Arrival
August 22nd, 2006 at 22:25I’m not inclined to blog. I am, for one thing, perplexed by the number of private-life details that folks reveal in their blogs and worried that I’ll end up doing the same thing. I remain concerned, but I’m realizing that a blog will be an efficient, although impersonal, way of updating family, friends, and others about my experiences and research in Canada.
As to that research, I hope to describe it in plain English in an entry later this month. In the meantime, my research proposal (72 KB PDF) can provide a general idea. It is about “public legal education” in Canada, which is abbreviated “PLE” (which is pronounced like “plea”) and more or less synonymous with “community legal education” and is closely related to “public legal information.”
I am in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For the Americans who will be reading this, Edmonton is the capital of Alberta, which is a province (a state-like entity) of Canada, which is a sovereign nation bordering the United States to the north. Edmonton is located just about in the center of Alberta, a little over twelve hours by car from Moscow, Idaho, and roughly 460 miles due north of Missoula, Montana. Of course, 460 miles is 740 kilometers to a Canadian (and to U.S. federal executive agencies).
For the Canadians who will be reading this, thanks for letting me in.
September 9th, 2006 at 19:07
[…] I mentioned metric in my first post (in passing at least). Clickhappy readers who’ve seen that post will have discovered that the U.S. federal government has been metric, as a matter of law if not yet as a matter of fact, since 1975. But, in Canada they’ve got real-life metrication, which pervades nearly everything as far as I can tell so far. This is one of two aspects of Canadian life that I can’t seem to assimilate to. The other is the inability to swipe your own credit card except at the gas station. You can, however, swipe your own debit card, and I have not been able to track down whether this is a symptom of Canadians’ mania for debit cards or somehow prescribed by law. […]
January 17th, 2007 at 17:03
[…] This blog is fighting a spell of mission drift. I anticipated this in post #1 and, what’s worse, readership has been declining since the drifting began (around Christmastime). So, with this post I will put myself to work on getting back to basics: public legal education. […]
March 19th, 2007 at 20:28
[…] I hesitate to tail off, considering that I’ve got more of a daily readership than ever lately, but I’m afraid that this is best for all of us. I will continue to post as I run across what’s interesting on this continent and as I make my way around it. I will also work on putting together revised goals for this site; my original purpose was to explore my thoughts on public legal education, but I’m now doing that plenty in the article draft and on the other blog. But, at bottom, I’m not inclined to blog. Posted in Special | Leave a Reply […]