Scene: We're at Pei Wei eating dinner. A Natalie Merchant song starts playing on the speakers.

Beeki: Hey! This sounds like Natalie Imbruglia! (Pronounced with a hard 'G' sound.)

Cach: No it doesn't. It only sounds like one person.

Beeki and Cach together: Natalie Merchant!

Beeki: That's what I said!

Cach: No, you said Natalie Imbruglia. And you don't pronounce the 'g.'

Beeki: What is she, French?

Cach: No, Australian.

Beeki: What, they don't say their 'g's in Australia? Like, "'ooday, mate?"

Cach: ... ... ...

Beeki: See, now that you know I'm crazy it humors me to tell you all the crazy things that go through my head.


Then after dinner I cracked open my fortune cookie. All it said was "Pork" in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Beeki pointed out that my fortune was probably actually on the other side, but I thought it was funnier to get a fortune that just said "Pork." Ponder that one.