My dog, who is healing from an injury, escaped from his pen (meant to limit his activity) and climbed up the stairs, for the second time. He wanted to hang out in my room, so I was willing to grant him asylum. Except the only problem is that he started complaining at 4am, and so I had to carry him all the way back down the stairs and put him in his pen. And now I am sleepy today. I would say I am not very robust against sleep disturbances or deprivations. It's very easy for one off day to ruin the workweek. So here I am, up groggy around noon, but I'm still going to try to make the best of the work day today.
I've been learning a lot of Vietnamese lately, so here's a factoid: words that end in -ui vs words that end in -uy have slightly different pronunciation. Note that in Vietnamese the "i" and "y" sounds are the same. But here comes the rule: If a word ends in -ui, you put emphasis on pronouncing the u for a longer period of time, and if there's an accent mark (always written over the u per Vietnamese spelling rules), you use it on the u. But if it ends in -uy, you put emphasis on pronouncing the y for a longer period of time, and if there's an accent mark (which will always be written over the u), you use it on the y.
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