Huh. I can't say it would bother me on a visit, since at least I'm *in* your country, so you wanting me to do it your way would make some sense. I was much more annoyed by the American girl who came to visit us while we were in Ireland, and then spent all her time telling us how everything different about Ireland was "wrong", from bacon to money. Dude, if you didn't want to see anything unAmerican, why did you pay good money to leave America?
Definitely more rootless than an MA. He's burnt out and doesn't want to owe anybody anything or vice versa, which will make his sudden acquisition of an unbreakable bond that much more annoying. Bar staff would work nicely.
He's also got to be something of an artist (to attract the leahan sidhe in the first place) but unambitious with it (to refuse her offer). I'm thinking musician, the kind that's content to busk and play in pick-up groups and doesn't dream of a recording contract, but I'm not wedded to it.
Maybe it's just because I read so much British and Irish fiction, but I use bill/note, check/bill, school/university, and jelly/jam almost interchangeably. Not the others, though. Fries are fries forever and ever amen. :)
It's merely amusingly inaccurate to call me a Yankee. I don't mind. It's only when you say it to a Southerner that those are fighting words.
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Date: 2004-06-18 05:47 pm (UTC)Definitely more rootless than an MA. He's burnt out and doesn't want to owe anybody anything or vice versa, which will make his sudden acquisition of an unbreakable bond that much more annoying. Bar staff would work nicely.
He's also got to be something of an artist (to attract the leahan sidhe in the first place) but unambitious with it (to refuse her offer). I'm thinking musician, the kind that's content to busk and play in pick-up groups and doesn't dream of a recording contract, but I'm not wedded to it.
Maybe it's just because I read so much British and Irish fiction, but I use bill/note, check/bill, school/university, and jelly/jam almost interchangeably. Not the others, though. Fries are fries forever and ever amen. :)
It's merely amusingly inaccurate to call me a Yankee. I don't mind. It's only when you say it to a Southerner that those are fighting words.