September 6th, 2023

I did work on the second conlang a bit last night. I spent maybe too much time focusing on trying to get a sound-change system to work for one of the grammatical cases, but the phonology is set up in such a way that I'm not sure what to do for about half the consonant sounds, so right now it's just using a simple suffix system. I did sort out a general idea for the grammar of it though. There may be some small things I add to it, but I think mainly I should try to focus on making sure there's enough particle words and not a ton of morphemes (sounds with meaning) per individual word. I'm trying to make an analytical language, but I'm not striving for a purely isolating one.

Today I haven't actually done much of anything. I just spent a lot of it sitting upstairs and not wanting to talk about job stuff with mom. Not because I don't wanna get a job (though right now I want to relax a little, if I see the opportunity for one I'll take it), but because I really don't want to talk about Guidewire stuff. Guidewire is this insurance program thing that one of my mom's friends has told her is popular. And she seems to think that this means it's popular in programming and not insurance. It's just really frustrating having her constantly tell me I should do Guidewire training when 1) they aren't even offering any classes right now, and 2) it's clearly for employee training and not, like, people outside of the industry. I just hate getting into arguments with her, especially talking face-to-face. I'm just kinda bad at in-person talking.

Oh yeah I forgot, I reinstalled MtG Arena today. I don't know if I'll stick with it again for very long, but I don't think I'll uninstall it this time. Just maybe try to treat it as an occasional thing rather than something I either fully engage with or just ignore.