K, Wordpress turned out to be unbelievably bad, so I'm back here again.

In other news, I've managed to work FORWARD in time back to just three pages before the point where I was on November 28. There is hope yet.

Seriously, stop fawning over teens who coming suicide, whatever their excuse is. Teenage drama isn't a risk factor in suicide; a culture that validates suicide is. The best way to prevent teen suicide is this: keep them from drugs and alcohol, keep them from easy access to lethal methods, emphasize impulse control, and deprecate suicide. And for fk's sake stop blaming suicide on others. It's either a mental illness or a personal choice, not something someone made you do.

There ought to be just one name for all the people who believe that there is one and only one God, that he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and that he calls us to leave what we have and what we want and serve others.

Sudden realization that all the handsomest guys at work are Indian. (And by this I mean Pardeep and Jaswinder. Don't get any ideas.)

Languages to learn next: Tagalog, Arabic, Finnish. Not necessarily in that order.

Mueed: Tagalog is good. I loved learning it.

Shelley: I want to learn Chinese, since so many people speak it

Me: Chinese would be good. There is a lot of archaeology and history in China. I'm thinking Tagalog just because we have so many Filipinos at work. And I hope to be their boss.

Shelley: Yes I figured something like that. My work is actually really multicultural, at least when it comes to the younger set of people

Me: The Home Depot is consistently on the list of Canada's 100 Best Diversity Employers or whatever they call it. They give us cakes that say "Diversity" on them and stuff. But in practice the diversity is primarily India and Philippines.

Suvi-Maarit: There might not that much use of Finnish in Canada?

Me: Not unless I want to date hockey players. But now that I've seen it, the challenge of it is tempting.

Suvi-Maarit: I´ll bet Finnish ice hockey players are quite popular (as well all other nationalities who play in that NHL level).

Me: I don't watch hockey myself but I know they have a few. Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu... and that's about all I can think of.

Suvi-Maarit: Teemu has already returned to Finland and Saku has finnished his career to my understanding (or is just about to do it). But I am pretty sure that there are younger and rising stars playing in Canada.

Me: Yeah, by the time I would hear about them they'd have to be legends.