Almost as bad as when 2 Hedge-hogs steal a car.

I am relieved today - apparently I don't need to know ALL of the words to Star-Spangled Banner in order to pass the Citizenship test. In reading the words to the US national anthem and it definitely has lots of references to explosives - do they mean rockets like at Disneyland or are we talking the type of rockets you strap to planes?

I am pretty sure a lot of the lyrics allude to an extreme dislike of the British Redcoats (Which is a little worrying).  I think "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution." must be about the French though, because we all know Frenchmen have stinky feet.

"Hi there, I'd like to take the Citizenship test please."







It reminds me of my first day at work in the Phoenix office (In the not-so-nice part of town) where I paused outside the door to comment that "Oh!, someone is having a firework display from the sound of it." and my American counterpart looked at me and said "Those aren't fireworks son"

In other slightly less silly news.  Today REALLY snuck up on me - I had barely had chance to worry about something before the something that I had hoped "might" happen if I had worried about it first, ummm well,  happened.

Today I feel like dancing around like a happy fool and yet at the same time I am very, very serious about getting done what needs to be done - a weird combination - Like winning the lottery in the middle of a Battle or something.  I am scared to dance around cheering in case someone blows my head off :S

Today also has a feeling of being the end of a beginning and the beginning of an end. The dust has not settled but the thumping of hooves is far away now.  So much to learn still and far to go for me but I realize how truly blessed I am and I didn't learn my lessons the hard way just to go and learn them all over again - oh no, no sir, not I.. <<whispers>> ..not I..

One final thought - Work Girl linked me "Alien Hand Syndrome" and it completely freaked me out. Apart from when I was 18 and had a massive pimple on my neck (Which I thought was a second head) I never knew there were people who's brain functioned like 2 completely separate minds. (With one person driving the hand and another the rest...)
Imagine trying to drive a car like that?  ..Almost as bad as when 2 Hedgehogs steal a car, and the Steering-wheel-Hog has to shout instructions to Pedal-Hog every 5 seconds or they crash (How else would it work? All you can do is add more Hedge-Hogs and Hedge-Hogs can't read maps and don't have a very good team-ethic to start with.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome