ELSEWHERE

And that's everything coined! Tomorrow I make up a grammar document to send along with the torch, and do a final pass on the English translation to smooth it up. I also take Cael to the vet to get his rabies booster, and I need to do a couple pages of Japanese homework by end of Sunday. I did get this week's quiz done, though -- missed one question and I think it might have been one that seemed to have a typo in it, that confused me, but I probably will not challenge it just because blaaaa

I was talking to my cousin a bit yesterday and today, she had a baby last month! She sent a picture of both the baby and herself and god does she look different from the last time I saw her.

And there was an announcement from the professor -- next week we have class on both Monday and Wednesday, and the week following we won't have any classes. The week after that is the final, I think, so I guess next week is all we're doing

Today I did finally bring the SAD lamp in, and I've also grabbed a couple more blankets, as we're now getting to mid-40s at night

Anyway, it's gotten late so I'm going to go to bed now

Got the grammar notes written and the needed lexicon listed, just need to clean it up and put it on a webpage then I can send my torch off to the person running the relay! I am, really annoyed with said person, they have not been behaving great through all of this. Not like, egregiously, but they got confused by a person wanting to join the relay with the language "What" and yelled at them multiple times, and they have been nagging me for updates through my turn in the relay even though I already keep the thread updated with my progress, among some other less than great behaviours. I will not be participating in a relay run by them again in the future, at least not for the foreseeable. They are a teenager (I didn't know this when I joined, though I don't know that knowing would have changed anything) so maybe they will chill a bit in a few years

Cael had a vet appointment today, just to get his rabies booster. When I take Oz to the vet, I have her carrier in my lap and open the top so I can comfort her during the drive. It's safer to have carriers in the back seat because of the air bag but she (and Cael) sound so incredibly sad and it breaks my heart a little for them to be trapped in a box with no one to help them, so I prefer for them to be up front with me. Unfortunately, Cael does not fit in that carrier, and the carrier he does fit in is honestly too big to be sitting on someone's lap even if the top opened. I tried to have him in the back during one of the trips to the vet and he yowled the whole time, so on the way back I had the carrier in my lap

Anyway, so I have been harness training him off-and-on since he was a kitten, and he doesn't mind it much, so today I had him in my lap out of the carrier, keeping control of him with the harness. He stayed in my lap the whole time, though on the way back was pretty keen on trying to slip down into the well in front of the passenger seat but I was easily able to keep control of him. He did make some sad noises but largely handled the experience better than he did in the carrier

I would really like to acclimate him more to drives

On the way home we passed by the neighbourhood's little library which had a sign on it and tape crossed over the front, so after dropping Cael off and giving him a treat, I walked back over to it. It turns out that the owners are going to install a new one, so it's not accepting books until then. I will need to keep an eye out, because I still want to start bringing some of the books I want to get rid of over to it -- I am very glad that they're not just shutting it down

After that I sat down with lunch/dinner and worked on getting the grammar &c written out, and example sentences for each grammar point. I wanted to get that done before the evening so ash could look at it before he went to bed -- I want some feedback on if I forgot anything that needs explained -- and when I was done I sent it to him and then came out to the living room to play video games while he looked at it. He was in fact too tired to look at it too closely, so I will probably send it off to the person running the relay without his feedback, but I am still curious of anything he'd have to say about it even so

Then we watched taskmaster while eating brownies and ice cream, and then Let's Game it Out, and then a Danny Gonzales, and then ash went to bed. I am, to be honest, feeling kind of under the weather and I'll be really annoyed if I'm getting sick.

Tomorrow I need to do whatever remains to do for the conlang relay, and Japanese homework. I'm also volunteered to make breakfast-lunch for ash and Erik (and myself), pumpkin-pie-pancakes and scrambled eggs.

Alright, gonna eat some food and hope maybe that makes me feel better

BROTHER.

CHILL.

Like am I insane??

Am I insane??

AM I INSANE??

?????????

Not pictured: The THREE TIMES this person nagged me about progress through the week!! FUCK OFF

Well it's done now and I am never speaking to this person again

I've done some very minor snooping and a. this person is 15 years old and I don't think that needs any more remarking upon

b. They're in Australia which is probably why they're freaking out so much about the deadline at what is by the stated UTC deadline almost an entire day before it's due, because again they're 15 and probably didn't notice that they made that the deadline-timezone by importing all the rules from the previous relay. Depending on where in Australia it was twenty-to-11 when they sent that "I need the torch now" message (it also could have been 8 PM, so like even if they had said 'I'm in Australia so we need to observe Australia Time' it still wouldn't mean much)

But my dude if you want people to observe a specific timezone you are Going To Have To Tell Them

Meanwhile the thread has a number of people talking about finishing/submitting their torches on Sunday, my time, so I wonder if this person was also yelling at them in their PMs or if I'm just special somehow

Lord, they didn't not notice the time, they just added (in a spoilered message to quote the previous relay's rules, that didn't indicate there was any change to said rules that people needed to watch for) "with the caveat that I will not be able to send or receive any torch between 10:00 and 00:00 UTC, so please send your torches before then, and expect the new ones after then", which I would have assumed meant 10 PM but must mean 10 AM, and means that they expect people to submit their torches thirteen hours early, and then for the torch to just sit between people not getting worked on for even longer than that.

I had sent them a message vis a vis what I believed to be the deadline but I've deleted that, I do not want to talk to this person

Frankly if handling the torches is such a burden to you maybe you should just have people pass the torches on to the next person in line directly, and cc you in the PM