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Mar. 18th, 2026 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressI slept like garbage and it has given all of today a weird vibe.
Okay, actually today was reasonable decent in the actual day of it all. My classes seemed to go well! Students were doing mostly working at their own paces, but also they were actually doing that! I spent my prep knitting, which is not like 100% most effective work choice, but felt good to be doing and is scads better than playing phone games.
And then we had our geometry team meeting with our department head to review our midterm data and talk about things for the future and I got as close as I ever have to crying in front of my boss. Frustration, mostly. It was normal levels of annoying work bullshit until we got to the point where it was like "maybe next year we have a hard deadline of end of q2 [instead of doing the midterm in q3 like we have the last couple years]". And so I ask "would my [SpEd] inclusion classes be expected to take the exact same midterm?" and boss is all "obvs yes" at which point like.......
...I literally cannot teach the Inclusion classes the exact same curriculum at the exact same pace as the mainstream Geometry classes. We are "only" about a week behind right now, but that's because me and my co-teacher have been extremely thoughtful about what we can cut out of each unit and then doing so. The classes just pace slower in general, compounded by needing to spend more time reviewing algebra skills, compounded by needing to spend more time on classroom management and norm-setting and behavior stuff.
So like. Either I give them a midterm where they do piss because they haven't learned some of the stuff being covered, or I give them a midterm where they all do piss because I've rushed everything so fast they can't actually learn it. "oh but you should have high standards of rigor for your students" _yes that's the problem_. If I didn't give a shit if my kids actually learned the material I could get through this stuff snaps easy.
It's just another step on a whole fuck of bullshit we've been having all year(s). Somehow I will make it work, I'm sure. (but first I must...1).
So the end of my work day had me all verklempt and off-kilter, and unfortunately equity team did not really fix the problem (some weeks it is the best meeting I attend, some weeks it's more focused on the depressing business of dragging the rest of the school kicking and screaming into being anti-racist. The work is always good, but sometimes it's more draining than others.)
Played a bunch of phone games. Did not adequetely prep for tomorrow, by which I mean, did fuck_all_ at the school. Gave up at 6 and came home and did manage to bully myself into a PowerHour which helped. I reread the Adventures of Blue Avenger and did a wee bit more knitting and then ate dinner. Played some Stardew after. Now I'm writing these so I can go off to bed in a maybe-timely manner.
I hope you are well and that tomorrow is better for us all (I always hope this second part). I love you.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: It occurs to me that this essay might actually be worth opening up in the tab next to Good Girls Aren't Here and just having both of them permanent features of my computer. I certainly reference it often enough.
Okay, actually today was reasonable decent in the actual day of it all. My classes seemed to go well! Students were doing mostly working at their own paces, but also they were actually doing that! I spent my prep knitting, which is not like 100% most effective work choice, but felt good to be doing and is scads better than playing phone games.
And then we had our geometry team meeting with our department head to review our midterm data and talk about things for the future and I got as close as I ever have to crying in front of my boss. Frustration, mostly. It was normal levels of annoying work bullshit until we got to the point where it was like "maybe next year we have a hard deadline of end of q2 [instead of doing the midterm in q3 like we have the last couple years]". And so I ask "would my [SpEd] inclusion classes be expected to take the exact same midterm?" and boss is all "obvs yes" at which point like.......
...I literally cannot teach the Inclusion classes the exact same curriculum at the exact same pace as the mainstream Geometry classes. We are "only" about a week behind right now, but that's because me and my co-teacher have been extremely thoughtful about what we can cut out of each unit and then doing so. The classes just pace slower in general, compounded by needing to spend more time reviewing algebra skills, compounded by needing to spend more time on classroom management and norm-setting and behavior stuff.
So like. Either I give them a midterm where they do piss because they haven't learned some of the stuff being covered, or I give them a midterm where they all do piss because I've rushed everything so fast they can't actually learn it. "oh but you should have high standards of rigor for your students" _yes that's the problem_. If I didn't give a shit if my kids actually learned the material I could get through this stuff snaps easy.
It's just another step on a whole fuck of bullshit we've been having all year(s). Somehow I will make it work, I'm sure. (but first I must...1).
So the end of my work day had me all verklempt and off-kilter, and unfortunately equity team did not really fix the problem (some weeks it is the best meeting I attend, some weeks it's more focused on the depressing business of dragging the rest of the school kicking and screaming into being anti-racist. The work is always good, but sometimes it's more draining than others.)
Played a bunch of phone games. Did not adequetely prep for tomorrow, by which I mean, did fuck_all_ at the school. Gave up at 6 and came home and did manage to bully myself into a PowerHour which helped. I reread the Adventures of Blue Avenger and did a wee bit more knitting and then ate dinner. Played some Stardew after. Now I'm writing these so I can go off to bed in a maybe-timely manner.
I hope you are well and that tomorrow is better for us all (I always hope this second part). I love you.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: It occurs to me that this essay might actually be worth opening up in the tab next to Good Girls Aren't Here and just having both of them permanent features of my computer. I certainly reference it often enough.
Lights are back on in Cuba
Mar. 18th, 2026 08:00 amlauradi7dwSome oil got through, I guess. I hope the people on dialysis and the people using oxygen concentrators didn't die in the meantime.
cheerful news items
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:26 pmlauradi7dwTeam Venezuela has won the World Baseball Classic.
It looks like there won't be a border wall built through Big Bend National Park in Texas. It may be too early to hope, because DHS does what it wants without any legal backing, but it has at least been postponed, after 130 organizations, millions of Texans (and other folks), and apparently every business in the nearby area heavily lobbied Congress to stop it.
I am making progress on my taxes. I still have questions, but the online chat and phone help people have been intermittently actually helpful.
It looks like there won't be a border wall built through Big Bend National Park in Texas. It may be too early to hope, because DHS does what it wants without any legal backing, but it has at least been postponed, after 130 organizations, millions of Texans (and other folks), and apparently every business in the nearby area heavily lobbied Congress to stop it.
I am making progress on my taxes. I still have questions, but the online chat and phone help people have been intermittently actually helpful.
Little about my day, more about being sad about dance and gender
Mar. 16th, 2026 11:29 pmsorcyresswriiiiite the words
I am very tired and don't wanna write the words.
Work today was pretty good but also hella unsatisfying because there was Serious Bullshit with classroom assignments and needing to last-minute move the classroom. I had like......fifteen minutes of warning in order to pack up my everything I would need for class five and move down to a computer lab. It was awfullllll and I'm not happy about it. Blah.
But focusing on the good stuff...uh....the kids seem to grok the Pythagorean Theorem? That's nice. Tomorrow we're moving into our special rights triangles and it's not totally rubbish as a lesson --we did good work last year! I had a good long talk with my mentee last week about his future (and need to send some networking emails on their behalf). Even though the kids are being forced into super dysregulating situations, they were mostly fine?
And yesterday I got a bunch of things done and also had a nice evening with a friend/comet. I didn't sleep enough, but that's Unfortunately Normal, and at least all my sleep hours were in a bed with the lights off, which is Unfortunately Abnormal right now. I'm working on it?
Went to demo team on Sunday, which was fine, and then dance tonight which was...like...it was pretty decent, both Keira and Beth pick good dances and stuff. But for one of them I was dancing on the larks side with my buddy DJ on the Robin's side. And one of the other dancers made some comment about how we had "switched sides just to confuse her". Which like. Fuck off. Fuck off fuck off fuck offfffff.
I understand that I need to be gracious and kind and help people slowly understand in a non-threatening way but also fuck offff. I know I don't pass. I know I will never pass. I know you don't see me as anything as a woman. But you're wrong and you will never know how absolutely hurtful it is to be told that there is an obvious gender box you think I should be in and therefore if I'm on the lark's side it's "wrong".
It was intermission after, so I didn't have to dissociate for that long, and I could go and sit with my knitting and talk to all the various people who came and sat by me and then Sharon asked me to dance. But it still feels bad. I appreciate that the teachers here are trying to normalize larks and robins1. But the class does not actually get it, and as long as the dancers as a whole are just treating this as "weird names for men and women" nothing is actually going to change.
There's no wrong side to dance on. There is especially no wrong side for me, a nonbinary person to dance on. There is especially no wrong side for anyone to dance on when the role terms are Lark and Robin and have nothing the fuck to do with anyone's gender.
Oh hey, I figured out why I am so tired and draggy and don't wanna write the words. :/
Anyways, I will continue to quietly dance when and where I can with people who are willing to ignore conventions based on what genitals a doctor thought you had when you were born and instead take into consideration, like, who's taller if the dance has an allemande in it. And even that is negotiable.
I'm gonna snuggle Austin and go to bed.
~Sor (they/them)
MOOP!
1: (I am _genuinely thrilled_ that Beth is restating the terms every evening, and also that she is doing a much-better-than-average job of not using gendered pronouns with ungendered role names. Unfortunately, better-than-average means "occasionally says "their partner" instead of "her partner"" but baby steps!)
I am very tired and don't wanna write the words.
Work today was pretty good but also hella unsatisfying because there was Serious Bullshit with classroom assignments and needing to last-minute move the classroom. I had like......fifteen minutes of warning in order to pack up my everything I would need for class five and move down to a computer lab. It was awfullllll and I'm not happy about it. Blah.
But focusing on the good stuff...uh....the kids seem to grok the Pythagorean Theorem? That's nice. Tomorrow we're moving into our special rights triangles and it's not totally rubbish as a lesson --we did good work last year! I had a good long talk with my mentee last week about his future (and need to send some networking emails on their behalf). Even though the kids are being forced into super dysregulating situations, they were mostly fine?
And yesterday I got a bunch of things done and also had a nice evening with a friend/comet. I didn't sleep enough, but that's Unfortunately Normal, and at least all my sleep hours were in a bed with the lights off, which is Unfortunately Abnormal right now. I'm working on it?
Went to demo team on Sunday, which was fine, and then dance tonight which was...like...it was pretty decent, both Keira and Beth pick good dances and stuff. But for one of them I was dancing on the larks side with my buddy DJ on the Robin's side. And one of the other dancers made some comment about how we had "switched sides just to confuse her". Which like. Fuck off. Fuck off fuck off fuck offfffff.
I understand that I need to be gracious and kind and help people slowly understand in a non-threatening way but also fuck offff. I know I don't pass. I know I will never pass. I know you don't see me as anything as a woman. But you're wrong and you will never know how absolutely hurtful it is to be told that there is an obvious gender box you think I should be in and therefore if I'm on the lark's side it's "wrong".
It was intermission after, so I didn't have to dissociate for that long, and I could go and sit with my knitting and talk to all the various people who came and sat by me and then Sharon asked me to dance. But it still feels bad. I appreciate that the teachers here are trying to normalize larks and robins1. But the class does not actually get it, and as long as the dancers as a whole are just treating this as "weird names for men and women" nothing is actually going to change.
There's no wrong side to dance on. There is especially no wrong side for me, a nonbinary person to dance on. There is especially no wrong side for anyone to dance on when the role terms are Lark and Robin and have nothing the fuck to do with anyone's gender.
Oh hey, I figured out why I am so tired and draggy and don't wanna write the words. :/
Anyways, I will continue to quietly dance when and where I can with people who are willing to ignore conventions based on what genitals a doctor thought you had when you were born and instead take into consideration, like, who's taller if the dance has an allemande in it. And even that is negotiable.
I'm gonna snuggle Austin and go to bed.
~Sor (they/them)
MOOP!
1: (I am _genuinely thrilled_ that Beth is restating the terms every evening, and also that she is doing a much-better-than-average job of not using gendered pronouns with ungendered role names. Unfortunately, better-than-average means "occasionally says "their partner" instead of "her partner"" but baby steps!)
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Mar. 15th, 2026 10:26 pmsorcyressWe're bad at everything. Let's write down the things we've done today:
***
I wrote all of the above earlier. I've since finished all the laundry --it appears that the shirts no longer smell, so success-- and gone to demo team and hung out with Maia some, so all of that is quite good.
I couldn't maintain GOGOGO the entire day, but also like, I shouldn't have to? I shouldn't in general? It is important to do mindless fuckoff stuff as well as Srs Useful Stuff? Yeah.
I hope you are well. <3
~Sor
MOOP!
- Brushed hair
- Braided hair
- Ate Breakfast, also caught up on comics and even read a bit of Dreamwidth finally (I miss y'all, it's another symptom of the same Problem that is my brain right now.)
- Unloaded dishwasher, reloaded dishwasher
- Brought the load of laundry that's been in the dryer for three days upstairs finally (thanks Rey for basketing it, sorry to have left it)
- Brought a bunch of laundry downstairs, started it (load two is just in the washer now, and load one in the dryer)
- Switched my stuffies from their hamper into a steralite bin, eventually this will turn into like...one of those ottomans that opens up and you can store blankets (or stuffed animals) in but then it has a surface instead of being an amorphous blob sticking out of the top of a hamper, bonus, was able to use the hamper for my spare quilts/heavy blankets, double bonus, went through the stuffies a little and have some I can maybe give away.
- Folded most of the laundry from that old load, while putting it away, successfully went through underwear drawer and pulled out the "good enough to keep but I'm not going to wear it regularly" stuff to put in the "save for Pinewoods" box
(At Pinewoods I would like to have approximately three pairs of underwear a day. If I do something absolutely batshit crazy this year, that will change, but I want to have the option to be able to wear clean underwear always.) - Also socks, pulled out a handful of pairs I don't like so I stop wearing them by accident and being all :/ about it, also pulled out all the pairs that I know have big holes (they're currently due for the trash, but I may put some into my scraps bag instead)
- Got stuck in a serious yak shaving rabbit hole but I think I have finally managed to put the additional music I wanted onto my phone, and also I have taken off last year's photos, which is important because now my phone should run smoother? Anyways, that took forever but now I can listen to music while I do additional chores? Seems fake. I'm into it!
- I also reset the "accessories" boxen, which technically go with socks --long stockings, tights, kilt hose and accessories, suspenders and belts, scarves/pashminas. It's been a while, so that was good.
- I'm now sitting down to eat lunch. Laundry load two is on my bed upstairs to put away, load three is in the dryer, four in the washer. (I'm aiming for like...six? It wouldn't be so high, but a) I have been slipping on the "own more than one set of sheets so that you don't get trapped with an unmade bed by having all your sheets dirty at once" and so I need to catch up there *and* there's been some sort of funky smell in my t-shirts boxen for a couple months and I'm not sure what's up with that, but I think step one is probably just wash _all_ my t-shirts.
On the plus side, that latter problem doesn't seem to be anywhere in my dresser except my shirts, so that's a good sign? I guess? I mean, mostly it just means there's probably not, like, a dead mouse behind my dresser or something (a thing I would not be able to rationally deal with)).
***
I wrote all of the above earlier. I've since finished all the laundry --it appears that the shirts no longer smell, so success-- and gone to demo team and hung out with Maia some, so all of that is quite good.
I couldn't maintain GOGOGO the entire day, but also like, I shouldn't have to? I shouldn't in general? It is important to do mindless fuckoff stuff as well as Srs Useful Stuff? Yeah.
I hope you are well. <3
~Sor
MOOP!
Live (ish) from Hollywood (or wherever the Academy Awards are)
Mar. 15th, 2026 08:45 pmlauradi7dwFirst bit has clips from the film, but then a strategic scene was re-created on the stage.
pi(e)
Mar. 14th, 2026 10:40 pmlauradi7dwIt looks more like breakfast I guess, but the tiny pie has a regular flour and oil crust on the bottom, then frozen blueberries (they thawed while baking) in the middle, then oatmeal/butter/a little sugar on top.
I have tried to cut palm oil out of my life with the weird exception of palmitate supplementation in milk. All commercial pies I've checked have palm oil (also most US and Korean brands of quick ramen, irritatingly). I used olive oil today, but yesterday in a f*ck RFK jr way, I bought a quart bottle of organic canola oil.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5453769/nutrition-canola-rfk-seed-oils-soybean
I am grateful that the Trader Joe's brand of round crackers (shaped like Ritz) are made with soybean oil, not palm. Small packages of PB crackers usually have palm oil, but this way I can make my own (and do, almost every day).
I have tried to cut palm oil out of my life with the weird exception of palmitate supplementation in milk. All commercial pies I've checked have palm oil (also most US and Korean brands of quick ramen, irritatingly). I used olive oil today, but yesterday in a f*ck RFK jr way, I bought a quart bottle of organic canola oil.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5453769/nutrition-canola-rfk-seed-oils-soybean
I am grateful that the Trader Joe's brand of round crackers (shaped like Ritz) are made with soybean oil, not palm. Small packages of PB crackers usually have palm oil, but this way I can make my own (and do, almost every day).
Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
The good and the ugly
Mar. 13th, 2026 09:07 pmlauradi7dwIn a week, BTS will release their first album in four years, called Arirang, named after an old Korean folksong. People (including a writer at Forbes) have been digging into the story of seven Korean students who ended up at Howard University in the late 19th century and were later recorded (on wax cylinders) singing Arirang. Everything old is new again. (there are seven members of BTS).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahabraham/2026/03/13/bts-arirang-trailer-who-were-the-seven-koreans-at-howard/
Similar article here
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/02/12/k-pop-there-was-arirang-first-korean-students-howard-university
People online are much amused by the mention of "a dozen persuasive damsels" of the college who got the Korean guys to sing at a gathering, before the wax recording was made. There has been discussion of them as the first American fandom of Korean guy singers. I like the idea of merch with Persuasive Dansel on it. But I worry that I'd be misrepresenting myself - I never was a student at Howard. I don't worry too much about cultural appropriation when I'm playing with the Pungmul group because they have a stated policy of openness.
There is a dark underside of fandom. One of the members of the group Enhypen (Lee Heeseung) has announced that he is leaving the group. He explained what kind of music he's planning to do on his own, the company has issued a generally supportive message, and one assumes that the other members are sympathetic and that his contract was up, or about to be. The reaction of many fans has been less supportive. Online demands that he not be allowed to quit, actual in-person demonstrations in Seoul, etc. I guess this is one manifestation of the attitude that at worst leads to stalking. However much someone's life can revolve around fandom, it doesn't mean the group members owe anything but public performances and recordings.
I remember that a lot of ink was wasted blaming Yoko Ono for the breakup of the Beatles, but there was a lot of other stuff going on. I've been wondering today what social media would have done with the whole thing, if it had existed then.
I have learned that there is a k-pop dance team at Howard U. There seems to be more on tiktok, but here's the youtube page
https://www.youtube.com/@1oakdanceteam991/featured
Added - people have started posting links to the earliest recordings from their own countries. Here's Ethiopia
https://youtu.be/qbL6Q9LoNvY?si=XBe3dUnxMiT_ttzA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahabraham/2026/03/13/bts-arirang-trailer-who-were-the-seven-koreans-at-howard/
Similar article here
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/02/12/k-pop-there-was-arirang-first-korean-students-howard-university
People online are much amused by the mention of "a dozen persuasive damsels" of the college who got the Korean guys to sing at a gathering, before the wax recording was made. There has been discussion of them as the first American fandom of Korean guy singers. I like the idea of merch with Persuasive Dansel on it. But I worry that I'd be misrepresenting myself - I never was a student at Howard. I don't worry too much about cultural appropriation when I'm playing with the Pungmul group because they have a stated policy of openness.
There is a dark underside of fandom. One of the members of the group Enhypen (Lee Heeseung) has announced that he is leaving the group. He explained what kind of music he's planning to do on his own, the company has issued a generally supportive message, and one assumes that the other members are sympathetic and that his contract was up, or about to be. The reaction of many fans has been less supportive. Online demands that he not be allowed to quit, actual in-person demonstrations in Seoul, etc. I guess this is one manifestation of the attitude that at worst leads to stalking. However much someone's life can revolve around fandom, it doesn't mean the group members owe anything but public performances and recordings.
I remember that a lot of ink was wasted blaming Yoko Ono for the breakup of the Beatles, but there was a lot of other stuff going on. I've been wondering today what social media would have done with the whole thing, if it had existed then.
I have learned that there is a k-pop dance team at Howard U. There seems to be more on tiktok, but here's the youtube page
https://www.youtube.com/@1oakdanceteam991/featured
Added - people have started posting links to the earliest recordings from their own countries. Here's Ethiopia
https://youtu.be/qbL6Q9LoNvY?si=XBe3dUnxMiT_ttzA
OK, now do the World Cup
Mar. 11th, 2026 08:47 pmlauradi7dwOut of concern for visa problems and the possibility of harm, after 30+ years, the Ig Nobel prize ceremony is moving to Switzerland this fall, although there will be a celebration later in Cambridge for the USian winners. (that's quite a run-on sentence but I think it's OK).
https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2
I don't have any respect for FIFA. This year they should reschedule all the US-based World Cup matches. Iran has already (understandably) said their men's team won't come.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/iran-world-cup-america-trump-boycott/
Their women's team was playing in Australia when the war started, and some of them have (requested? received?) asylum, although I have heard conflicting reports.
I am also full of admiration for the Foxborough select board that has thus far refused an "entertainment" license for the games scheduled there, as nobody has coughed up the money they need.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/03/kraft-group-deeply-disappointed-with-foxborough-officials-over-78m-security-costs-for-world-cup.html
BTS is scheduled to play there in August. I would guess the security money has already been budgeted by the concert promoters.
https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2
I don't have any respect for FIFA. This year they should reschedule all the US-based World Cup matches. Iran has already (understandably) said their men's team won't come.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/iran-world-cup-america-trump-boycott/
Their women's team was playing in Australia when the war started, and some of them have (requested? received?) asylum, although I have heard conflicting reports.
I am also full of admiration for the Foxborough select board that has thus far refused an "entertainment" license for the games scheduled there, as nobody has coughed up the money they need.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/03/kraft-group-deeply-disappointed-with-foxborough-officials-over-78m-security-costs-for-world-cup.html
BTS is scheduled to play there in August. I would guess the security money has already been budgeted by the concert promoters.
Twelve and a half years and four computers now
Mar. 11th, 2026 08:36 pmsorcyressI have started occasionally experiencing selective mutism.
And on the one hand, I don't actually think this is all that new an experience to me. I think I've always found it hard to talk sometimes, I've just not had a good language to refer to those times in any useful way. Selective Mutism is good language, and enough people are starting to know it that it kinda even is a useful thing to indicate to others on the rare occasion it matters.
But like everything about me, I don't _really_ have it and should probably not appropriate from other people's struggles just to sound cool. Especially because I don't actually have it. If I need to talk, and am experiencing a no-talk moment, I just step out of the no-talk and do what I need to do until I can return to it.
The phrase "slightly upsetting and marginally poetic" comes to mind, for no reason at all.
~Sor
MOOP!
And on the one hand, I don't actually think this is all that new an experience to me. I think I've always found it hard to talk sometimes, I've just not had a good language to refer to those times in any useful way. Selective Mutism is good language, and enough people are starting to know it that it kinda even is a useful thing to indicate to others on the rare occasion it matters.
But like everything about me, I don't _really_ have it and should probably not appropriate from other people's struggles just to sound cool. Especially because I don't actually have it. If I need to talk, and am experiencing a no-talk moment, I just step out of the no-talk and do what I need to do until I can return to it.
The phrase "slightly upsetting and marginally poetic" comes to mind, for no reason at all.
~Sor
MOOP!
good outcome
Mar. 10th, 2026 10:42 pmlauradi7dwOn Sunday I chipped a piece of the lingual side of #26. It made it sharp enough that I have a sore on my tongue from frequent investigation, but small enough that the dentist only had to smooth it a bit with the drill or burr or whatever it was. It was probably from biting into a (day old, not toasted) plain bagel. Sigh. Poor old teeth.
as a reminder
Mar. 10th, 2026 10:36 pmlauradi7dwThis movie is coming out on Patriot's day weekend, which will be pretty busy in MA, but I plan to see it
There are a couple of movies about Palestine scheduled to play in town this week, but I'm not sure I can do the timing.
I have stayed entirely unspoiled about the Hail Mary movie. I don't even know if it's playing nearby.
There are a couple of movies about Palestine scheduled to play in town this week, but I'm not sure I can do the timing.
I have stayed entirely unspoiled about the Hail Mary movie. I don't even know if it's playing nearby.
Same planets! Same days!
Mar. 10th, 2026 10:38 amlauradi7dwA week ago I asked a question about the Korean words for the moon and for a month, which I am convinced must be cognate in some way. The teacher expanded it and gave us the words for all the planets.
I already knew the days of the week and noticed a link between the planet name words and names of days of the week. I started to be like one of the many gifs of people saying "wait a minute" or having numerical formulae swirling overhead.
I restrained myself from jumping up and down. I let it digest for a few days. Then I made a chart. I can't figure out how to put a Libre Office table into this post, so I have taken a not very good photo of the screen
The Korean and Romance language words for Tuesday - Friday are based on the planets (in the same order) Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the English and Korean words for Saturday are clearly from Saturn. Can this be a coincidence? The Roman empire expanded to a lot of places, but I don't think Korea was one of them. I don't know much about the history of the Korean language. I was trying to find how far back words like the names of the planets (or days of the week) might go. I pointed out to the teacher that if I dropped her into London (as was) 1000 years ago she probably couldn't understand anything people said to her (she knows some Japanese but not German). I asked if she were dropped into Korea of that time period whether she'd understand what people said. She thought so, mostly.
If you are looking at the Korean words above and they just look unintelligible, I will break down one pair with the words for planet and day (which are built in) removed, ie a root of sorts.
Wednesday, for example
Mercury is 수성 take off the part that means planet and you get 수
Wednesday is 수요일 take off the part that means day, you get 수
I didn't go into the OE words for planets to see if they correspond to the Norse-ish days. Many languages (not English or Korean) have the Jewish or Christian religious influence for weekend days, so I am omitting them from my grand unified theory. Which isn't so unified, because lots of languages mostly call the days by a number.
I already knew the days of the week and noticed a link between the planet name words and names of days of the week. I started to be like one of the many gifs of people saying "wait a minute" or having numerical formulae swirling overhead.
I restrained myself from jumping up and down. I let it digest for a few days. Then I made a chart. I can't figure out how to put a Libre Office table into this post, so I have taken a not very good photo of the screen
The Korean and Romance language words for Tuesday - Friday are based on the planets (in the same order) Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the English and Korean words for Saturday are clearly from Saturn. Can this be a coincidence? The Roman empire expanded to a lot of places, but I don't think Korea was one of them. I don't know much about the history of the Korean language. I was trying to find how far back words like the names of the planets (or days of the week) might go. I pointed out to the teacher that if I dropped her into London (as was) 1000 years ago she probably couldn't understand anything people said to her (she knows some Japanese but not German). I asked if she were dropped into Korea of that time period whether she'd understand what people said. She thought so, mostly.
If you are looking at the Korean words above and they just look unintelligible, I will break down one pair with the words for planet and day (which are built in) removed, ie a root of sorts.
Wednesday, for example
Mercury is 수성 take off the part that means planet and you get 수
Wednesday is 수요일 take off the part that means day, you get 수
I didn't go into the OE words for planets to see if they correspond to the Norse-ish days. Many languages (not English or Korean) have the Jewish or Christian religious influence for weekend days, so I am omitting them from my grand unified theory. Which isn't so unified, because lots of languages mostly call the days by a number.
