutting...

Loonie and toonie, you probably already know, are unofficial names. But so too, according to the Canadian mint, are nickel, dime, penny, and quarter. Those are technically American terms. We have 5-cent pieces, 10-cent pieces, and so on.

I did not know actually. And all this time at work, whenever some random person would wave a toonie in my face and ask (or demand, depending on my mood) for “two dollars,” I’d clarify (or emphasize, depending on my mood) “two loonies.” After all, the monetary value between this random person’s fingertips is worth two dollars.

Orientate is not wrong: it’s British. For a Canadian-specific audience, change it to orient, but try not to alienate your British writer in the process.

A few years ago, I spent half my organic chemistry lecture trying to figure out why my professor said “orient” and not “orientate” and whether he was wrong... or right.