Crumbs, Suzi - that doesn't sound good! Best of luck with the job hunt, though, love!

...I feel a bit silly reiterating what Kristin said, because she wins at the summarising, I think. So - everything she said. And also - glad PC's date went well, uselessly sorry for the awfulness of having to write a 'sorry you're dying' card, hope Emily's Discussion Thingy went well, and Toto's expression of bemusement was adorable. Um.

Meanwhile - I can haz trip to Singapore! To hook up with a very dear friend from Egypt, and possibly gatecrash a total stranger's wedding! (I'm assuming Muslim wedding, although it might not be.)

jiggles pornpoms once again.

GRONK!

jiggles pornpoms once again.

Now there's a happy sight to wake up to. Thank you so, dearest, beloved Fay.

Ok. It figures. I fuss about work and then I get bcc'ed on the following e-mail to my boss from the gal I trained with in DC.

Just wanted to let you know what a great job Suzi has been doing as my back up for CBR/TIA support.

As well as providing user support during my absences, she has taken over complete responsibility for our time dependent monthly data transfers to AP from the various team firms we support.

She has done an excellent job finding work around the various problems that come up every month and has been able to provide insightful answers to our CH users when problems occur. She has also been extremely professional in dealing with our corporate interfaces (always the most difficult part of the job).

Ok. People. I'm trying to pay my bills online. I do this because I don't want to talk to a person. So, why have 2 of the 3 sites I've visited to pay my bills have been down for scheduled maintenance. Don't you want my money?!

Gronk.

Random question: What sort of process do you use for doing subtraction in your head? Like, if I had to figure out 52-37, I would think 52-30=22, 22-7=15, but I've been told that this seems strange to other people. I don't think I was ever taught that method -- it's just what seems natural to my brain. So do other people do it that way, or some other way, or think through the regular written process, with "borrow a ten, 2 becomes 12, 5 becomes 4" and so on?

(Got onto this train of thought in sign class last night, when we were doing a bunch of exercises in learning the signs for numbers and the signs for "give," "take," and a few other words like that, where we'd watch someone sign something like, "Sally has 50 cents. Bob has 45 cents. Sally give 15 cents to Bob. Jane takes 30 cents from Bob. How much money does Bob have?" and, even though I'm generally considered pretty bad at mental arithmetic, I was the first one to have the answer to every one of them. So I got wondering about how other people process this.)

Brains are neat.

I think I do, 50 - 30 is 20, 7>2 so 10, 12 - 7 is 5, 15. Which may not be the best way to do it, since I've been known to skip the "7>2 so subtract 10" step, but it's what I do.

Hil, you'd probably be interested in this LJ entry (actually, both these entries), which poses almost the exact same question:

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She's got a tag for other math-related entries and math teacher stuff.

Hil, I think I do it the way you do it. I also add the same way - tens first then the ones.

Thanks Dana. That's really interesting.

Random question: What sort of process do you use for doing subtraction in your head? Like, if I had to figure out 52-37, I would think 52-30=22, 22-7=15, but I've been told that this seems strange to other people. I don't think I was ever taught that method -- it's just what seems natural to my brain. So do other people do it that way, or some other way, or think through the regular written process, with "borrow a ten, 2 becomes 12, 5 becomes 4" and so on?

I would do 52-7=45 and 45-30=15. No one taught me it either.