I'd have to bone up on various subjects before trying out for Jeopardy, namely geography (at which I'm quite bad), opera/classical music, botany, and math.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Jan 11, 2010 10:46:35 am PST #787 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Strix - Jan 11, 2010 10:47:44 am PST #788 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Geography, yeppers.
msbelle - Jan 11, 2010 10:48:03 am PST #789 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Oh that kitchen has me thinking. One of the things that I may very likely need to do renovation wise when I move is add additional counterspace to divide a kitchen eating area from a living space - an old bar would work really well.
beth b - Jan 11, 2010 10:50:28 am PST #790 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I feel like I should be listening to Kathy . Losing 30 to 50 lbs would make many things much more manageable.
Today I am vaguely cranky with my drifty ways.
Kathy A - Jan 11, 2010 10:52:12 am PST #791 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've got to start making my appointments for all the doctors I have to see before I can schedule my surgery, otherwise I won't be having it until April at the earliest.
Shari_H - Jan 11, 2010 10:55:21 am PST #792 of 30001
Keep breathing!
Put me with the people who took typing in high school, also shorthand. I don't remember how to make many specific letters in shorthand, but I kept all the little words/combinations (the, to, to-the, in, in-the, able, will, willing, do, of, of-the, etc.) which I used extensively in note-taking in school. In grad school in Israel, I took my notes in an ugly mix of English, Hebrew, and shorthand. No one ever borrowed MY notes!
Kathy A - Jan 11, 2010 10:57:38 am PST #793 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My handwriting has degenerated horribly over the years. I'm not looking forward to my first graduate class next week--I'll probably be spending the hour after class typing up my notes just so I can read them.
This looks like an excellent source for geography quizzes.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2010 11:00:56 am PST #794 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks for the link, smonster. Now it's just about setting aside the time to do it justice.
I use math shorthand in my note taking. So things like ∃ and ∀ pop up here and there. Mrs. Shaw would be so proud...
Okay, back to the damned migration mapping. It's kicking my ass.
Fred Pete - Jan 11, 2010 11:12:18 am PST #795 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I also took typing in high school. Class was about 2/3 female, if memory serves. And my parents gave me a typewriter for a graduation present.
Came in real, real handy at college in the (pre-word processing) early '80s, when I didn't have to pay anyone to type my papers, including an 80-page honors thesis (double-spaced) that went through several drafts. By the time I finished that thesis, I was doing at least 80 words a minute.
Calli - Jan 11, 2010 11:14:08 am PST #796 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I took typing in junior high. It was on manual typewriters, though, so even today I use about six times the force needed on my computer keyboard. When I was temping I managed ~100 wpm. This is why I like communicating via email at work. I can type as fast as I can speak (if not faster), and I have a trail of who said/did/committed to what.