New Brunswick

[Trina]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Angela Boyko <aboyko at n...> wrote:
> Here is another pet peeve of mine since going online: the assumption
> that I am from New Brunswick, New Jersey. My sigs used to say just 
New Brunswick, and I would get lots of e-mail telling me how great 
N.J. is. Now, I've never been there and I'm sure there are lots of 
nice places to visit. But I am Canadian, proudly so, and so my sig is 
now more specific. It doesn't bother me that most people don't know 
where I am, it bothers me when they assume something that's not true.


I would have never thought of New Jersey, Angela, as I am somewhat 
geographically literate.  Of course, when I was in college and told 
people (from Illinois, no less) that I was from Washington, I got two 
standard replies.  1)DC?  and, then, before I could finish my 
sentence, "No, Wash--" 2)State?  When I said I was from IL, the 
response was "Where's that?"  After a while I just gave up and said I 
was from Peoria.  People had usually heard of Peoria.  

Trina, who hope Harry Potter will play in Peoria