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kittydesadeSomehow, and I blame my grandfather talking endlessly about economics and stocks and money and so on at me from long before I was old enough to care about such things, I absorbed enough information about the stock market to understand what the hell was going on with GameStop and other stocks about twelve to eighteen hours before the explainers started pouring out. Which was funny because I got to do the explainers, but also left me feeling like a bit of a freak for just ... absorbing information like that. So that was weird on top of extra weird. The GameStop thing is still going on and snowballing like Madmartigan down the hill. I have no idea what's going to come out of this but I have my suspicions that it's going to be Not Good for average people who don't own stocks. (Or, I guess, people like me, who own stocks managed by professionals and don't really give a shit about the day trading options.)
I did have my project evaluation and that went amazingly well, my reviewer (who was the same as the first project) was impressed and pleased and told me I should be very proud and yes I damn well am. And now I'm on Rails, which is going well enough so far. I'm setting up, already, now, like a smart person, a separate directory just to do Rails stuff in, over and over again, so that if I run into something I have trouble with in labs I can just fuss with it in my practice directory until it becomes second nature.
I'm also trying an approach right now that involves treating it like any other language, and just going to study groups to hang out and watch people problem solve their own labs or projects. Mostly projects so far. Anyway, I'm treating the study groups like immersion hours, listening and doodling to keep myself slightly occupied while I listen and follow along. Hopefully it helps? It may be too soon to tell.
It doesn't feel like a lot has happened in the last several days, and yet I seem to have a lot to talk about. I finally got the office, not clean cleaned but definitely cleaned enough that I'm not knocking shit over everywhere I turn. I read a couple of books the boy recommended and he was so pleased I liked them that he stacked me up with more recommendations. Unfortunately they're only partial series at this point because he's lent some of them out, so now he's going to try and get some back. It's adorable. It's also adorable that he's so gleeful that he can (finally?) make references to the books with me, one in particular that seems to really amuse him. It's so cute. I love moments like this.
There was PT. One of our tires flattened slowly and because we ended up driving home on it instead of switching out to the donut, flattened more quickly, but we're lucky and live down the street from an excellent tire place. The winds kicked up heavily last night and, well, my anxious ass didn't get much sleep between that and the cats yowling but I've roughly managed the day, I think? It's really nice to have the exciting things be "oh, well, now we have to buy a new tire" and "cats, if you want to yell at each other go downstairs to do it" instead of "Hi honey I sat for three hours with a covid+ patient can you unlock the utility room door so I can come through the garage and scour myself?"
I did have my project evaluation and that went amazingly well, my reviewer (who was the same as the first project) was impressed and pleased and told me I should be very proud and yes I damn well am. And now I'm on Rails, which is going well enough so far. I'm setting up, already, now, like a smart person, a separate directory just to do Rails stuff in, over and over again, so that if I run into something I have trouble with in labs I can just fuss with it in my practice directory until it becomes second nature.
I'm also trying an approach right now that involves treating it like any other language, and just going to study groups to hang out and watch people problem solve their own labs or projects. Mostly projects so far. Anyway, I'm treating the study groups like immersion hours, listening and doodling to keep myself slightly occupied while I listen and follow along. Hopefully it helps? It may be too soon to tell.
It doesn't feel like a lot has happened in the last several days, and yet I seem to have a lot to talk about. I finally got the office, not clean cleaned but definitely cleaned enough that I'm not knocking shit over everywhere I turn. I read a couple of books the boy recommended and he was so pleased I liked them that he stacked me up with more recommendations. Unfortunately they're only partial series at this point because he's lent some of them out, so now he's going to try and get some back. It's adorable. It's also adorable that he's so gleeful that he can (finally?) make references to the books with me, one in particular that seems to really amuse him. It's so cute. I love moments like this.
There was PT. One of our tires flattened slowly and because we ended up driving home on it instead of switching out to the donut, flattened more quickly, but we're lucky and live down the street from an excellent tire place. The winds kicked up heavily last night and, well, my anxious ass didn't get much sleep between that and the cats yowling but I've roughly managed the day, I think? It's really nice to have the exciting things be "oh, well, now we have to buy a new tire" and "cats, if you want to yell at each other go downstairs to do it" instead of "Hi honey I sat for three hours with a covid+ patient can you unlock the utility room door so I can come through the garage and scour myself?"