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on May 5, 2018

I'm finally completely moved in and have no shopping or chores to do. (Added insult to injury by shattering my cellphone screen yesterday.) Taking an actual day off before I start work tomorrow. I decided to unwind by drawing.

I hope the local volunteer guy doesn't seem insulting or stereotypical. I mean him to be candid and helpful. I love a local accent anywhere I go, and I've never equated any accent with ignorance – even people I plain can't understand (whether from Appalachia, the deep south, Great Lakes, Australia, New England, or wherever). In addition to accents, a lot of places have dialects, which takes more getting used to. I briefly lived in Harkers Island, NC, which has a slew of vocabulary and phrases I simply didn't know. I grew up in northern WV, and when I had college roommates from southern WV, I had to ask them to define quite a number of phrases for me. I also found out only recently, that using the word "burm" for the side of the road, is WV/OH/PA terminology not used outside the region. (I heard it so often, I never knew it was regional.)