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[fj]

Haven't heard the first of my given names in its English pronunciation so much since I left the U.S.-based school I attended Medellin, Colombia, halfway through fourth grade.

I am not cocktail-partying on it, though. I kind of still expect to.

My namesake seems to bring such destruction to Jamaica.

We left for the Netherlands, by the way, where I was put in fourth grade. If I recall correctly, since the school in Colombia programmed the school year along the calendar year, and the school in Wolfheze did it along the academic year, I must have spent something like fifteen months in fourth grade.

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[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

Remind me to not let you navigate, hon. F hit Bermuda, not Jamaica.

[fj.livejournal.com]

I want points for at least getting the general area correct.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, not really, as Bermuda isn't even in the Caribbean. No points for you.

[fj.livejournal.com]

It is from this angle here.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Is that new math? From that angle, is Mexico part of South America?

[fj.livejournal.com]

Latin America

[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

Well, OK, compared to say, the distance between the Earth and the Sun, you're close. But I still won't let you navigate on any road trip.

[mangosteen]

So what is the Dutch pronounciation? fa-bee-AHN?

[fj.livejournal.com]

No. I have give up on trying to represent Dutch in Enlglish writing, except in the most dire of circumstances. Ask me when you see me in person.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I must have spent something like fifteen months in fourth grade.

Better than 15 years, anyway.

[fj.livejournal.com]

It always ends up being about your experiences, doesn't it?

[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate it when they insist on being the center of attention?

[fj.livejournal.com]

And always with such things you'd rather not know, even.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Hon, I sometimes feel as if I've spent fifty years in fourth grade.