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✿ This weekend was all right, but not what I would usually prefer. Rain kept me home on Saturday, and smoke kept me home on Sunday. The forest fire smoke wasn't as bad as it was around the beginning of the month, but we're still getting a lot blowing in from the north of the province and east. The fire problem is province-wide, but in Saskatchewan it's even worse, and over 4750km has burned so far. The Red Cross hasn't put out an official call for donations at this time, but 13,000 evacuees - that's a pretty damn big number for them to deal with.

✿ ... As for myself, my area is unaffected at this time, aside from the smoke that I mentioned before. It's not so bad if you stay inside, but that sure is a bummer. And while I'm healthy, not everyone is, and this stuff could affect some other people pretty badly.

✿ Wow, I totally did not intend to start this entry off on a downer note. I guess this stuff has just been on my mind a lot lately.

✿ Anyway! In completely unrelated news, I have an account on Duolingo, username is yuuago as always. If any of you want to add me there, go ahead. Right now I'm only working on Norwegian, though I might pick up another language eventually (though I'm not sure what). I've been going through the lessons very slowly; I don't want to run out of them. And taking in too much all at once tends to be a little overwhelming and I usually forget things easily when I do that. Anyway, so far it seems to be pretty useful for drills, though I don't know how useful it will be for anything else. The upside is that it gets me in the mood to work on Norwegian, and that's the important part.