What Annoyed you today

[dewilliams2]

I don't mean to sound condescending but most people who say math is boring don't understand it

I'm not an expert by any means but I did well in what I took in high school. I graduated with honors and had A's in all of my math classes even though I hated them.

Short story is I kinda took off my first two years of high school and just got by, got a lot of C's and D's with a few B's and most of my A's were in history, literature, and music. Basically I was smoking a lot of pot during that time and just doing enough to not fail. My junior year my guidance counselor was talking to me and somehow it came up that she said "you can't graduate with honors"....don't tell me I can't do something...so I got nothing but A's the next two years. Of course I had to take some classes over including math that I had got D's in....second time around I replaced them with A's. I graduated with honors so in a way I suppose she did inspire me by being a bitch which I am thankful for and at graduation I received the principal's spirit award for my academic turn around. Truly I am glad because it was about my junior year I realized I wanted to go to college as well.

So no I am not an expert but I always understood what I took. I just don't like it. There is no story with it...I don't care what X is...I have no interest in finding that out...the revelation of the great mystery of what the equation equals is not exciting for me. I mean understanding why civilization iis the way it is tends to be far more interesting to me and I feel that is learned through history....I at least know how we arrived at this point even if I don't always understand why we did what we did, I know how we did it.

Imagine for example if the Moors had never invaded Spain...there never would have been the reconquest and you have to wonder if Spain would have unified. If it hadn't would there have been a kingdom in the year 1492 with the money and interest to fund Christopher Columbus in his little exploratory expedition that discovered the Americas and began the Columbian exchange...and it just keeps going and it is all throughout history....I find that interesting....knowing what X is...not so much.

[dewilliams2]

That's odd. I thought that math was a requirement for studying law. The lawyer I dated years ago majored in poli sci and math. Maybe standards are slipping.

You can major in numerous things and enter law school....perhaps he was going into business law?

My friend majored in philosophy and that was his only major and he got accepted to IU law school last year...I think it just varies by school and by what type of law you wish to study.

[Charlie Boy II]

I'm annoyed at myself for going out the last two nights in a row and now I'm too hungover to study properly. It's 2.23pm on Sunday here. Alright, I'm going to grab a coffee and do a good solid few hours.

[vashti]

No her weight was not a factor, it was her tonsils. They wanted to push a c-pap machine on us because that was the easy way out. I went with her when she had the test done to drop her off and they showed her this video where everybody was saying how great they felt with there c-pap machines and how it just made them sleep so much better. Half way through I said "I wonder who made this video"...I was joking because it was obvious it was the company that sold them that had made the video. Sure enough at the end of the movie it said produced by_________...I forget the name of the company that sells them.

This was not her regular dr and I'm telling you they were pushing this stuff like it was coke. The guy had to be getting a kickback as hard as he wanted her to get on it. .

That may or may not be true, but the fact of the matter is that people with nighttime breathing problems DO feel better using c-pap at night. And the overwhelming majority of users are, indeed, obese.

If it wasn't her regular doctor she was seeing, then who DID she see? And why?

[dewilliams2]

Dewilliams, math is much, much more than solving algebraic equations

I would like to communicate to you some of the excitement there is to math, but some of the cooler stuff I am thinking of right now would take a couple paragraphs to explain and I don't want to type that much right now, sorry to be lazy

A serious problem is how math is taught on the high school level and for some lower level courses in college. It is one area where I believe criticisms directed toward school systems is justified

Oh I know, I was simply using that as an example. And maybe that is it, I know my school had a poor math department. They openly acknowledged it needed work so maybe they just lost me from the start....the only time I thought math was fun was when I was learning imaginary numbers and that had more to do with I did not get it at all but as soon as I changed the name in my mind from imaginary numbers to theoretical numbers then it made complete sense and I thought how funny it was that my mind could get that hung up on a word that it would mess me up so bad.

But truly I think in the end it comes down to personal preferences. I mean some people like to climb mountains and its not for me...I don't like heights, I'd just be tired and I coulda road a helicopter up there. But to each their own....I mean some guys think penis is really great but your not gonna talk me into puttin one in my butt....although if thats what works for them then I say have at it.

So if you like math then enjoy....I'll pass.

[dewilliams2]

That may or may not be true, but the fact of the matter is that people with nighttime breathing problems DO feel better using c-pap at night. And the overwhelming majority of users are, indeed, obese.

If it wasn't her regular doctor she was seeing, then who DID she see? And why?

Some specialist her surgeon sent her to....because her surgeon wanted her to get checked out. I mean in the guys lab he had up posters for the company and pens...he was gettin some golf trips at least.

But like I said her tonsils had given her trouble for years and would always get inflamed. One time the dr shot her up with dope in the office and said if her temperature wasn't down in an hour her tonsils were going to be yanked that day but her temperature did come down. Its probably something they should have takin care of when she was a kid but didn't. I had mine removed when I was 5 because I would stop breathing at night. What they were concerned about was she was 50 and as you know as a person gets older there is a concern for excessive bleeding after the tonsils are removed.

But like I said it was a problem they were trying to cover with a c-pap and why cover a problem and why not fix it for good? There is also quality of life to consider and mom didn't wanta sleep with something on her face for the rest of her life (which we are hoping is quite a bit longer)...she doesn't sleep very well as it is and going through menopause she has so many hot flashes she'd just have that little mask stuck to her face and be wide awake.

[qwertz]

I am so fcuking sick of my blood glucose levels being so unstable. But i guess thats what you get for going on day long benders. Being diabetic is crap. Ughhh and i ahve work first thing.

[Charlie Boy II]

I'm annoyed I'm STILL hungover!! It's Monday 1pm now. I'm getting old.

[QueenofCorona]

I hate it when my bf has too much to drink and gets all horny but stinks. Shoot, you can touch me after a shower and a good tooth brushing with extra Listerine.

[qwertz]

Hangover doesnt quite cover what i feel today. I think i drank my own bodyweight in alcohol yesterday. My office is hot, the air con noise is making my head hurt and a guy in the office absolutely reeks of BO. I think im gonna throw up.

[qwertz]

WOAH!!!!! THE hottest IT guy has just come into the office....jeeeeeeeeeeeez I think I am actually drooling!.....Shame i actually look like a bag of crap today Oh well, i can just perv.

[Charlie Boy II]

haha Sunday night drinks - so fun and rebellious at the time, but so, so terrible when you actually have to front up on Monday morning.

You're in for a long day Qwert.

I just thought, do girls get horny when they have a hangover as well?

[misombra]

i'm unhappy today.

[vashti]

i'm unhappy today.

Why? Are you feeling well?

[misombra]

i haven't been sleeping well. and i'm upset about hayward.