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Math was my nemesis, and writing, but that was more due to my dyslexia.
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I failed bio because of the stupid 100+ collection of plant (fall) or animal (spring) samples we had to gather, identify, get checked off, and write summaries for. I scraped out of the class with a C-, but the two 6-weeks where those were due I failed.you're a pokemon master. How could you not have caught them all.
It's significantly harder to manage without a PokeDex and/or Bulbapedia, I learned.
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I failed bio because of the stupid 100+ collection of plant (fall) or animal (spring) samples we had to gather, identify, get checked off, and write summaries for. I scraped out of the class with a C-, but the two 6-weeks where those were due I failed.Man, that was me in Chemistry.
Chemistry suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
It's an awesome field, and I super-respect anyone who's good at it, but I scraped through with that C- with everything I had.
Biology? Rockin'.
Physics? On it.
Chem? Oh, schnaaaaaaaaaaaaap, no.
Heh I was the opposite, did decent in chem.
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Now I wonder if that was before or after, on a Geography lesson (with the same Geography teacher as the one above), when I got called to the board, failed miserably to answer the questions, got myself "1" (the grading in Poland is from 1 to 6, the higher the better, with six reserved for outstanding results above the requirements). The teacher proceeded to ask questions and grade them among the other guys in the class (for some obscure reason, we were split for that class into boys/girls groups and mixed with another group because there weren't enough boys for a full group in our regular group). At the end of the class she called me to the board, asked the same questions I got earlier. This time I answered correctly, after checking what I didn't know in books and from listening to others answering.
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I like all these stories of being allowed to do different stuff once you were done with your assigned classwork. I don't think I had a single teacher that would let you do that
I've never seen the harm in it...provided it isn't distracting other people from getting their work done.
It helps if you think of chemistry as an application of Physics.I failed bio because of the stupid 100+ collection of plant (fall) or animal (spring) samples we had to gather, identify, get checked off, and write summaries for. I scraped out of the class with a C-, but the two 6-weeks where those were due I failed.Man, that was me in Chemistry.
Chemistry suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
It's an awesome field, and I super-respect anyone who's good at it, but I scraped through with that C- with everything I had.
Biology? Rockin'.
Physics? On it.
Chem? Oh, schnaaaaaaaaaaaaap, no.
Heh. Never did help me.
Bio was easy because it was nothing more than memorization.
Physics was easy because it was nothing more than application of logical processes - you have the formula, you know how to apply them, you'll be fine.
Chemistry was a half-way horror show of both. Especially to someone who is dyslexic.
- You had to memorize the chart.
- - Memorize the properties of the things on the chart.
- - - Memorize how those things change over the course of the chart.
- Memorize the formulas.
- - Memorize the variances within the formulas.
- Memorize the specific chemical level interactions (i.e. specific valence interactions, and which things on the chart are more or less stable and why, and so on).
Then you have to figure how all these interact and work together.
For someone with dyslexia, all those little color boxes start to swirl together (figuratively) and then you've got, "Wait which of these was the base, again? Carp, was I looking for pink or white?"
It was... not a good.
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I do believe I've found my favourite christmas album everI finally caved last week and started playing Christmas music before my first hour started. To mix it up, however, it's been different every time, so the kids have started commenting on how they can't predict anything to expect from me.
Today, I found this. Yessss.
thats some album.
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I always played around with spelling things in elements. It was FAsCINAtIn...and usually didn't work because of missing single-letter symbols. Never could manage to spell my name.
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Chemistry was much easier to me than physics. I could not get the formulae straight for everything, even though the concepts generally made sense.
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So, brief little tirade while I'm waiting for my colleague to check something for me:
What is it about the people who save seats for flakes that makes them universally unpleasant?
We're all prepping for the madrigal performances over the weekend, and our #1 concern isn't the food, nor the packed house, nor the kids' behavior, but the inevitable:
"I got here at 4:30 pm, waited in line for two hours so that I'd be first in, and clearly marked these eight seats for myself and my family and friends."
"I understand that, but the show is starting and we have people looking for seats. Since your friends haven't shown up, we're going to have to ask you to relinquish them."
I swear. We give them until 5 minutes before curtain time to get in and take their saved seats. If they can't be bothered to be even 5 minutes early, they don't deserve saved seats.
Just a pet peeve of mine. I can see saving a seat for the one guy who has to make it across the bridge in traffic and so he's going to be a while, but once you have one person saving five other seats because NONE of them could be bothered to oh, y'know, leave work early or anything, I get ornery.
EDIT: Though it has given me an appreciation for the theaters that lock their doors the moment the show starts.
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Urrgghhh...
A long day at work. My babies were very unruly today. Seeming very dissatisfied with being cooped up indoor because of the third day of bad weather in a row (mostly heavy winds and a lot of rain).
But me and the 14 babies, did have time for some socializing besides the daily grooming, care and feeding.
High school was mixed bag for me (mostly due to other factors the school work).
Grades wise I've managed to scrape by with an average slightly under 9 (which is a B/B+ American wise I think...). But if you broke down my grades, I tended to have an average of around 8 (B/B-) for my yearly grade (Yes, we got a year grade in classes, at the end of the year, besides our test grades) and around a 10 (A-/B+) most of my qualifying tests. Which averaged out around 9 (or 8.791 to be more precise).
Top threes (what I'm most proud of anyway ^^):
History: 11
Geography: 11
Biology: 10
Bottom threes:
Music: 6
Danish ( Oral - Damn you 70's Woman's liberation poetry, why the heck did I have to pick you out of the hat! >:( ...): 7
Sports: 6
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An Interesting Psychological Quirk of NobodysHome:
I love to cook. Especially for guests. Especially for large groups.
And yet I am absolutely terrified to volunteer for an "organized" cooking event, such as the madrigal. Examining my emotions, I think it's because I'm a very "random" cook. Today's lunch was a good example: Week-old chicken breasts, two-week-old rice, some baked potatoes, half a bunch of celery, and some lettuce and spinach. I mixed it up into a nice Chinese-style curry that had to simmer over high heat for 45 minutes, so the unfortunate odor of the chicken breasts was completely overwhelmed (as were any bugs trying to reside in said aged chicken).
The dish came out awesome. But I sure as heck wouldn't serve it to guests.
I've never taken a cooking class. When I cook, I "just do it".
So the notion of being there for 3 hours, having to tear lettuce well enough that it's the "right" size, or cut persimmon slices to the "right" thickness terrifies me. If someone else says, "Slice it to this thickness" I can do that all day. But "just make it right" doesn't work for me in an "industrial" setting.
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Three day weekend! For the wife and kids, I get to work two out of three of those days.
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...Examining my emotions, I think it's because I'm a very "random" cook. Today's lunch was a good example: Week-old chicken breasts, two-week-old rice, some baked potatoes, half a bunch of celery, and some lettuce and spinach. I mixed it up into a nice Chinese-style curry that had to simmer over high heat for 45 minutes, so the unfortunate odor of the chicken breasts was completely overwhelmed (as were any bugs trying to reside in said aged chicken).The dish came out awesome. But I sure as heck wouldn't serve it to guests.
I've never taken a cooking class. When I cook, I "just do it"...
Its called "Improvised Cooking Syndrome", and a lot of us suffers from it ^^'.
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Over half of my kids turned in their guided reading packets on time. I may faint.
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"When are you going to get all these graded?"
"There's a reason I'm giving you guys about a full week of workdays on this essay."
"...ooooh."
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im an extrovert and i hate clubs. The only clubs that i have gone to and enjoyed were gay clubs. Probably because I wasnt trying to get laid there. And the DJ was actually GOOD (a true rarity).Wait what? Haven’t you been to clubs with me?
actually, i did remember every time I went to a club with you not long after hitting send- as well as your clubs. Those have to be the ONLY time I had fun at straight clubs.
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Yay is a lot warmer today than a few days ago or at least feels that way. nice to be able to wear a skirt at home again.
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Its called "Improvised Cooking Syndrome", and a lot of us suffers from it ^^'.
...Examining my emotions, I think it's because I'm a very "random" cook. Today's lunch was a good example: Week-old chicken breasts, two-week-old rice, some baked potatoes, half a bunch of celery, and some lettuce and spinach. I mixed it up into a nice Chinese-style curry that had to simmer over high heat for 45 minutes, so the unfortunate odor of the chicken breasts was completely overwhelmed (as were any bugs trying to reside in said aged chicken).The dish came out awesome. But I sure as heck wouldn't serve it to guests.
I've never taken a cooking class. When I cook, I "just do it"...
I envy people who can do this and pull it off. I'm very much a "follow the recipe" cook.
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I am sure they are all over Cheliax as well.Photo was taken right before they started yelling "Get off our lawn." :D :D :D
We have those too.
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Ah, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.
So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
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Ah, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
for the love of god, GIVE CHAOS A CHANCE!
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ASo upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
There's us lawful folk, and then there's Management. Very much two different beasts.
I mean, how could you NOT see this coming?
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for the love ofAh, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
godmackdonna shoehorn butterhorse, GIVE CHAOS A CHANCE!
Fnord that for ya
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for the love of god, GIVE CHAOS A CHANCE!Ah, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
つ ◕_◕ ༽つPRAISE HELIX つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Ah, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
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I didn't take bio because I didn't care for a crap load of Latin names. Dissection to me is fine. Just that it's a bit of a waste since you aren't eating anything you dissect. I mean heck, I used to clean fish, chicken and pork organs in the kitchen to prepare them for cooking. Aint nothing I haven't seen yet.
I don't have the ear for it, but I play piano and I'll get notes and all that right, just no inflection behind it. I actually have decent paw speed and accuracy.
I never quite worked out the voice projection trick so I tend to get hoarse very quickly at conventions.
Maths and physics. Physics is tied to maths so it eats the thought out of my brain. I generally memorize my way through Maths problems, like doing them over and over again until when I see this type of problem I know it's do 1,2,3 and 4.
Chemistry: Electrons like having full shells. The entire periodic table is all about how electrons find their friends and become a happy family.
I'm not any use at art. My drawing is not recognizable and I broke the coping saw blade the last time I tried to use one.
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First time I'll follow the recipe. Next time I'll tweak with it. Did I tell you that adding bacon bits into spaghetti gives it a nice smoky flavor?
I think that spaghetti would be improved with beef instead of pork, but no beef is allowed in the house, so oh well.
You should do it to your mash potatoes as well. Or if you want something less greasy, try adding rosemary.
Chilli powder on baked salmon also makes it taste better if you can take the spice.
Also, if you're giving cooking lessons, please measure. Nothing pisses off new cooks more when you tell them one handful, one bowl.. Etc. The measurements are to give them a grounding. Not for you if you don't need them.
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And it's all jade golem druids for this week's tavern brawl in hearthstone.
Jade idol
Jade blossom
Mark of the lotus
Call of the wild
Wrath
Jade Spirit
Celestial dreamer
Nourish
Jade Behemoth
Aya Blackpaw
Mark of the lotus and call of the wild to buff your minions, Wrath and nourish for card draw. Keep cycling your jade idols.
Celestial dreamer easily gets +2/+2 due to all those jade golems(that get progressively larger) you're throwing out.
Really if you arent a jade golem druid, forget about getting that tavern brawl done.
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So far I've had a request for a toy sold in England (it's just a megablock bag in the shape of an elephant, nothing exciting like floating knickers, a block of wood, a croquet set, or whatever passes for toys over there).
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NH - should you have told them the consequences of their actions? I mean maybe they were new and didn't know the company testing policy?
Oh, we both know the consequences. We're going to find the whole thing hilarious. Because we get to tell upper management, "Well, we followed YOUR policies to the letter. So what did WE do wrong?"
It leads to good conversations that teach management to butt out of that which they don't understand.
Unless you're in education, in which case they double down that their way is best anyway...
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Yeah I suppose sometimes people need to learn their own lessons... Like my brother chopping the onions the wrong way. I told him you were supposed to do it the other way round so they split nicely into bits once they are heated up. Since he did it the wrong way, they didnt split nicely and he had to use the spatula to try to cut it into smaller pieces in the pan.
Of course I told him, I told you so.
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つ ◕_◕ ༽つPRAISE HELIX つ ◕_◕ ༽つfor the love of god, GIVE CHAOS A CHANCE!Ah, I'm really enjoying my colleague's Lawful nature, but I'm going to pay for it tomorrow.
So, I work for a Global Megacorporation. Due to their refusal to fire anyone, no matter how incompetent, we have to deal with staggeringly-stupid people on a daily basis. In particular, before a course is released, it goes through final testing. If it doesn't work in final testing, its release has to be delayed.
So people in other departments took to just putting in comments like, "Well, this section doesn't work, but we need to get the course out on time so I'm going to pass it anyway."
Needless to say, this led to disasters and student satisfaction issues.So upper management, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that during this testing, if a lab receives any comments at all it must automatically fail. I'm really enjoying watching my colleague fail my practices with comments such as, "As of this release, they changed the name from xxx to yyy", or my favorite, "Change 'for' to 'nor'."
So tomorrow morning, my manager is going to hear that 22 of my 28 labs failed. She will explode. When she hears why, she will be furious. But he's following instructions to the letter, and I figure who am I to stop him?
No! Domecracy for all!
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On one hand I want to channel Deadpool and use excessive fourth wall breaks in front of the customers.
"Do you have this in a completely different color?... And ten percent off?"
"Hold on, let me go check!"
"Like on the island of made up toys"
On the other hand, I could just mail it in.
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Now all must fear me. I have Day of the Dead Chefwear!
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I'm into season 2 of Master of None, and this show continues to be a pleasant surprise. The first ep was in black-and-white, and I loved it despite my feelings about said style. A later ep is a series of slice-of-life vignettes with hardly an appearance by any established characters, and again I loved it despite my usual apathy toward anything without dedicated comedic relief and/or violence.
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I went with mailing it in.
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Ah yes, now come the old people with their chicken scratch poorly abbreviated lists.
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Kobolds & Catacombs is here!!! Looking at my newly-opened packs -- including a Dragoncaller Alanna pull! -- I foresee a spell-heavy and control-heavy meta. :)
Also, I am just now realizing that Blizzard is still putting out solo adventures?! I thought they stopped doing that after Karazhan, so I stopped looking. SO PSYCHED!
Also, Dire Mole. Unexciting, but power creep much?
Now all must fear me. I have Day of the Dead Chefwear!
SWEET!
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I'm into season 2 of Master of None, and this show continues to be a pleasant surprise. The first ep was in black-and-white, and I loved it despite my feelings about said style. A later ep is a series of slice-of-life vignettes with hardly an appearance by any established characters, and again I loved it despite my usual apathy toward anything without dedicated comedic relief and/or violence.
This is good to know! My wife and I were thinking of getting into it, so it's nice to have a recommendation!
I went with mailing it in.
Probably for the best.
... despite how awesome it would look on the security cameras later...
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Kobolds & Catacombs is here!!! Looking at my newly-opened packs -- including a Dragoncaller Alanna pull! -- I foresee a spell-heavy and control-heavy meta. :)
Also, I am just now realizing that Blizzard is still putting out solo adventures?! I thought they stopped doing that after Karazhan, so I stopped looking. SO PSYCHED!
Also, Dire Mole. Unexciting, but power creep much?
SWEET!