04 august 2025
Alright, now it's 10:13 PM, August 3. It just says August 4 because it's on UTC and I have no idea how to fix that. I figured I would stop double-spacing since it looks obnoxious on desktop but it looks just fine on mobile. I'll probably just change the CSS.
Turns out the IRC has a Toki Pona channel! What a discovery! Talking to other jan pi toki pona was sorely needed. There's also channels for Esperanto, Japanese, French, and German but there doesn't seem to be one for Mandarin Chinese yet. Mandarin is my strongest natural language (besides English ofc) so I'll have to figure that out.
Looks like all you need to do is type /join #chinese and you're off to the races until you type /part #chinese at which point the channel deletes itself (since you're the only one in the server I suppose).
On an unrelated note, went to the one Mexican restaurant in nothingtown that we've been to like 20 vigintillion times. Ordered something different, it was alright.
What is it, sixteen days before school? Christ, I don't even have my license yet.
Funny enough, last year, they had a whole district-wide survey asking "Hey, should we have school out on Mondays?" The thought was that it would only stretch the daily schedule out by 15 minutes in either direction and it would (supposedly) attract new sorely-needed teachers. Both of my parents are convinced that the problem is far bigger than that.
Tough times for those who actually care about the kids in nothingtown. I won them $1000 at a competition and while most were impressed, there was only one teacher who seemed convinced the money might be at all significant to the district. To be fair, she led the main money-making extracurricular.
Shit, what's my schedule for this year? I think it's physics, calculus, accounting, middle school tutoring, drama, some English class, and I forget what else. I could search through my stack of papers from last year but it would take so long that my shoddy connection would reset and I'd have to write this all over again. No guarantee I have it anyway.
The only thing I know for sure is that I'm not taking any sort of music class, which is a massive shame because I could really use some preparation for university audition. I just can't bear another year at marching band.
Just remembered I have the planning thing on Google Sheets. That "what else" is desktop publishing, basically yearbook class. The yearbook this year was fine, but the formatting and writing could use many improvements and I have a good relationship with the teacher there from creative writing club.
Sounds good. Now I just need to get my damn license. They let students paint their own parking spots so it would be nice to have some sense of permanent impression on the place.