I had a dream about a friend I had over 10 years ago. Not many people liked her because she was a feisty because she was a girl from the streets, I saw pass that and would take her with me everywhere I went. I wonder where she is now or what she is, she was teaching me to be strong like her as usual in my dream. It's a much better dream than I had last night about exotic spiders, I had to wake up and re-do my bedsheets, pat the pillows and tie my hair up in a bun because I always mistake my hair for spiders. I don't know how many times I hit myself in the face and it was my hair. I've had actual spiders in my bed and woke up punching myself in the face to a real spider. Now my sheets and pillows have to stay perfect at all times or I'll freak.
Whenever I start a book I don't like, I can't bring myself to stop reading it, because I keep hoping and expecting that it will eventually redeem itself. Does anyone else do this?
Only 150 more pages to go...
I did this once, yeah. Got to the end of the book and I was pretty disappointed in the lack of action in it. I can't even remember what the book was called anymore.
One book I read last year, called Anvil of Stars, was a very difficult read. It took me nearly a year to finish it and by the end I realised how little happened in the book. It was good to read once, though.
Free legitimate college courses! From top universities! I think I'm going to take the intro to bio from MIT, just to refresh my memory. And if I can find Spanish courses... oh my god did I mention how COOL this is? 😀
Free legitimate college courses! From top universities! I think I'm going to take the intro to bio from MIT, just to refresh my memory. And if I can find Spanish courses... oh my god did I mention how COOL this is? 😀
I'm nerding out over here, I know.
* Fans Opaline with a calculus paper to cool down* There there E still = MC squared.
That is very cool. :thumbup:
So, I had this quite positive job interview. They will probably contact me tomorrow, and tell me whether they actually liked it. If they did like it, I'm invited again to have a chat with them and their chef programmer. If that would go well, I'm invited again, for a practice day, where I have to solve some task and present it in front of a group of people. If that would go well, I get a few practice months. If that goes well, I get a contract.
Some of that stuff makes me nervous.
So far, I always worked in small companies. That means, people looked at the stuff I programmed in the past, and if they liked me and thought they could need me, they hired me, told me what to do, and I did it.
This had its ups and downs. The advantages of being the only programmer were, that it was my world. My choice how to solve problems. My way of structuring things. Nobody telling me how to reach my goals. The disadvantages were, that there was nobody to discuss problems or successes with.
So, this companies scares me a bit. And this solve-a-task day terrifies me. Imagine that: sitting in a large office, 12 other programmers around you. You got this task to solve, and they will give you a super difficult task, to see how you react under stress. And you got this task, it's like 8:30 am in the morning, and you know you can't solve it. And unlike some test at school, you have the entire day to brood over it. And dozens of people checking what you're doing. And you want to run, but you can't. And at the end of the day, you stand in front of a crowd of people, and exclaim "I couldn't do it. I wasn't good enough. My work sucks."
Hmm.. Just did a word count on a story I started years ago and then abandoned... I'd actually written more than I thought at 20,606 words... Some day I'm going to have to go back to it and continue it... But first I have the current story I'm working on, which currently stands at over 10,500 words and has a long way to go yet before the end, in fact, the adventure has only just begun... Problem is, I've hit a wall... I know where I want it to go, I even know mini-plots I want to include, but I'm unsure of how to get to them at the moment... Stupid wall... I need to look for a door in it, or else find a tree to help me climb over it... (metaphorically speaking, of course.)
Free legitimate college courses! From top universities! I think I'm going to take the intro to bio from MIT, just to refresh my memory. And if I can find Spanish courses... oh my god did I mention how COOL this is? 😀
I'm nerding out over here, I know.
Thanks for sharing, might try out the intro to computer science and programming.
A friend of mine checked into a mental health ward today. I'm glad for this because he's always depressed. He needs help - more than I can provide. I hope he gets better.
A friend of mine checked into a mental health ward today. I'm glad for this because he's always depressed. He needs help - more than I can provide. I hope he gets better.
A friend of mine checked into a mental health ward today. I'm glad for this because he's always depressed. He needs help - more than I can provide. I hope he gets better.
A friend of mine checked into a mental health ward today. I'm glad for this because he's always depressed. He needs help - more than I can provide. I hope he gets better.
Is this the friend you mentioned about earlier?
I hope he gets better too.
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