Then I read an Urdu word that I didn't even know ahead of time!!!!!!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Me: I deciphered a word in Urdu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good thing "zebra" is pretty much the same in every language.

Diana: You are reading about zebras in Urdu. You are not so boring are you?

Me: I'm not actually reading about zebras, I just have a picture book with Urdu and English labels. So I figured out "zebra" and then "cow". Writing it myself is gonna be a whole nother can of worms. But I can't make out "elephant" even though I know how to say it. This script makes no sense to me.

Diana: Well hopefully elephants won't come up in conversation next time you are writing a letter to someone in Urdu.

Me: I don't think I can get by on just "cow" and "zebra" though.

Diana: You could in some crowds. Containing certain animals...

Me: Yeah, like if my plane crashes in the Serengeti, and I and a Pakistani are the only two survivors, and we have to stalk the gnus and zebras for survival.

Laundry in the useless dryer for the third freakin time and I'm so tired... Better watch the Urdu alphabet jingle again to keep myself awake.

Landlord comes by to pick up the rent from those who pay cash. Sneaks in (not allowed, mind you, she can't go into a rental unit without our permission), goes downstairs, gets rent from Downstairs Roommate, avoids me sitting in living room, doesn't even try to talk to Upstairs Roommates whom I'm demanding she evict since Female Roommate wiped her ass with my facecloth, and sneaks out again. Seriously if that's your people skills you really need to not be a landlord.

Winnipeg is almost cut off from the world by overflow on various highways, but we're still comfortably high and dry with our amazing transit, our palatial library, and our excellent ballet company opening a show this week. My life: you know you want it!

I created a new, extra-secure password by combining science and the Bible. Ain't nobody gonna think of that! Unfortunately it's also really hard to memorize. Can't win them all.

Why am I awake? Why did I bring the laptop cord upstairs? Why doesn't the dog ever get insomnia the same days I do?

Me: Writing Urdu is hard.

Ahsan: Not for a urdu person.

Me: I have a hard time recognizing the letters when they're linked together. Also the difference in sounds between some of the letters is not clear to my untrained ear.

Ahsan: Yeah it is a very hard task . But 'PRACTICE' makes everything perfect.

Me: Exactly. The library has lots of books in Urdu from children to adult so once I figure out the writing I should be able to start picking up some vocabulary.

19:53: I need to go to the library and the grocery store but I don't have time for both. Think think think...

21:30: Sitting on the couch with eight library books and a bowl of quinoa for supper because there's always quinoa in my house.

Conclusion: quinoa makes people more educated.

It's raining and I have three hours left to finish my library book on which I have made no progress since yesterday 22:00. So I'm not going to watch the raising of the floodgates. Eh, there's always next year.

Walk into Manitoba Healthcare: 11 people ahead of me. Crap... 15 minutes later: walk out with new healthcare card. Manitoba Government service rocks!

Fustian.

Floodway gates going up today at 6 pm. I'm gonna try to go see them. Also, it's 27 C warmer in Winnipeg than in Hay River. "Just sayin'". LOL

Light on: so tired I can't even watch YouTube. Light off: so awake I can't even blink.

K, it's really hard to sleep with a dog staring at you for three hours straight.

Hypothesis: I'd read faster if I wasn't watching documentaries on YouTube at the same time.

If only there was a way to test it...

I inquired into Twitter rules to try and guess why my friend was suspended, and apparently one of the criteria that make you a spammer is if you have a lot more followees than followers. What???? But I have 4.35 times as many followees as followers! Is it my fault that news outlets don't follow the people who follow them? I can't very well expect Peter Mansbridge and Al-Jazeera to follow me back . What an unfair rule.

Never thought I'd see the day I'd feel bad for George W. Bush.

Me, to a coworker I just met: So where were you born? (Ed.: only one person on my team was born in Canada.)

Coworker: China.

Me: Like, where in China?

Coworker: In the south.

Me: But where in the south? It's a big place.

Coworker: Close to Hong Kong.


Ok. So I go home and look up what's close to Hong Kong in China. Answer: Shenzhen. K, see, that would have meant way more to me than "close to Hong Kong." He must think Canadians are totally ignorant.

The server is like a whore's pants on payday.