The Life Experience ~ Fall '14
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bloodyrosemccoyWhat I've Learned Since The Fall Equinox
- Finnish-speakers play havoc with their own crazy case system, because there are so many different dialects.
- Enameled copper can offer some bright colors to your chainmaille, but boy is it soft!
- My original query letter was probably better than the revamped one.
- Hatching birds' wings look ridiculously flippery and adorable.
- Flu shots do not make you invincible.
- There actually is a way to fix the digestive issues I've had since getting rid of the chestburster. Figures I'd take 14 months to actually think to ask my doctor about it.
- I apparently don't remember the periodic table at all. Everything I thought I knew turned out to be wrong.
- Body cameras on cops apparently wouldn't help, as grand juries will see videos of cops committing homicide and still not indict.
- Remember to oil your bottle capper or it will lock up annoyingly.
- There really were some Chuck E. Cheese murders back in the day, which might be what Five Nights At Freddy's is based on.
- Upon going to schools for Space Place Outreach, I realized that all of those damn posters all over the wall are a huge problem for me because I have to read them. The other person has to keep snapping me out of a daze. God, I must have been so overstimulated as a student.
- Gifted education is a lot more difficult than I expected.
- I am okay at making lecture plans, but activity plans are beyond me.
- Surface tension keeps your tears stuck to your face out in space.
- After you've poured boiling water on your fingers, you might have to drain your blisters just to keep them from exploding when you flex your fingers.
- Checking out sunspots with solar filters is pretty dang cool.
- Suddenly becoming a de facto homeowner is a daunting prospect.
- There is methane on Mars! HMMM.
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Date: 2014-12-22 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-22 03:50 am (UTC)Yep!
(All I can hope about body cams is it draws more of the public into the 'yes, the police really do this shit and don't get indicted, let alone convicted'.)
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Date: 2014-12-22 07:26 am (UTC)Body cams aren't a solution. But in a number of cities that have used them extensively, the number of reports of police brutality have gone way down. They help, but not always, and not all the way. They're probably a good idea anyhow, from an evidence collection point of view and such. But we need some serious fundamental reworking on the system to actually fix the problem.
Chuck E. Cheese is possibly the most violent restaurant chain in the US (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122878081364889613). Cops in many cities say they get more calls for fights there than at biker bars.
I was always annoyed in school that there was all this cool stuff up on the walls and around in the classrooms, and we never got time to check it out.
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Date: 2014-12-22 08:11 am (UTC)I love how bizarrely gummy hatchlings look. Like they're ballistics gel that's come to life.
I did not know that about Chuck E. Cheese! But I do know my brother was almost kidnapped from one once. (It might've still been a Showbiz Pizza at the time, but same difference.)
I get annoyed at how inane all the school posters are and yet I still have to look at them.
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Date: 2014-12-22 08:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-23 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-22 08:11 am (UTC)There's a reason why I'll never learn Finnish, even though my parents are both Finns.
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Date: 2014-12-23 04:31 am (UTC)I'm not sure that I could come up with such a list - nor would it be as interesting.