-sniff- I had Thanksgiving last month. No turkey for me, although it seems to give me bad headaches this year for some reason.
Just about have my interview project done today. Only problem is that I have been destroying forests by the acre this term. I want to print it out, as I am going to tour my interview subject's lab tomorrow and I promised her a copy. I'm also going to burn a copy of the interview to CD for her as well.
I still have my Power-Point presentation on 3d Vision to do for theory (the one I mentioned on Facebook), the collections project (getting information on a gazillion different frames, lenses, coating, etc.) for lab. At least I don't have too much to work on for my Communications group project. Oh, and I have an exam on Monday.
Since I have all three of my classes with the same people, we each know what the others are up to. We all say we are having a hard time doing the reading because we have so many projects to do.
You're very busy Matt! I too have trouble getting to all the reading; there is just so much! Most days I'm up at 4 am and hitting the books. I learned last semester to study when I'm fresh, and do everything else when I'm tired.
We bought a new printer in August that can print on both sides of the paper. It helps a little; I still need a milk-crate-with-wheels to shlep my stuff from class to class.
What's 3D Vision? Is it a program you can download to PowerPoint?
I just came back from the store with some new paper and some blank CDs. It has been a few years since I bought some blank CDs and I did not have any more. I wanted to give my interviewee a copy of the interview.
Ok, glad to know I'm not the only one having trouble keeping up with their reading (though I only have one class).
Matt- Good luck on the exam on Monday? Is it a midterm? (seems a bit late) I got a 94 on my midterm a couple weeks back. I was surprised, because I figured I only got an 85-90 on it.
Goodness lady red- I can't believe you have to lug around that much stuff! I guess I'm luck I only have to carry a little notebook to class.
I have only to say that I hope everyone is doing well, here at TCKT, no matter external circumstances.
Trees falling, tests looming, and any number of real world events.
Don't we embrace it, the various challenges. Not saying wish it, to be clear, but finding life invigorating when it most tests us. Drawing out our true nature.
Ah well, I'm a little tippled. Go in tomorrow to have all the previous installed hardware on my leg break, un-installed.
I'll be unconscious from 11 to 12, say whatever you like then. :)
It is, or should be, a simple procedure, LR. Though with much slicing and dicing on my foot. With incisions though the only thing to worry about is infection. Though I'm pretty well innoculated due to eating a lot of dirt in my childhood. Or something.
One of the things I do to help memorize stuff is to write things over and over or draw diagrams over and over. If you look through my notebooks you will see this.
On of those diagrams is of the visual path in the brain. But when I am flipping through my notebook I keep wondering why I have drawing of fallopian tube"
I really admire you guys for your hard work. It will be so nice to get vision and medical advice here on TCKT!!! Alphie, I don't think you mentioned what field you are studying? But kudos on aceing your mid-terms. I'm not surprised.
Lord, I've been reading McCullough's wonderful biography, John Adams, for the last 3 weeks and I'm on page 300-something. I only read once I retire so sometimes that's only 10 pages a night. I finally bought the damn book as the library refuses to renew 7 times. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I think you all are amazing to be pursuing your goals and having to do all this studying. You're an inspiration.
I had hardware taken out of my ankle from a break several years after it was installed. It was much easier getting it taken out so I'm sure you will be very happy with the results.
I love your humououououour thread, Fay. Thank you for the funnies.
But when I am flipping through my notebook I keep wondering why I have drawing of fallopian tube
The subconscious is a powerful thing, Mat!
I thought it looked like two people walking with their hands on each other's butts.
Sounds like a Levi's ad.
---
I'm behind - usually I do the lectures and the quizes for my class the day they come out; I'm going to have to jam this weekend.
I volunteered to lead a team for my investment group recently; we had a deadline of early February but it then suddenly got pulled into mid-December. Yikes. No arguing with teachers or managers about deadlines or schedules. With deals, it is what it is, and it happens, or it doesn't.
Which brings to mind...
...I feel sympathy with some government officials in that regard. No, really. The mid-level guys in the finance ministries in Europe have just gotten creamed lately - these are the poor bastards (and bastardettes) who come early and stay late to all the weekend-emergency-summit crap that's going on with the Eurozone crisis. Across the continent, probably a few hundred very smart twenty and thirtysomething finance/econ technocrats who are on the verge of a nervous breakdown right about now.
I don't know if they're destroying civilization or saving it; neither do they, probably. But whatever they're doing I'm sure they're working very hard on it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Kitchen Comrades™! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
To all you new students - you make me feel so lazy and stupid. I admire you so much for going back to school at this stage of your life. Good luck with all your exams!
Good luck to Luther too on your leg-fixing procedure. I'm sorry I didn't even know you'd broken it. I hope it all goes well and you're hopping around a dance floor in no time. :)
There's no Thanksgiving here but we're giving thanks all the same because it's RAINING! In fact it's pouring! In fact it's even more than that, but it's a rude Yiddish word so I won't use it here :)).
Usually we segue from summer to winter over a few weeks, graduating from T-shirts to long-sleeved shirts, and only around December do I dig out my warmer clothes. This year the transition has taken place over the course of a week. But I think we must be one of only a very few countries where everyone is walking around smiling at the murky grey skies.
flo, don't you live pretty close to vampire country? You know, where Twilight is set?
(For those of you not following that drama - the premis of that vampire story is that while sunlight is not harmful to vampires, they need to avoid it because their skin glistens like diamond in sunlight. So they live in the cloudiest, rainiest town in the country. Not far from florrie IIRC...)
lewy, we used to be close when we were on the Olympic Peninsula. Now we're about 3 hours from that town. The movie at least brought them some tourist dollars, it's basically an old defunct logging town.
I'm delighted to have a little break. I hope you all will be able to take a few days off too, and enjoy a little turkey and stuffing. And pie!
ReplyDelete-sniff- I had Thanksgiving last month. No turkey for me, although it seems to give me bad headaches this year for some reason.
ReplyDeleteJust about have my interview project done today. Only problem is that I have been destroying forests by the acre this term. I want to print it out, as I am going to tour my interview subject's lab tomorrow and I promised her a copy. I'm also going to burn a copy of the interview to CD for her as well.
I still have my Power-Point presentation on 3d Vision to do for theory (the one I mentioned on Facebook), the collections project (getting information on a gazillion different frames, lenses, coating, etc.) for lab. At least I don't have too much to work on for my Communications group project. Oh, and I have an exam on Monday.
Since I have all three of my classes with the same people, we each know what the others are up to. We all say we are having a hard time doing the reading because we have so many projects to do.
You're very busy Matt! I too have trouble getting to all the reading; there is just so much! Most days I'm up at 4 am and hitting the books. I learned last semester to study when I'm fresh, and do everything else when I'm tired.
ReplyDeleteWe bought a new printer in August that can print on both sides of the paper. It helps a little; I still need a milk-crate-with-wheels to shlep my stuff from class to class.
What's 3D Vision? Is it a program you can download to PowerPoint?
I just came back from the store with some new paper and some blank CDs. It has been a few years since I bought some blank CDs and I did not have any more. I wanted to give my interviewee a copy of the interview.
ReplyDeleteOk, glad to know I'm not the only one having trouble keeping up with their reading (though I only have one class).
ReplyDeleteMatt- Good luck on the exam on Monday? Is it a midterm? (seems a bit late) I got a 94 on my midterm a couple weeks back. I was surprised, because I figured I only got an 85-90 on it.
Goodness lady red- I can't believe you have to lug around that much stuff! I guess I'm luck I only have to carry a little notebook to class.
This exam is called a post test. That is a term I had never heard before. Lat month we had four weeks of tests:
ReplyDeleteWeek 1 - post test in theory
Week 2 - post test in lab
Week 3 - mid term in theory
Week 4 - mid term in lab.
That just throws your entire Mojo off.
Matt, that's..weird. Post test? Silly Canadians... :))
ReplyDeleteAlphie, I'm glad I'm in good company with you and Matt when it comes to all the reading!
I have only to say that I hope everyone is doing well, here at TCKT, no matter external circumstances.
ReplyDeleteTrees falling, tests looming, and any number of real world events.
Don't we embrace it, the various challenges. Not saying wish it, to be clear, but finding life invigorating when it most tests us. Drawing out our true nature.
Ah well, I'm a little tippled. Go in tomorrow to have all the previous installed hardware on my leg break, un-installed.
I'll be unconscious from 11 to 12, say whatever you like then. :)
I hope everything goes well for you tomorrow Luther! It should feel wonderful to have the contraption off of your leg.
ReplyDeleteIt is, or should be, a simple procedure, LR. Though with much slicing and dicing on my foot. With incisions though the only thing to worry about is infection. Though I'm pretty well innoculated due to eating a lot of dirt in my childhood. Or something.
ReplyDeleteThanks, though.
One of the things I do to help memorize stuff is to write things over and over or draw diagrams over and over. If you look through my notebooks you will see this.
ReplyDeleteOn of those diagrams is of the visual path in the brain. But when I am flipping through my notebook I keep wondering why I have drawing of fallopian tube"
img:"http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e147/RadioMattM/Visionpathdrawing.jpg"
Matt, I thought it looked like two people walking with their hands on each other's butts.
ReplyDeleteWearing suspenders.
I like it.
"when I am flipping through my notebook I keep wondering why I have drawing of fallopian tube"
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why, ladies, when you go to get a new pair of glasses the optician makes you sit down and look into the lens thingy.
If an optician ever asks you to lie down and put your feet in the stirrups run for the hills!
Ha ha, well spotted afw (and tres cute!)
ReplyDeleteMatt's drawing looks vaguely suggestive.
ReplyDeleteI really admire you guys for your hard work. It will be so nice to get vision and medical advice here on TCKT!!! Alphie, I don't think you mentioned what field you are studying? But kudos on aceing your mid-terms. I'm not surprised.
Lord, I've been reading McCullough's wonderful biography, John Adams, for the last 3 weeks and I'm on page 300-something. I only read once I retire so sometimes that's only 10 pages a night. I finally bought the damn book as the library refuses to renew 7 times. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I think you all are amazing to be pursuing your goals and having to do all this studying. You're an inspiration.
Good luck, Luther!
ReplyDeleteI had hardware taken out of my ankle from a break several years after it was installed. It was much easier getting it taken out so I'm sure you will be very happy with the results.
I love your humououououour thread, Fay. Thank you for the funnies.
Don't thank me.
ReplyDeleteReally!
It's the lovely lady red's thread.
But I'm flattered to be compared!
Oh merde! img:"http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/floranista/embarrassed.png"
ReplyDeleteI saw the Brits spelling of humor and ASSumed it was Fay's post.
Thank you, lovely lady red!
But when I am flipping through my notebook I keep wondering why I have drawing of fallopian tube
ReplyDeleteThe subconscious is a powerful thing, Mat!
I thought it looked like two people walking with their hands on each other's butts.
Sounds like a Levi's ad.
---
I'm behind - usually I do the lectures and the quizes for my class the day they come out; I'm going to have to jam this weekend.
I volunteered to lead a team for my investment group recently; we had a deadline of early February but it then suddenly got pulled into mid-December. Yikes. No arguing with teachers or managers about deadlines or schedules. With deals, it is what it is, and it happens, or it doesn't.
Which brings to mind...
...I feel sympathy with some government officials in that regard. No, really. The mid-level guys in the finance ministries in Europe have just gotten creamed lately - these are the poor bastards (and bastardettes) who come early and stay late to all the weekend-emergency-summit crap that's going on with the Eurozone crisis. Across the continent, probably a few hundred very smart twenty and thirtysomething finance/econ technocrats who are on the verge of a nervous breakdown right about now.
I don't know if they're destroying civilization or saving it; neither do they, probably. But whatever they're doing I'm sure they're working very hard on it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Kitchen Comrades™! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteTo all you new students - you make me feel so lazy and stupid. I admire you so much for going back to school at this stage of your life. Good luck with all your exams!
Good luck to Luther too on your leg-fixing procedure. I'm sorry I didn't even know you'd broken it. I hope it all goes well and you're hopping around a dance floor in no time. :)
There's no Thanksgiving here but we're giving thanks all the same because it's RAINING! In fact it's pouring! In fact it's even more than that, but it's a rude Yiddish word so I won't use it here :)).
Usually we segue from summer to winter over a few weeks, graduating from T-shirts to long-sleeved shirts, and only around December do I dig out my warmer clothes. This year the transition has taken place over the course of a week. But I think we must be one of only a very few countries where everyone is walking around smiling at the murky grey skies.
This thread has given me an opportunity to post yet another silly picture, slightly related to Lady Red's flamingo turkey.
ReplyDeleteimgw:"http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y169/annekl/Emoticons/pro-semiticpigs.jpg"
LOL Annie!
ReplyDeleteThat's so cute!
ReplyDeleteHeh, annie, you should move to the great state of Washington if you want gray, rainy days. We still love it though...
flo, don't you live pretty close to vampire country? You know, where Twilight is set?
ReplyDelete(For those of you not following that drama - the premis of that vampire story is that while sunlight is not harmful to vampires, they need to avoid it because their skin glistens like diamond in sunlight. So they live in the cloudiest, rainiest town in the country. Not far from florrie IIRC...)
lewy, we used to be close when we were on the Olympic Peninsula. Now we're about 3 hours from that town. The movie at least brought them some tourist dollars, it's basically an old defunct logging town.
ReplyDeleteYes, cloudy and rainy!
Um. I read the Twilight saga.
ReplyDeletePlease do not stop being my friends.
"flo, don't you live pretty close to vampire country?"
ReplyDeleteSheesh, for a minute there I thought lewy was implying that Matt and I are vampires...
@afw LOL! My wife loves it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough she's not into the whiney vampire emo boys. She likes the beefy werwolf dude.
@Fay - glad I elaborated, I was just going to post that one sentence...
LOl lewy, me too!
ReplyDelete