A Fishsnatcher Apprehended... and more!

I went in to work Monday, and Gordie was GONE!!

Gordie is a much beloved (and slightly neurotic) betta that resides in the office for entertainment reasons. He's my pal. Anyway, he was GONE Monday. Gone!! The bowl and everything. Obviously, my personal inquisition started immediately, even to the point of contacting former employees. I wanted my fish back, and I wanted him back like yesterday. No one had any information Monday.

I was sad.

Tuesday, I cornered the owner and demanded (albeit politely) any information as to the whereabouts of MY fish. To which he responded... "oh. Was that your fish?"... As it happens, his daughter, who is temporarily helping out with clerical work, TOOK HIM HOME! So I tracked her down, and she has promised to return my fish.

I haven't seen her since. I want my fish BACK!!


Random information for your perusal...

49 words for snow and ice from West Greenlandic

(This word list is taken from a book on West Greenlandic grammar is almost certainly not comprehensive. )

'sea-ice' siku (in plural = drift ice)
'pack-ice/large expanses of ice in motion' sikursuit, pl. (compacted drift ice/ice field = sikut iqimaniri)
'new ice' sikuliaq/sikurlaaq (solid ice cover = nutaaq.)
'thin ice' sikuaq (in plural = thin ice floes)
'rotten (melting) ice floe' sikurluk
'iceberg' iluliaq (ilulisap itsirnga = part of iceberg below waterline)
'(piece of) fresh-water ice' nilak
'lumps of ice stranded on the beach' issinnirit, pl.
'glacier' (also ice forming on objects) sirmiq (sirmirsuaq = Inland Ice)
'snow blown in (e.g. doorway)' sullarniq
'rime/hoar-frost' qaqurnak/kanirniq/kaniq
'frost (on inner surface of e.g. window)' iluq
'icy mist' pujurak/pujuq kanirnartuq
'hail' nataqqurnat
'snow (on ground)' aput (aput sisurtuq = avalanche)
'slush (on ground)' aput masannartuq
'snow in air/falling' qaniit (qanik = snowflake)
'air thick with snow' nittaalaq (nittaallat, pl. = snowflakes; nittaalaq nalliuttiqattaartuq = flurries)
'hard grains of snow' nittaalaaqqat, pl.
'feathery clumps of falling snow' qanipalaat
'new fallen snow' apirlaat
'snow crust' pukak
'snowy weather' qannirsuq/nittaatsuq
'snowstorm' pirsuq/pirsirsursuaq
'large ice floe' iluitsuq
'snowdrift' apusiniq
'ice floe' puttaaq
'hummocked ice/pressure ridges in pack ice' maniillat/ingunirit, pl.
'drifting lump of ice' kassuq (dirty lump of glacier-calved ice = anarluk)
'ice-foot (left adhering to shore)' qaannuq
'icicle' kusugaq
'opening in sea ice imarnirsaq/ammaniq (open water amidst ice = imaviaq)
'lead (navigable fissure) in sea ice' quppaq
'rotten snow/slush on sea' qinuq
'wet snow falling' imalik
'rotten ice with streams forming' aakkarniq
'snow patch (on mountain, etc.)' aputitaq
'wet snow on top of ice' putsinniq/puvvinniq
'smooth stretch of ice' manirak (stretch of snow-free ice = quasaliaq)
'lump of old ice frozen into new ice' tuaq
'new ice formed in crack in old ice' nutarniq
'bits of floating' naggutit, pl.
'hard snow' mangiggal/mangikaajaaq
'small ice floe (not large enough to stand on)' masaaraq
'ice swelling over partially frozen river, etc. from water seeping up to the surface' siirsinniq
'piled-up ice-floes frozen together' tiggunnirit
'mountain peak sticking up through inland ice' nunataq
'calved ice (from end of glacier)' uukkarnit
'edge of the (sea) ice' sinaaq