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Kite to pull ship - A shipping company feels that this new kite is somehow an improvement on sails. The project manager says that it's not like sails because somehow she thinks that with sails you need "backward winds," but with this kite "there can also be side winds and you can still set sail." I guess she's never heard of tacking, which can be done into a headwind.
I'm having a great deal of trouble getting myself to move in any direction at all this morning. I was going to make a pie, but I can't see that happening today. I'm too nervous. I've collected a bunch of recipes, but I'm just not sure what to choose from them. It's all in getting the balance of sugar (I don't like overly sweet pies) and thickener (tapioca flour or potato starch?) and liquid (to add water or not to add water?) correct, I think. I have two pie shells and hoped to use one for a top crust, but crumble crusts or latticework seem favored in most recipes, which I suppose means that a lot of water needs to escape.
I have been musing, lately, over whether it's sensible for me to attempt to go back to school for Nursing. Eor thinks there may be some classes or tests or hoops that I can and must get out of the way before I get involved in the meat of the course, anyway, so that I wouldn't have to quit my job right now and dedicate myself to it. But I can't make any sense out of the site - I'm not even sure if I should be applying as a graduate, an undergraduate or ... what. I feel like an idiot, because I'm sure everyone on my flist understands all these things, but I'm going to expose myself here and admit that I never understood the system at USM, even when I was there. The first week of classes I would still be running around trying to figure out what the hell was going on with paperwork and such, office to office. They were always exasperated with me ("you have to do THIS before you can do THAT") but I could never see why they didn't have a nice flow-chart with everything timetabled on it: Step 1, due Feb 1 - Write an essay, "Why I want to attend your college," and mail it to [address]. Etc.
My father said the point was to screen out people who weren't serious. I understood this to mean "People who aren't smart enough," and have always been terrified of admitting the fact that it all made no freaking sense to me, because I'm sure this means I'm really not smart enough.
Eor said I should get in touch with someone from Advising and ask questions, but I couldn't find any phone number for Advising, or any email address...
So, finally, today, I decided maybe I should get over that, and I wrote an email to the one address they have on the website and asked for help. I don't know if this was the right thing to do or not, but it's done.
So, yeah. I guess I should calm myself by focusing down to the minute, and just go do some dishes.
I'm having a great deal of trouble getting myself to move in any direction at all this morning. I was going to make a pie, but I can't see that happening today. I'm too nervous. I've collected a bunch of recipes, but I'm just not sure what to choose from them. It's all in getting the balance of sugar (I don't like overly sweet pies) and thickener (tapioca flour or potato starch?) and liquid (to add water or not to add water?) correct, I think. I have two pie shells and hoped to use one for a top crust, but crumble crusts or latticework seem favored in most recipes, which I suppose means that a lot of water needs to escape.
I have been musing, lately, over whether it's sensible for me to attempt to go back to school for Nursing. Eor thinks there may be some classes or tests or hoops that I can and must get out of the way before I get involved in the meat of the course, anyway, so that I wouldn't have to quit my job right now and dedicate myself to it. But I can't make any sense out of the site - I'm not even sure if I should be applying as a graduate, an undergraduate or ... what. I feel like an idiot, because I'm sure everyone on my flist understands all these things, but I'm going to expose myself here and admit that I never understood the system at USM, even when I was there. The first week of classes I would still be running around trying to figure out what the hell was going on with paperwork and such, office to office. They were always exasperated with me ("you have to do THIS before you can do THAT") but I could never see why they didn't have a nice flow-chart with everything timetabled on it: Step 1, due Feb 1 - Write an essay, "Why I want to attend your college," and mail it to [address]. Etc.
My father said the point was to screen out people who weren't serious. I understood this to mean "People who aren't smart enough," and have always been terrified of admitting the fact that it all made no freaking sense to me, because I'm sure this means I'm really not smart enough.
Eor said I should get in touch with someone from Advising and ask questions, but I couldn't find any phone number for Advising, or any email address...
So, finally, today, I decided maybe I should get over that, and I wrote an email to the one address they have on the website and asked for help. I don't know if this was the right thing to do or not, but it's done.
So, yeah. I guess I should calm myself by focusing down to the minute, and just go do some dishes.