![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Aug. 16th, 2005
(no subject)
Aug. 16th, 2005 07:06 pmGratuitous Icon Postage, pt. 1
Hee hee hee....
Downloaded two vegan-related icons. I'd been looking for a good one for a while, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soycupcake made some out of various items sold by Herbivore Clothing. They also make Herbivore magazine, which I love.
Anyway.
Woohoo!!
Hee hee hee....
Downloaded two vegan-related icons. I'd been looking for a good one for a while, and
soycupcake made some out of various items sold by Herbivore Clothing. They also make Herbivore magazine, which I love. Anyway.
Woohoo!!
(no subject)
Aug. 16th, 2005 07:16 pmMy other new icon, of course. Should come in handy here and there.
I was reading a friend's thing on ADD, and apparently it's not just me, it's an ADD thing: I can only remember something if it's connected to something else.
This was driven home to me last week. I opened up the back door before turning off the alarm, and because it was the back door it immediately went into that horrible "whoop! whoop!" noise that means it's going to call the cops. I turned it off but didn't hit cancel, so the alarm company called to ask if everything was all right. Then they wanted the password, and I couldn't remember it. My dad's told it to me a few times, and I totally blanked. I went upstairs to findruby_wings, and when I said her name her head popped up from the blankets, her face all squinched up and her hair all curly around her face, and she said the password (which is a really goofy word) in a flat voice.
The sight of that was so comical (sorry, but it's true) that I'll never forget the damn password.
I have an excellent head for trivia, because it's all connected to something. I've got a reputation among my coworkers, actually. One asked me today if salt water taffy had real salt water in it, and I was able to tell her: It depends on the brand, but if they do, it's not seawater, it's purified sea salt dissolved in water, because seawater is polluted and nasty.
I can tell you that the American Psychological Association decided that homosexuality wasn't a mental illness in 1973. I can tell you that the recreation of Plimoth Village is 2.something miles from the original site and that it's reenacted to be exactly 1627. I can tell you that Strattera is an SNRI, a Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor. I can tell you that broiler chickens in a modern farm get less room to stand on than the size of a piece of notebook paper. I can tell you that there are 275,000 people in Iceland (approximately), that there are 13 sheep for every person in New Zealand, and that West Virginia was formed when it split off from Confederate Virginia during the Civil War. I can tell you every phone number I've had since first grade except for one, and keep in mind I've moved a lot.
I know all of these things because they relate to me or to something else I already know. If something seems unconnected, I'll have a really hard time remembering it. The only reason I can do my job is because I know how the actual department works--when I try to memorize how to do individual tasks I screw up, but the more I know about how files move around and why we do things certain ways, the better I get at my job.
It's all about context!
My mom's cooking for a whole bunch of us now that Chris is back from Drum Corps stuff. So it'll be DJ andsilverrose79 and Chris and ruby_wings and my parents and....me. Just like Thanksgiving, actually. I commented to my mom that it's too bad dragon_mintz works tonight, but then, that's probably a rather intimidating way to get to know all of them: all at once. *lol*
I was reading a friend's thing on ADD, and apparently it's not just me, it's an ADD thing: I can only remember something if it's connected to something else.
This was driven home to me last week. I opened up the back door before turning off the alarm, and because it was the back door it immediately went into that horrible "whoop! whoop!" noise that means it's going to call the cops. I turned it off but didn't hit cancel, so the alarm company called to ask if everything was all right. Then they wanted the password, and I couldn't remember it. My dad's told it to me a few times, and I totally blanked. I went upstairs to find
ruby_wings, and when I said her name her head popped up from the blankets, her face all squinched up and her hair all curly around her face, and she said the password (which is a really goofy word) in a flat voice. The sight of that was so comical (sorry, but it's true) that I'll never forget the damn password.
I have an excellent head for trivia, because it's all connected to something. I've got a reputation among my coworkers, actually. One asked me today if salt water taffy had real salt water in it, and I was able to tell her: It depends on the brand, but if they do, it's not seawater, it's purified sea salt dissolved in water, because seawater is polluted and nasty.
I can tell you that the American Psychological Association decided that homosexuality wasn't a mental illness in 1973. I can tell you that the recreation of Plimoth Village is 2.something miles from the original site and that it's reenacted to be exactly 1627. I can tell you that Strattera is an SNRI, a Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor. I can tell you that broiler chickens in a modern farm get less room to stand on than the size of a piece of notebook paper. I can tell you that there are 275,000 people in Iceland (approximately), that there are 13 sheep for every person in New Zealand, and that West Virginia was formed when it split off from Confederate Virginia during the Civil War. I can tell you every phone number I've had since first grade except for one, and keep in mind I've moved a lot.
I know all of these things because they relate to me or to something else I already know. If something seems unconnected, I'll have a really hard time remembering it. The only reason I can do my job is because I know how the actual department works--when I try to memorize how to do individual tasks I screw up, but the more I know about how files move around and why we do things certain ways, the better I get at my job.
It's all about context!
My mom's cooking for a whole bunch of us now that Chris is back from Drum Corps stuff. So it'll be DJ and
silverrose79 and Chris and ruby_wings and my parents and....me. Just like Thanksgiving, actually. I commented to my mom that it's too bad dragon_mintz works tonight, but then, that's probably a rather intimidating way to get to know all of them: all at once. *lol*
(no subject)
Aug. 16th, 2005 09:17 pmMy mom and I, on a whim, each had a (relatively mild) tequila sunrise before dinner. My dad had a rather large quantity of my citrus vodka mixed with orange juice. And then we all had beer.
Yeah. My family is even goofier when intoxicated. We keep laughing and laughing and laughing....oh wait, that's just me. The bad, bad, gutter-level jokes were rampant. I'm trying to think if any of them are repeatable, especially out of context.
Damn, I wanna smoke. Grrr. I drink tequila, I wanna smoke. I smoke, I want tequila. *shrug*
Yeah. My family is even goofier when intoxicated. We keep laughing and laughing and laughing....oh wait, that's just me. The bad, bad, gutter-level jokes were rampant. I'm trying to think if any of them are repeatable, especially out of context.
Damn, I wanna smoke. Grrr. I drink tequila, I wanna smoke. I smoke, I want tequila. *shrug*