Just Some Thoughts..

In high school, everything came pretty easily to me. I understood a lot of the formulas and concepts. I could look at problems and have some greater sense of how everything interacted and what theories or methods applied to that particular problem. A lot of my friends didn’t quite have the same insights. Somehow I couldn’t understand why. I thought they were definitely smart enough to understand everything in front of them. When I gave them hints to problems they could solve them. That just reinforced my idea that everyone could grok these things.

Now I realize that they aren’t held back by their intelligence. It’s the fear and panic of realizing that you don’t have the insight to solve these problems. That fear blinds their critical thinking that needs to be there to think rationally about it. Then it just goes downhill from there.

Anyways, dunno what my point is. Just something I was thinking about. Sorry I didn’t call you back Doris. I’m OK tho.

Oh no! It’s pizza day.

So today is pizza day at Bright Horizons. For 2 weeks now, Vince has been OK with leaving before the pizza was served at noon. Today was different. He really, really, really wanted to stay and he threw a tantrum to prove it. We asked if there were extra slices and the answer was no… He was so distraught, he peed in his pants on the way home.

On a more adult note, I was invited to the German expat morning “English coffee hour” and had a lovely time. We had tea and scones an homemade bread and butter. Also we played Boggle which I have to say, even though my English is fluent, the Germans were not to shabby.

Busy Studying.

Wow. A Flurry of interviewing action. Apparently I’ve got some sort of talk/interview with 3 companies in the next 3 working days. Weird. I have a lot of studying to do. laff.

Whoops. I almost forgot about my classes too. hrm. strange. Well the schedule works out anyways. hrm. I’ll have to remind myself about it from now on.

Thing with Joceyn are better. We talked last night and now we’re not pissy at each other at least – even tho nothing really got decided as usual.

Okay. I’m going to eat some cereal now.

Vincent and Phillip Kiene. Phillip’s parents just moved from Dresden, Germany to New York two weeks ago. Philip is going to have a little brother or sister in about 5 months! Philip only knows German and Vince only knows English. But somehow they both learned to communicate “Mine!” to each other.