Somehow, I had imagined a sound designer to be much more MATHY!

That's the part that makes me chuckle now. I actually do need a fair amount of math for the work that I do now.

I turns out I'm pretty well balanced left brain/right brain wise which I think is part of the reason I can excel in my field. I can do all of the artistic work, and the script analysis and the design work, and then seamlessly switch gears and do the tech head stuff to make all of the arty stuff sound great. I think it's also why this career is so fufulling for me, it really pulls at both sides of me.

I cried in math class, frequently; math made me cry anywhere and everywhere, except on multiple-choice aptitude tests

So. Completely. Me.

I'm firmly convinced that the only reason I passed my Trig class senior year was because I cried. And well, I had pneumonia. And I was the class award getter and failing at the last minute would have made the Superintendent's speech about how scholarly, leadershippy and citizenshippy I was kinda ring like tin.

Aaaa. It's all political.

I think it's also why this career is so fufulling for me, it really pulls at both sides of me.

As a costume construction persn, I laugh at non-MATHy me doing all sorts of fraction calculation in my head. It turns out i CAn do it if it really matters.

I'm pleased to report that my furnace is finally really fixed. They didn't show up until 7:45, but it only took them about a half hour. Whew.

P-C, in response to the cancellation of DLM, we canceled Showtime. So hah! Then we ordered DVR, because we couldn't imagine the cable bill being...you know...cheaper.

Speaking of working appliances.

Remember my dead mouse in the kitchen wall story?

WELL.

Another mouse climbed into the fridge motor and stopped it cold. No pun intended. I had to schlep all my food downstairs to the liquor store coolers.

But the fella who came to fix the fridge seemed competant, so I mentioned that, for 6 years, my stove has been zapping me every time I touch it with wet hands. (who needs a defib? come on over for supper!)

He did some tinkering, discovered a defective ground, fixed it and now, for the very first time, the clock, timer and clean function...well...functions!

It's like a little holiday miracle. (except for the dead mouse parts, may they rest in peace and not stink anymore.)

t /easily pleased

eta: congrats Deena. I share your joy.

Skipping all but the last 100.

I, too took the ACT, but cannot remember what I got.

I wonder if I can find out?

ETA: Apparently for $19.

No thanks.

Tests fascinate me. Thus, lots of things to say.

got 5.0 out of 6, graded in half steps.

Exactly the same score I got. I, too, was disappointed, until I learned that each and every one of my best friends got exactly the same. Including two literature majors. With 3.8+ GPAs in the major. So I relaxed.

I did the SAT in 7th grade thing, too. It had something to do with Duke University, I don't really remember.

I took the ACT for it, but it's the same program. At the time it was called "TIP," the "Talent Identification Program." If you did well enough (arbitrary scores were set as "well enough") then you were invited to participate in summer programs at Duke or Davidson college. I did a couple of them, one at each school. They were great fun. One of the most important growth/learning experiences of my life and whatnot.

got an invite to MENSA along with a National Merit Scholarship

I was annoyed that MENSA stopped accepting the SAT/ACT as reasonable tests to judge (though it was a sensible decsion on their part, I believe) because I don't want to pay to take a real IQ test just to be able to say I'm smart. So I just go around saying I'm smart instead, and when people challenge me to produce my MENSA card I talk about math until they go away. It works.

There was probably math he has never even seen.

No "probably." There was definitely math he hadn't seen. I believe a 530 math is probably above that TIP cutoff I mentioned earlier, I know it was a 21 on the ACT. If he gets a chance to go to one of those programs, and that's why he took the test, you should encourage it if you can afford it.

I don't remember the math on the SAT. I remember it on the GRE.

They are pretty much the exact same. The GRE math is only very very slightly more advanced (which is why my perfect 800 on the math nets me a mere 92nd percentile, while my 690 on the verbal gets me 95th. Crazy.)

Do people even take the ACT anymore?

It is very very common in the deep South. My high school (in Tupelo, MS) gives it every couple of months, but I had to drive for an hour to a community college to take the SAT. From what I can tell, most Californians and Arizonians do NOT take the ACT, and the east coast is almost exclusively SAT, even more than out here.

The ACT is totally a better test. But ETS is much better at convincing people to take their tests than whoever does the ACT, for some reason.

Note: All of my above statements are about today's SAT and GRE tests. Many of you old elderly more mature aged wiser and sexier Bitches probably took a slightly different version with very different statistics. There were huge changes sometime in the late '80s or early '90s.

Also, congratulations to -t! I love baby pictures. Thus, I love babies in Bitches.

Polter-Cow needs to be a writer.

I wish I did not have a cold.

Super sekrit mssg for P-C: Tegan and Sara are on Conan O'Brien tonight.

Super sekrit mssg for P-C:

Those names make me think more of Dr. Who....

Gah, beej. I don't even know what to say.

I hope you really like where you live, even with the live/deadstock and the wonky electricity.