Fuck me. I hate feeling crappy, but not actually bad enough to justify leaving work. Stupid low-grade migraine. If I could just close my eyes for a while, everything would be OK.
Instead, I file.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 8:58:53 am PDT #1829 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Calli - Jul 21, 2005 9:04:53 am PDT #1830 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Emily, I don't know if it would be at all useful to you, but there are some high school level science lesson plans here. It's a pilot program that the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, the NIEHS Community Outreach and Education Program, and a few universities are doing. Maybe they would have some useful ideas or suchlike.
sarameg - Jul 21, 2005 9:11:03 am PDT #1831 of 10002
Poor Jesse. Maybe just take a break and rest your eyes a bit?
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 9:21:17 am PDT #1832 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I'm doing a bit of that.
Oh, in other Jesse's body news, I do think those bug bites were from the flies at the beach, as there have not been any new bites. But man, those itched for a long time!
lori - Jul 21, 2005 9:22:13 am PDT #1833 of 10002
File with your eyes closed. It's funner that way.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 9:22:59 am PDT #1834 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, that's a plan.
-t - Jul 21, 2005 9:33:44 am PDT #1835 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Probably too late for Emily, and not likely to be relevant, but I have a survey taking story.
There were people taking surveys all the time at my college, a lot classses required it for one reason or another. One particular one had the respondents sample two cola drinks and choose which they preferred. I tasted both and said I couldn't tell the difference. "Just pick one" the data gatherer said. So I did,a dn she marked down my choice.
And then revealed that the two colas were, in fact, identical and the survey was supposed to show something about people perceiving differences that weren't really there.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 9:35:29 am PDT #1836 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Ah, but if it were science, it wouldn't be so frelling hard!
It doesn't help that the guy teaching this class is a science teacher. So he keeps saying things like, "I think this is probably much harder for you math and foreign language teachers," and then giving another science example.
Anyway, the learning plan's done. Now I have to "justify" it and "reflect" on it.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 9:36:37 am PDT #1837 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
And then revealed that the two colas were, in fact, identical and the survey was supposed to show something about people perceiving differences that weren't really there.
I see a lot of surveys like that -- forcing a choice between things that maybe you don't find all that different, and then making some conclusion about people's preferences. Whichever.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2005 9:50:27 am PDT #1838 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In High school I took a 5 day long survey that listed about 50 personality traits of characteristics (happy-go-lucky, intelligent, good a sports, stingy). Each day we were given a new ethnic group, and told to mark down the traits we thought that ethnic group had.
It really bugged me, so I wrote about it in the school paper (and I just marked down a "yes" for all the traits for all the ethnicities, because I was told that I couldn't not answer). It was very bizarre.