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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I haven't done anything seriesly in years.
The ideal life for me (one version anyway) would be to live at the beach where I could paint and write all the time.
I had two years of high school Physics and/or Calculus in high school, they ran together at times. I went on and took one quarter of it in college, and quickly realized I hadn't really liked the Calculus, I liked the high school math teacher. :~D
Ya know, this sounds like such a little thing, but my day was just made.
Went down to heat up my lunch (we don't have a microwave here, so I have to go downstairs to another office), and there were three big bags of dried beans on the table by the microwave. Turned out one of the people in that office had been given them, but doesn't ever cook with dried beans, so she had put them there for anyone to take, and they'd been sitting for awhile with no takers. So...I guess it was greedy of me, but I took 'em, all three.
Between that and frozen vegetables and frozen ground beef and canned tomatoes and such...I'll have plenty of food for the next few weeks! I can make beans with salsa...or chili...or some sort of barbeque like sauce with Splenda...
I'm tickled...means I can use money for other things.
I'd love to get paints out again too. I used to paint along with Bob Ross :~D
LOL!
My mother had the opposite experience. She hated her high school math teacher so much that she never took higher math.
Me, I loved physics...didn't care for most other math above Algebra.
Just peered over Joshua's shoulder at his worktext he was working on. He had to look at picture then read a list of words and choose the word that went with the picture. Like a picture of a cat with the words pup, cat, hut next to it. Then he had to circle the correct word. He did this as "silent" reading...and he just did great...quickly and accurately.
I paused his tape and knelt down beside him and said "You know, Joshua...you can't ever say 'I can't read' again...some kids your age might say 'I can't read.', but you can't say that any more. You CAN read!"
He just beamed. I'm so tickled for him.
[shudder]
I didn't like her. She didn't like me.
Jehovah Jireh, my friend...happens to us now and then, just when we need it most.
I wouldn't say I ~hate~ math, I just don't go out of my way to do more than I absolutely need. I got up to Trigonometry in HS and then fullfilled the math requirement in college (with College Algebra), and that was that.
The rest of my family, however... I may have mentioned this before, but my dad is a middle school math teacher (who teaches a couple college classes on the side), my mother is a college math teacher, and my brother is a college math professor and is now the Dean of the math department (and is my parents' boss to boot, heh). In fact, my dad is strange enough that he likes to sit around with a book of math puzzles for fun.
I had advanced music theory to get my analytical side in shape! ;~)
Well, I only liked Calculus because the Physics teacher taught it in the same practical way as physics. His test questions would have these long story problems of him fishing in a boat drifting in x direction with the tide current going y mph, and the 300 pound fish would pull in z direction with this much force. That was just the meat and bones of it, the rest of the question was this long funny essay about what the day was like, what he had for lunch, the joys of fishing, and the punch line would be that we'd have to figure out how far off course the fish dragged him, and whether he'd be able to motor home in time for dinner.
Jehovah Jireh
My provider
You are more than enough for me.
Jehovah Raphai
You're my healer
By your stripes I've been set free.
Jehovah Shammah
You are with me
You supply all my need.
You're more than enough
More than enough
More than enough for me.
(with special thanks to the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir)
**smiling**
But music theory has that math component as well. I made it through the first year. Second year I changed my major to English after the first quarter.
I do feel a little bad for taking all three bags...but then, if no one else had snatched 'em up...why not, right?
Heh...
Your pride for him is so important, 2J!!
Don't look a gift bean in the mouth.
If they weren't gone the first day, then you've nothing to be concerned about...unless yer inviting some dwarves over fer beans...
:-)
Ha ha ha!!! Just now he had 9 almonds and his teacher was teaching him 9-1=8...
I leaned over and said "Nine almonds take away one almond is how many?" He grinned REALLY big and said "EAT!" and ate the almond!
ROFLOL!
I agree...the beans were obviously meant for you.
Heh...comedian in training?
I am sure I'm biased, but I think my jedis are a hoot.
I guess we really do like each other, since we're stuck in this house together all day long and we get along!
I gotta check on the chickens...brb.
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