green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

@mona@cybre.space aaanyway, the thing about the pyramids is that they were built way WAY long ago, back in the early half of the Old Kingdom. and they built a *lot* of them, all over the place. but (again IIRC) by the end of the Old Kingdom period, they were starting to have difficulty transmitting the information; and by the Middle Kingdom, they didn't know how to make them any more. (which is also how Khufu the architect became a god!)

@mona@cybre.space the Kemetic religion is all about adherence to tradition and rituals; it's how they managed to keep a continuitous society going for *two thousand years*. so when the Greeks said "enh we're not going to bother with your stupid religion, just worship our gods instead," it was incredibly traumatic to the Egyptians.

and it wasn't the first time it had happened; the reason for the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms was because of the "interregnums" of non-Egyptian rule.

@mona@cybre.space ok well prefaced with all this is IIRC, but:

part of the reason they vilified her was because she was the first in the line of Ptolemaic governors who bothered to actually *learn* anything about Egypt. she learned the language, revived the use of heiroglyphics, and began doing the traditional rituals that had been the jobs of the pharohs, and as a result the Egyptian people *adored* her.

@mona@cybre.space I am restraining myself from "well actually"-ing so hard right now

not about the computer languages, about Egypt

because

WELL ACTUALLY *attempts to distract self with pickles*

@mona@cybre.space @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town ..... *gets sudden craving for pickles*
*has jar of pickle slices in fridge*
*IS A WINNAR*

Nar is now serenading me vigorously. it's almost Food Time, for the food that I will offer them and that they will mostly ignore/disdain/attempt to bury, but I NEED TO OFFER THEM THE FOOD or else TERRIBLE THINGS. TEEERRRRRRIIIIIIBLEEEEE.

"oh good, I haven't been kicked for inactivity yet, whew. okay, let's go do some fishing and cooking dailies!"

tfw the first thing you do when you log in on an established character is check to see if it's still in a guild >_____>

today has been composed almost entirely of listless flopping around. I got the one thing I needed to do today done (call in sick from volunteering tomorrow), then somehow managed to get a couple of bonus things done (put a load of laundry on to wash, then dry, and finish filling the dishwasher and get that going) along with the usual daily needs of cat and self feeding.

I'm feeling a little better--like, 20% improvement. not a lot, but right now it feels *HUGE*. :P

okay, cats are fed, tea has been drunk, I feel if anything worse than I did when I woke up. so: time for a hit of NyQuil and heading back to bed. u__________u