Misc. Weekend Summary
Apr. 12th, 2004 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anigoWell, back to work. Woohoo. But next to nothing's open today, so it only took me about 20 minutes to get here, which is swell.
Easter Dinner was ok, and I did have enough ham. The ham was delicious. I do make a pretty mean ham if I do say so myself. The pink barbie was accepted in place of an orange one and there was chocolate enough for everybody.
Do you know what I realized yesterday? I'm taking 2.5 credits this year. Students that take 3 credits are considered full time students. I'm one hair away from being a full time worker and a full time student. Jeeze! No wonder I'm overwhelmed into a quivering ball of lime jello every once in a while.
I went out and bought a new pair of jeans this weekend. I'm tired of having all my current jeans being just that little bit too snug from the winter hybernation layer that I have yet to loose - so I splurged and bought a really fine pair of low rise blue/grey jeans with just the right amount of fading in a size that fits. It's amazing what a sexy pair of jeans that fit will do for your ego. Been shakin' my booty all weekend. I may even get my belly button pierced... ;)
Oodles and oodles to do today. I could have taken today off, as Friday was a stat holiday and my day off, so I could have taken a lieu day, but I've got a whack to do, so I thought I'd come in while everybody else has taken today as a holiday and get some work done.
Got an exam tomorrow night. Studying's going along ok, but the older I get the more I realize that I've got some serious brain/learning issues. (Prepare to listen to feable excuses) I'm a serious right brain kind of individual (Or at least *I* think it's right brain... I always get my left and right confused) I am creative, inventive, great at coming up with solutions. I can't spell, I can't do math and I can't think linerally.. lineraly... lineray. Whatever. I find the older I get the worse I get at these things I'm bad at anyway. For example. Seriously. 7+6. Dunno. Gotta figure it out by going 6+6=12+1=13. 7x3? 7+7=14+7=(seriously, this is where the fingers come in.. 14+7... 13+7=20+1=21) I am a 35 year old pretty smart cookie who doesn't know what 7x3 is Please don't ask me what 7x6 is, because there's nothing nearby that works out to a derivative of 10, so I LITERALLY have to use my fingers. If it doesn't equal 10, then I'm screwed.
I read this question last night.
A critical analysis of two preferred alternatives in order to find an even better alternative for the organization to adopt is referred to as:
A) devil's advocacy.
B) dialectical inquiry.
C) cluster effect.
D) primary commitment.
And honest to god. I could have been reading it in Dutch. My eyes followed the words and the words never made it to my brain. I read it about 8 times before I gave up on the question. Now, I'm a fairly articulate individual. Big words don't frighten me. I can throw them around with the best of them. But I can not understand that sentance. I have to break it down, and picture every word to understand what it's asking. This is very annoying and appears to be getting worse as I get older. And it's not that I don't know the answer, but I just don't understand the question.
Does anybody know if there's a way to exercise the non-dominant side of your brain? (Aside from practicing the multiplication tables)
Ok, I'm going to exercise at least the side that *is* working and get some work done.
Hope everybody has a swell day!
Easter Dinner was ok, and I did have enough ham. The ham was delicious. I do make a pretty mean ham if I do say so myself. The pink barbie was accepted in place of an orange one and there was chocolate enough for everybody.
Do you know what I realized yesterday? I'm taking 2.5 credits this year. Students that take 3 credits are considered full time students. I'm one hair away from being a full time worker and a full time student. Jeeze! No wonder I'm overwhelmed into a quivering ball of lime jello every once in a while.
I went out and bought a new pair of jeans this weekend. I'm tired of having all my current jeans being just that little bit too snug from the winter hybernation layer that I have yet to loose - so I splurged and bought a really fine pair of low rise blue/grey jeans with just the right amount of fading in a size that fits. It's amazing what a sexy pair of jeans that fit will do for your ego. Been shakin' my booty all weekend. I may even get my belly button pierced... ;)
Oodles and oodles to do today. I could have taken today off, as Friday was a stat holiday and my day off, so I could have taken a lieu day, but I've got a whack to do, so I thought I'd come in while everybody else has taken today as a holiday and get some work done.
Got an exam tomorrow night. Studying's going along ok, but the older I get the more I realize that I've got some serious brain/learning issues. (Prepare to listen to feable excuses) I'm a serious right brain kind of individual (Or at least *I* think it's right brain... I always get my left and right confused) I am creative, inventive, great at coming up with solutions. I can't spell, I can't do math and I can't think linerally.. lineraly... lineray. Whatever. I find the older I get the worse I get at these things I'm bad at anyway. For example. Seriously. 7+6. Dunno. Gotta figure it out by going 6+6=12+1=13. 7x3? 7+7=14+7=(seriously, this is where the fingers come in.. 14+7... 13+7=20+1=21) I am a 35 year old pretty smart cookie who doesn't know what 7x3 is Please don't ask me what 7x6 is, because there's nothing nearby that works out to a derivative of 10, so I LITERALLY have to use my fingers. If it doesn't equal 10, then I'm screwed.
I read this question last night.
A critical analysis of two preferred alternatives in order to find an even better alternative for the organization to adopt is referred to as:
A) devil's advocacy.
B) dialectical inquiry.
C) cluster effect.
D) primary commitment.
And honest to god. I could have been reading it in Dutch. My eyes followed the words and the words never made it to my brain. I read it about 8 times before I gave up on the question. Now, I'm a fairly articulate individual. Big words don't frighten me. I can throw them around with the best of them. But I can not understand that sentance. I have to break it down, and picture every word to understand what it's asking. This is very annoying and appears to be getting worse as I get older. And it's not that I don't know the answer, but I just don't understand the question.
Does anybody know if there's a way to exercise the non-dominant side of your brain? (Aside from practicing the multiplication tables)
Ok, I'm going to exercise at least the side that *is* working and get some work done.
Hope everybody has a swell day!
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Date: 2004-04-12 10:31 am (UTC)A) devil's advocacy.
B) dialectical inquiry.
C) cluster effect.
D) primary commitment.
And honest to god. I could have been reading it in Dutch. My eyes followed the words and the words never made it to my brain. I read it about 8 times before I gave up on the question. Now, I'm a fairly articulate individual. Big words don't frighten me. I can throw them around with the best of them. But I can not understand that sentance. I have to break it down, and picture every word to understand what it's asking. This is very annoying and appears to be getting worse as I get older. And it's not that I don't know the answer, but I just don't understand the question.
I do my math the same way.
And this is a clumpy sentence. It's not a good, well expressed question. The only solace in that, is that it probably hurt like hell for the person to be able to write it, because I know what is being asked, and I can't think of a smoother way to ask it.
For one thing, there is too much jargon/business speak in the entire question. In my opinion, that's the root problem with "business". It's not enough to do the job and be done, we now have to conduct "dialectal inquiry". Gimme a fucking break. And there is an entire flippin' class devoted to this jargon. This is not chemistry, it's people doing business with one another. Agreeing to exchange good and/or services for money. There is no need to create a new language for it.
I mean basically, the question is:
Whaddaya call it when yer tryin' to find a better way to solve problems so the company can add it to the procedural manual?
Is the English language not enough of a challenge on it's own???
Yipes.
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Date: 2004-04-12 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-12 03:36 pm (UTC)Hush man. I can't even do multiplication, let along division. (Nor spelling, obviously!)
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Date: 2004-04-12 05:53 pm (UTC)Wanna try hanging out on the International Woman of Mystery's friends list, huh? Be prepared to see a LOT of ant killing via flame thrower.
(I like it... better than the all day breakfast buffet!)
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Date: 2004-04-12 06:24 pm (UTC)Besides, watching someone kill ants with a flamethrower can be FUN.
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Date: 2004-04-13 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 05:18 am (UTC)Have you been in my management class all this time and haven't revealed yourself to me?!?
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Date: 2004-04-13 12:20 pm (UTC)And I was good at calculus and geometry... 'cause they're left-brained disciplines of math, if you've got a good teacher anyway. (Which is, in fact, probably what you meant... left-brained is the creative side, and right-brained is the logical side.)
Believe it or not, I write code left-brained.
And if it makes you feel any better, that question doesn't make heads or tails to me either, and I'm no dummy, if I do say so myself. I'd have to guess B), mostly by process of elimination, and the fact that it's got the word "inquiry" in it. Fuck all.
This is why I use a calculator to do arithmetic; we had a running joke in my calculus class in high school: "We're calculus students - we can ADD! On good days, we can subtract too! Just don't ask us to do tough stuff like multiply."