08 december 2021
Just finished finals- horrible timing on that. It turns out that the platform our college uses for online school relies on AWS, which had a catastrophic outage today. Had to wait seven hours before we could take our finals, which made them a stressful and unpleasant time crunch. Did get them done, so here's to hoping we did well and weren't screwed over by something out of our control. That wasn't a fun time at all.
Still musing over identity and person/parthood. Kaz makes things a muddy situation because they see themself as a part and a person at the same time, whereas the rest of us are clear-cut parts at this point. Some of us are very upset because they have a tendency to organize everything into categories, and Kaz defies their categories in a way that just bothers them/us to no end. It's a good and bad thing, I suppose. It's messy but forces us to confront that tendency. Also causes a lot of arguments. We're working on it. Also trying to figure out memory a little since we're not sure how bad it is, or if it's improved.
Very tired and kind of strained mentally right now thanks to the whole AWS issue with finals. Curse you, Amazon, for all kinds of reasons! This is why decentralizing the internet is a good thing!
Also working on making a plushie that represents all of us. It's a big patchwork of different fabrics that parts of us picked out. Should be interesting, if tedious.