Fetian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:06 amI'm not at all confident on my submission there in the first place, nor on my essay, so we'll see what kind of marks I get. Uuughhhh. At least the lowest scores of everything will get dropped at the end of class so it probably won't end up affecting my grade at all, but if I get dinged that does remove some of my safety net.
Full marks on both! (I'm starting to suspect this is a gut class)
No DIMs this month, can't afford them -- but I have bought the yearly rose (/plant) and that should get here in a little over a week!
Also!
Proof the grapevine is still alive!!
As of yesterday, Oz is suddenly eating much more food. This is heartening and also worrying -- her thyroid medication might need to be adjusted, or it might be a sign of something else wrong. Going to keep an eye on her for a bit but hopefully maybe she's just, getting better and eating a normal amount of food again
Puds! They are stuffed with taco meat, onion, cilantro, and citrus juice (which were leftover taco ingredients from a couple nights ago) and topped with dubliner cheese
The Emperor's New Clothes but it's about the stock market and how the money involved doesn't exist
The Emperor's Net Worth
(what's a gut class)
An easy class you can put minimum effort in to and still get an A
why's it named after intestines
I had no idea so I looked it up and etymonline has this:
Meaning "easy college course" is student slang from 1916, probably from obsolete slang sense of "feast" (the connecting notion is "something that one can eat up").
Alright! For now I'm going with "keit" as the species name and giving it an irregular plural so I can keep ketal. I'm also keeping teket (/anket/unket/raket) but have changed several other words that used to use the "ket" phoneme to "kei"
I also finally got around to fixing a few mistakes in the dictionary, and designating every verb as either transitive or intransitive which is very hard for my poor little monolingual english brain. But a fun side-effect of this decision to have a strict transitivity system is that like, "to stop" is an intransitive verb so there will have to be a different word for "to stop [something]"
Tomorrow I want to come up with a 'to cause to be' verb that will let you functionally transitive-ify the intransitive verbs, and the grammar around doing that.
I'm not 100% happy with the species name but we'll see if it doesn't grow on me.