Moments of Insanity in a Strange New World

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

so my boyfriend is moving home

That sucks. He is going to be moving back to Indiana to look for two jobs and start sending me money to further along my divorce and his immigration paperwork. It makes sense in a life reality kind of way but I've been living with him for three years and that's going to be really strange to be alone again. Not to mention I'll miss him. I think it will be a good thing for him though, he's wallowing up here in Canada - can't work, can't go to school, can't drive.

He wants to help support me and the kids and I commend him for that but it's soooo easy to chicken out now. I can feel it just inside of me, that no pleasedon't go kind of fear. This time we don't have a choice though as I'll be on welfare soon and can barely make it as it is.

It will be al ong, hard road but at least he can help me get on my feet.

On the bright side, I think I have a Union gig coming up and there is an opening at Stratford Festival that I applied for today - working at Stratford Festival would be AMAZING.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

My genetic heritage - how cool can this be?

Well my Father recently sent his results from his genetic heritage testing. You can get it done at http://www.dnatribes.com

I have a native match and a global match. The native match is the Top 20 results of native populations that have experienced minimal movement and admixture in the last 2000 years or so. These are your most likely deep ancestral origins.

The global match are a top 20 of a database of global populations, including native peoples and Diaspora groups that expanded and mixed with other ethnicities. This represents my closest genetic relatives today and whose blend of ancestry matches my own.

Remember - this is my Father. If we mixed my Mom into this we would most likely get more European stuff.

NATIVE MATCH
Han (Min Nan, China) - 4.2 out of 4.5
Kathmandu, Nepal - 2.4 out of 4.5
Native Mexican (Metztitlan City, Mexico) - 2.3 out of 4.5
Chol (Northeast Chiapas, Mexico) 2.2 out of 4.5

GLOBAL MATCH
Han (Min Nan, China) - 4.2 out of 4.5
Maori (New Zealand) - 3.6 out of 4.5
Hispanic 3.2

My Dad is a Chinese, Maori and Mexican mutt. What does that make me?

I'm OFF TO NEW ZEALAND BABY! I can go dance with the short aboriginals and claim a Shaman background just like I thought.

Cool.