Well I've had lots of comments and questions lately on my life in Marathon, so maybe I should take the time to answer some of them.
Q: How do you survive without Tim Hortons?
A: Just barely. I brought coffee with me, and Duncan was nice enough to lend me a coffee maker. It is quite common to see me putzing around with my travel-mug-du-jour from some random drug company and some nice homemade latte or tea! I also live right across the road from A&W for my fast food cravings (and by the way....why is A&W so big in Northern Ontario?!) but they are crazy expensive and I think we can all agree that if I ate there every day I would be more than 400 pounds by the time I'm done here.
Q: Have you found a man yet?
A: Yes actually, I do have a new man in my life. We just met. He is very quiet and listens to me talk about my entire day without interupting. He is always happy to see me when I come home. He never leaves laundry on the floor or dishes in the sink. That may or may not be due to the fact that he's a fish :) I bought him on Sunday to keep me company, and named him Darwin cause its survival of the fittest up here! Hahaha...I'm such a geek (that is the real reason why I am single right now...) Oh and also, my mom was nice enough to send me a pack of Man Seeds - Guaranteed to grow your own Perpetuous Friendus (thanks mom...you're hilarious!) so in a couple weeks with the proper sunshine, maybe I'll have something new to report.
Q: Have you gotten scurvy yet?
A: Surprisingly no. And it has come to my attention that bananas have gotten less gross over the last couple years (must be some genetic engineering or something), so I am actually eating quite a lot of fruit here.
Q: What's the best part of being there?
A: Tough question...I'm going to go with the absolutely most frivolous response here and say that it is the fact that since I am meeting all new people, I can force them to call me whatever I want! Many of you will sympathize with the difficulty of a preferred name once everyone knows you. I personally prefer Pamela but I don't hate Pam, so I don't want to correct people or ask them to change what they call me after 24 years of life...but here I can introduce myself as 'Pamela' till the cows come home and no one gets to call me Pam! Mwahahaha..I'm dizzy with the power of it all :)
Q: How can there not be a florist, where does the funeral home get its flowers?
A: That is a very intuitive question (definitely at the level of attending a self-directed school!). The answer would be - because there is no funeral home here. Apparently there was a spell where not many people were dying, and since funeral homes really are businesses, they had to close up shop. If you happen to die in Marathon, you have to go somewhere else to have a funeral! We also don't have a nursing home, there are just some chronic care beds in the hospital. Essentially, if you don't still work in a mill/mine here...then why stay?
And finally...
Q: Ok, I know you said it was small...but how small can it really be? How many intersections are there?
A: There are no traffic lights. I think that says it all.
Lots of love
Pamela
Dear Pamela
ReplyDeletethanks for the insights into your northern life. Your new friend sounds a bit fishy though.
Glad to hear that you have discovered teen burgers, frings or fries (I know that root beer is not part of your vocabulary).
A & W is crazy expensive everywhere. Unfortunately the cute little girls in short skirts no longer come running out for your order (not that short shirts would be appropriate attire in the great white north).
Cheesh! no traffic lights!! Even Almonte can beat that!
Keep having fun on your northern adventure!
Hi "Pamela"
ReplyDeleteAt least you have an A and W. More importantly do they have a good movie rental store. It's winter, if you get time to veg you need at least a movie rental store.
Have you used your block heater yet?