feeling too stupid to live right now.

I have geography dyslexia! I swear! Aren't there any quizzes on, say, world literature?

Penny-- would poetry be easier?

raising eyebrow at Am-Chau.

I see though your attempt to bring more geography into my life! Unfortunately, I have to go back to work now, or I'd go right into that link and kick some ass.

walking away with all the dignity of a cat that's just fallen off a windowsill.

grins at Penny

I do my best. However, I linked that before I read any of the 'poems' concerned. We may be more in 'doggeral' territory (I think it's somewhere in Asia, but I couldn't be sure.)

West Africa is very hard. Because there is an Equitoreal Guinea; a Guinea; and a Guinea Bissau. I did get Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana right, because famous people come from there, and the Gambia, because there are not many countries shapes like a snake. And Burkina Faso, because how can you forget a country whose main city is Ougadougou?

Southeast Asia I did pretty well, and most of the rest of Africa is big countries. For several years of my childhood, I would get 48/50 on state tests, because I couldn't for the life of me distinguish between Kansas and Nebraska. Now I'm an adult, I realize there's no good reason to distinguish between them, except for college basketball purposes.

Cindy, Bahrain was the almost invisible island dot just above Qatar.

I went back and figured it out later, after I saw posts. That dot looked like it turned yellow after I filled in Qatar, and it tricked me. Tricksey Bahrain.

I got 110 out of 130 on the SE Asian quiz. That was a pleasant surprise. The US state one should have been easy for US-ers, because the right one was always a pretty obvious choice, but I wouldn't expect unAmericans to know that. Nobody should feel badly about that one.

I got 100 out of 150 on the N. Africa quiz. *hangs head* I didn't try the others. I was ashamed enough of that one.

ooh, ohh, can I namedrop descendants of famous people? Thanks to my private high school, I have met: Alvaro de Orleans-Bourbon (no joke), Ben Walton (grandson of Sam). Ivanka Trump was a contemporary of my brother. And a great-grandson of FDR is an excellent classical archaeologist I know, and a really nice guy, too, who is very sensitive about his last name.

I was excellent at geography in the 7th grade. I've forgotten a lot.

*nails flea to thread*

flea - best wishes on your pregnancy. Here's hoping for an easy time for you and a happy and healthy flealette! I keep missing the opportunity or waiting for the topic to reappear in Natter and so far, my timing has sucked. So there. Also? September 4 is my half birthday.

*removes nails*

I can't even figure out all the states on the map.

Not a big map fan, and perfectly happy to have a general idea and look up the specifics when I need them. Borders are mutable, and I only have so much space in my brain pan.

Ow! Stigmata!

For some reason, it's South America that mystifies me most. I am SO old-world-centric.