24 September
Okay, yesterday was better.
What happened on Wednesday was that I was submarined--that I got in enormous trouble with no warning, or actually I did get a warning, but the warning was ignored. Not by me, but by them.
I think that if one is told on Monday that if one doesn't shape the hell up, one shouldn't get in trouble on Wednesday for the same thing that they were talking about on Monday, and I had been working really hard for those two days!
I think either I shouldn't have been given the warning, or I should have actually been given the time to shape the hell up!
Anyway, I was especially mad at The Raccoon for not warning me of the submarining, because I thought that she was my friend, and if it was going to happen, fine, but I could have been prepared for it.
Yesterday she told me that she had no idea that it was going to happen until it did, so I'm not mad at her anymore.
In other work news, we got a new cute Russian accountant yesterday, with ears that stick out like open car doors--and I was able to start insulting him within minutes and he got the joke!
The last person that the Evil Bitch Overlord hired was such a hideous disaster that we'll have to wait and see whether this one's an idiot, too, but at least he has a sense of humour.
We were talking about learning to read, being left handed, and dyslexia on one of my mailing lists yesterday, which inspired such an unusually long response from me that I decided to recycle it here:
My love of reading comes from my Da, who read to me in the cradle and who gave me cloth books that I would cuddle with. He was a wonderful reader-out-loud, doing the voices and things. I had never heard the term "chapter books" until this group, but I do know that besides Dr. Suess and a couple other little books, I never read anything else. Every time I visit my old grade school, my 7th and 8th grade teacher Mr. Biegel puts his arm around me and announces to the room "This was the only child I ever had to say 'Stop reading so much' to!"
In re handedness, I am a proud lefty, and have always been able to write backwards as easily as forwards, but upside-down and both hands at once never occurred to me! I am also dyslexic, blowing that 'dyslexics are late readers' theory out of the water! However, it never really affected me reading as I learned in my head how to go around the dyslexia and read the words properly. I have no idea how to explain it. I think I was smarter when I was three than I am now.
Writing was more of a problem, though (if I have to write that someone lives in Apt. 3E I'm almost certain to get it wrong!) and I wrote my Zs backwards for the longest time, seeing no difference. Not a problem for most children, except that my last name begins with a Z, so it did come up often!
I also couldn't see the difference in my shoes, left and right shoe, for MUCH longer than I should have. I'd just have to put them on and find out that way.
I still don't know left from right, something I attribute more to being a lefty than being a dyslexic, as in this right-centric world, right is dominant, but for me left is dominant, so if someone says to turn right I will often confidently sail left unless I think carefully about it first.
In the "Next Saturday" update, I am still one vote ahead of Melissa the score being 29-28! I think that we're really gonna have to call it a tie, because we have never been more than two votes apart at any time.
The polls are closed. Next Saturday is a term that should never be used, because whomever you say it to will be certain to have a different definition than you!
"But I thought that when you said 'next Saturday' you meant the first Saturday in February!"
This woman knows Columbine, had her band pictures taken long ago by my ex-boyfriend, Greg, and posted most of the preceding information in a message to a children's book mailing list I'm on!
These are three sections of my life that do not touch at all. It seems that Sharyn is the exact centre of my universe, and I have no idea who she is!
Today's horoscope:
People around you seem stodgy and stuck-in-the-mud or erratic, irresponsible and
weird. Their example helps you reconcile these opposites.
One year ago today:
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing
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