Promiseland

[Fetian]

The CBD has arrived! Luckily Oz doesn't seem to mind the smell of it, which is a good sign in terms of her actually taking it. It's taken her about a week to stop eating her food so far, so I'll give about that long before starting dosing her, unless she goes off the food sooner than that. That's possible -- she's only kind-of-sort-of eating it now. That could be that her stomach has shrunk, though, so I'm not super worried and am somewhat optimistic.

I have bleach on my head, going to leave it in for a few hours before doing a second round and then I'll tone it.

I've been poking at a game-making language/IDE this afternoon, but I'm pretty out of brain now so will put off doing any more of that until later. None of my youtubes have updated today with anything I want to watch, which is a bummer, but I've got plenty of backlog, so I guess I'll do some of that.

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I learned last night that Davey Wreden (creator of Stanley Parable et al) (and his brother DougDoug) are originally from Sacramento, which doesn't mean anything but is kind of neat. I wonder what part

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I actually don't know that Davey is originally from Sacramento, I know DougDoug was born in Sacramento and there are hints that they spent some part of their lives in Sacramento, but no conclusive details.

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Very tired and could honestly go to sleep right now, but I have bleach in my hair for a second round so, like. Need to wait and then wash that out.

First round went for about three hours and got my hair to a dirty-ish orange

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Oz ate her breakfast pretty reasonably, but has refused to touch her dinner, so. She might just still be full

Tomorrow I need to record a couple arcadia things and throw toner and dye in my hair. It's come out pretty light and I think I'll get a good colour out of it

For a long time now, I've struggled with the issue of, having too much external stimulus and not enough brain down-time, so tonight I've reinstalled leechblock and I'm going to try to enforce periods of time of just, being and not reading or watching or refreshing something. We'll see how it goes

Going to finish this video then go get ready for bed. And then bed, obviously.

[Fetian]

I'm trying not to judge my classmates, but it's clear that we're also reaching the point where people are realising (or should be realising) that you have to actually pay attention to be able to do the coursework. By now you should be able to read and write hiragana and katakana (even if you need to be referencing the charts for them), regardless of how much we've covered in "in class". We were told to work on it on our own, so like, do that.

I'm also realising that some of these people have like, memorised set phrases without knowing what the components of those phrases mean -- like knowing that "おげんきですか" ("ogenkidesuka") means "How are you?" without knowing that it actually means "Energetic are you?", that "です" is the is/am verb, that "か" (in this instance) is marking the sentence as a question, that Japanese drops subjects ("you", here) like it's going out of style,

And you come away with "私はです" means "I am", 私 means "I", は must mean "am", です is just something you put at the end of a sentence...

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Like.

Trying not to judge. We're all learning, I just happen to have started at a slightly higher level than most everyone else. It's just when you're so confidently wrong about something that, to me, seems so basic. Maybe language courses should start with a brief intro to linguistics.

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Sigh.

So on page 16 we are supposed to just guess how to spell these names using hiragana?

Given that every question we've had throughout the class so far has involved these names, you should probably already know them by now, but yeah. You're supposed to 'guess' how to spell a Japanese name in hiragana, because there'll be a 1-to-1 correlation between the consonant-vowel pairs in the romanised name and the hiragana letters

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Now someone's shared the answer key

Going to be very funny watching people struggle later on when they're refusing to build the foundation now

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I have toned my hair and now there is dye in it. I'm doing a blue over all but the front, and then I'm going to do a red/orange over the front and blending into the back. I did also get a bit of a gradient with the bleach, so it should turn out interesting, if greenish

It has been very windy today! A tree branch came down on Erik's car (luckily it did minimal damage, unfortunately it did any damage at all) and a little bit of fence has come down (but it should be repairable by us). Storms are supposed to continue, so hopefully no more damage is done before it's all over, touch wood.

ash and I watched a very long youtube video about Deadly Premonition and then we watched an Um Actually and then he went to bed. I will be chilling while I do dye stuff, at midnight I'll update anki cards with stuff that had the homework answers on them, and then I'll go to bed so I can be up for class tomorrow. I am a little burnt out on language learning! Trying to just do bare minimum stuff for a bit so I can hopefully be back into it when the class starts getting into stuff I'll struggle with more

Oz seems to be doing pretty well on the new food -- no throwing up, she's eating most of it and letting me sleep through the night. She's showing nervousness, which I hope the CBD will help with, and she's not enthusiastic about the food, but she is eating. I feel reasonably safe concluding there is something in the other food she's sensitive to, and the vet is going to say it's the chicken but I have doubts.

Oh, I have a couple of Arcadia things I need to do tonight, so I'll get those done. Then the chilling &c.

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I'm coming into this class with a lot of advantages that many of my classmates don't have. I've already studied some Japanese. I have a solid general background in languages and language learning. I have some level of inherent ability in picking up language stuff. I don't have any other classes or a job and can spend as much time focusing on my studies as I want and need. So I try not to judge! Not being good at, or fully understanding, any of the things we've learned so far is completely understandable!

But some of this, just. It's hard not to judge when it seems like people aren't actually trying and just want to be fed the answers. Especially when it's really clear that some of these people aren't paying attention in class.