Ode to Katie

Do you want to know who made me do it? (Start a blog, that is.) Katie. Or, as some extremely tactful people down the hall like to call her, tall girl. She is, admittedly, quite tall but I wouldn't say her height is her defining characteristic. She's an anomaly. Hard to place in a category. She wears pretty ruffly blouses tucked into high waisted skirts but kicks back in baby blue Uggs. She has a bachelor in fine arts but is returning to university for law. She plays basketball and cycles with a helmet. She hates Harry Potter and loves Mormon blogs. She knows New York almost as well as she knows Vancouver. In fact, she knows quite a lot about nearly everything. Google and her are like this.

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Recently at work we were discussing the importance of a general knowledge of politics and after confessing my ignorance of even an elementary comprehension of it, she cleared the whiteboard and drew a diagram of the Canadian political spectrum. Conservatives and the Green Party were at opposite ends. NDP was left of centre, Bloc Quebecois right, and the Liberals were somewhere in the middle.

Underneath Conservatives she wrote:

• religion
• business
• money
• anti-gay
• ECONOMY!

Underneath NDP she wrote:

• socialist
• health care
• welfare
• gay

Above everything:

Alliance + Progressive Conservatives = Conservatives

Alliance = CRAZY

Stephen Harper, our blue eyed Prime Minister, is crazier than Bush, said Katie. And that is why I follow her advice. Because she knows.