  to the brave souls who wasted every minute of your personal development trying to figure out foreign (the descriptor is purely relative) languages, you have been duly granted with a nice alphabet on your exam slip. hopefully, the first one. i hear alice has done very well. (along with those really gifted people in our class who got promoted to hcl last year. i think all aced. ) congratulations! the ridiculous class people bought a fish paradise (a trendy new age word for "enclosure"). today, i am proud to inform you that this humble new circus for aquatic life has been colonised by a grand total of one shrimp, the length of which is about the size of my pinky. anyway, i am going to make myself a midnight snack of some sort. gurgle gurgle. 
