Ailleann, aren't you up Northwest, where it's actually worse? You should get to go home. Seriously.

I'm on the south side, by 23/270. I live a sneeze's worth north of 670, so not too far away from here. It's about a 12 mile commute, so I don't think getting home will be prohibitively difficult.

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I'm just wondering if my library book that's due today would be overdue if I returned it tomorrow, since the libraries are closed.

The "how you are" thing cracks me up. I totally got the Jordan Catalano love, or, well, lust. Shame Jared Leto's such a waste of space.

We used to tell our students that a given task was easy; that they could do it. But then they'd get frustrated and angry when it wasn't easy for them, so we realized we needed to switch. Now we tell them that it is a difficult task, but they can do it anyway.

I was told this as a difference between male and female students. Men were supposed to react well to being told a task they hadn't mastered was easy, and women better to being told it was hard.

So far I've tried to pay attention to that, and have noticed in other people's classes women getting quite angry and frustrated when told that what they can't do is easy.

Generally splitting feedback along those gender lines has worked out well for me so far.

have noticed in other people's classes women getting quite angry and frustrated when told that what they can't do is easy.

nothing makes me angrier. I mean if I'm having a hard time with it is obviously not easy for ME!

Oooh, they're closing the office. I have to do my conference call, but after that I'm going. Whee!

Great moments in tech support [link] (note: sound, video, consider yourselves warned)

Why doesn't weather hate Las Vegas?

The tacky bright lights blind the storm clouds and make them turn away?

Where are these office-closing storms happening? Ohio?

Where are these office-closing storms happening? Ohio?

Yup. I, in fact, gave myself a snow day, because we've got the icy rain/sleet/slushy nastiness. Even the university is closed, and it's notorious for NEVER closing, no matter what the weather.

Remember the lady with the trash car that was mentioned here yesterday? It turns out that she has two other trash-filled cars and a houseful of trash (so much that the front door won't close, seriously).

I feel SO much better about my lack of housekeeping motivation. Because ALL of *my* doors close.

I mean if I'm having a hard time with it is obviously not easy for ME!

I much prefer the "you're almost there" approach. But it still has to be used gently, because it can feel very far away when you're not the one getting it.

Sometimes, man, I'm telling my body to do it, and nothing relevant happens. Truly frustrating. What it usually takes is going back to the beginning of a move, and working out an intermediary step that has my body feel the right sensation, and then trying to move again. Which is to say--there's a quantum leap I'm missing, and keeping on with the same approach is what'll make me mad and dispirited. A good instructor works out how to go back to the drawing board, or how to move on, with the hopes that another day and another class make be the straw that breaks the hesitation's back.

Man, I want to be sent home!!