My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.

McCain mentioned three or four or maybe more times, in almost identical words, about how Obama hadn't voted against his party line in the Senate and he had, and about "bipartisanship" (which means nothing more than that you think the folks who disagree with you are right to some extent). It's almost as though he wants to get across that he's not really a Republican.

Happy birthday to the wonderful plexq!

For those of you who don't read news.gnome.org, here's a new Metacity post: should double-clicking the menu button close the window?

Rio's teacher claimed, when she spelt a word with a "zed", that "zed" wasn't "proper English" (though it wasn't unreasonable to ask her to use the same terminology as the other kids), and when Rio apologised but said she'd been brought up speaking British English, her teacher told her she wasn't British. She was a bit upset about that, so we went over. Her teacher said that she'd never noticed that I was British, and that she loved my accent and that I look like Paul McCartney. I wonder whether she thinks all British people look like Paul McCartney.

I went to the bank. They claimed that SWIFT is only a European thing and that they had no SWIFT number. This is obviously untrue, since I'd sent money from England to that very branch myself. I think I may find another bank.

Rio says there should be a Barbie doll which says "Calculus is fun! Let's go shopping!"