Well, I end­ed up pass­ing my bilin­gual test with an A, but a B was nec­es­sary for the job. The grad­ing scale is back­wards (that’s the Canadian gov­ern­ment for you), so an E exemp­tion is high­er than a C is high­er than a B is high­er than an A is high­er than an X fail. At least I now know that I’m offi­cial­ly bilin­gual, just not bilin­gual enough for most gov­ern­ment posi­tions.

This is deli­cious.

So I know this guy, who’s mar­ry­ing this girl, who he met just over half a year ago. They live in dif­fer­ent coun­tries, so he’s mov­ing in with her and her par­ents. There has been a lot of talk going on about this, whether this is a good deci­sion, bad deci­sion, or what­not.

Out of all the facts and con­clu­sions reached, I have to admit that I have no idea whether or not this will work out. Love is a fun­ny thing, and things could go either way. The impor­tant mat­ter is, how­ev­er, the risk involved, in terms of drop­ping school, a job, friends, etc. in order to be with this per­son. I think that if he believes that the risk is worth it, then he should. I’ve nev­er real­ly pro­tect­ed peo­ple from being hurt or mak­ing mis­takes, because I find that pain and mis­takes are often the best teach­ers, and that learn­ing is the high­est form of liv­ing. Generally the only time that I’ll step in is if there is per­ma­nent dam­age, such as a crim­i­nal record. If I actu­al­ly had any say though, I’d sug­gest that he waits at least anoth­er year before mak­ing a deci­sion like this. After all, if he was meant to be with this per­son, what’s the dif­fer­ence of a year or two? Sure it may be ter­ri­ble to be apart, but in the future there’s plen­ty of time, espe­cial­ly if he already “knows” that he’ll be with this per­son for­ev­er. The con­found­ing thing about this sit­u­a­tion though, is that he under­stands all these points, believes that this is a stu­pid deci­sion, and is still going through with it. Any respect I had for his deci­sion is com­plete­ly gone.

As for Litterbox Jen, I’m sick of all the fuck­ing trite, sequa­cious com­ments peo­ple are leav­ing on her entries. It seems like peo­ple just say shit to get atten­tion, espe­cial­ly when try­ing to make her feel bet­ter. When some­one gives a gener­ic com­pli­ment, or shows some sort of false, almost boast­ful over-pro­tec­tive­ness, it just ends up being com­plete­ly mean­ing­less. It does­n’t deal with any sort of issue what­so­ev­er, and to me, ends up demean­ing any oth­er com­ments that are made. I mean, some­one com­ments with some “strong” opin­ions on the addi­tion of spon­sors, and ends up sound­ing like a fuck­ing tool with his exag­ger­at­ed com­pli­ments and god fuck­ing awful pre­ten­tious morals. “you’re bet­ter than that”, jesus fuck­ing christ.