Hemata
hemata
- (v.) to open one’s eyes
- (v.) to wake up, to awaken, to wake
Oku! Hemata ia a’a oku!
“No! Don’t wake up yet!”
Notes: HAPPY CATURDAY!!! 
It occurred to me today that I’d never reported on a daily occurrence with Keli. In addition to her co-opting my old chair as her personal spot next to my desk, she also uses it as a bed—but only sometimes. So every night I roll the chair right up next to the bed. Occasionally I pick her up when I go to bed and put her on the chair, and she purrs—and darts away. But then usually some time during the night she hops up and sleeps next to me.
The funny thing, though, is that she’s rarely there when I wake up (occasionally she is, but not often). Instead, what she does is right when I’m about to get up and start the day, then she hops up on the chair, purrs, and snuggles down to sleep. And she expects me to lie back down and go to sleep as well!
Anyway, she did that this morning, so I thought I should take a picture:
I turned on the light to better capture her, but that didn’t seem to help too much… It’s also dark here, because it’s raining (in Southern California! How ’bout that…).
Today’s word derives from…oh my goodness. Are you kidding me?! The most commonly used word in Kamakawi (and the most commonly-occurring here on the blog) and I haven’t done an entry for it?! Seriously?! Wow. Epic fail.
So, yeah. Today’s word derives from mata, which means (as anyone who follows this blog even a little bit now knows) “to see”. And some time in the near future I will do an entry for mata, since apparently I’m crazy and have not done so yet. What a world…
November 4th, 2011 at 4:57 pm)
what’s the opposite of “catnap”? Whatever the word for a brief stay of awakeness between bouts of sleeping, that may be what Keli’s aiming for. just a hunch.
Um, I fail to see how it’s a fail to save one of the most common words for later. That’s just good sense.
and you are not crazy.
November 4th, 2011 at 5:51 pm)
Hooray! I’m not crazy!
And I love the idea of a word meaning the opposite of “catnap”. In fact, I have no idea why “catnap” came from cats. They’re asleep more than they’re awake—that’s hardly catnapping!
November 5th, 2011 at 1:43 am)
Crazy people don’t make good conlangs.
>that’s hardly catnapping!
Maybe from how cats can lay down – and then be up and away in a second?