HealthCanada, Rent, Facebook, Karate

Well, I spoke with HealthCanada. They told me what they needed for them to find my records. I gave them the info, and I'm waiting on a response.

I spoke with my superintendant about getting behind on rent. He's willing to work out a payment plan, sounds like, as long as I get the name of a Welfare worker. That's still gonna be a challenge. We had to reapply for Welfare, because they only keep you on record for three months unless you're collecting money. We reapplied three or four days ago with no response. It's never taken more than a day before. Got two days to get a response, but it sounds like all we need is a response.

This is a bit of a gross topic. I made my own dry quips about it in my head, which I'd love to share, but right now, I'm a little too edgey to treat this any way other than with utter seriousness in regard to speaking publicly.

I sent friend requests to all the members of I Hate Toucans on Facebook, and was rejected by all but one, and that person unfriended me. While this sounds like rational behaviour, it's actually pretty uncommon on Facebook. Most people are friend-sponges, and will use any slight excuse to fire off a request, or to accept one, to buffer up their friend count and make them look more impressive. I've had a person initiate a friend request on Facebook, then dodge me on the bus when we were the only two people on there. And it's especially odd that someone accepted initially, and then later decided to unfriend me.

I won a game of Scrabble on Facebook recently. My win rate has come up to almost 40%! That sounds bad, but I'm only playing one person right now, and she's pretty pro. She really creamed me a lot when we started, so I've had to fight pretty hard to make a comeback.

I couldn't get my black stripe yesterday in karate, because I fell asleep... Urg... And my rival got his! And a red stripe! That puts him one ahead of me! And I didn't manage to get tested for my blue stripe this week! Well, I've got counseling at an awkward time tomorrow, but I think I can still get there... Get my blue stripe, then next Tuesday my black, then on Wednesday my green... Put me two ahead! You can only graduate to the next belt level on the last Thursday of every month, though, so I might not gain any permanent speed if we both graduate at the same time. Then we'd both start at yellow at the same time with the same number of stripes.

Got my B12. Cross your fingers that this works!