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#8277 Jun 15 2015 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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Hi digg. Good to see you're not dead. See you next month.
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#8278 Jun 15 2015 at 9:39 AM Rating: Good
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Anyone drink themselves to death yet?
Hey digg!

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Hey guys... guys... guess what. I just passed my exam, so now I can officially proclaim myself a teacher in the arts of calculus - not that I'd ever do such a pompous thing.

Also, never, ever have to take an exam again in my life. In a year I'll do another exam, but that time I'll be on the other side of the table. Such power! Such control over the lives of innocents! I BASK in it!
Congrats. Do I get to call you Professor now?

My wife teaches high school chemistry in the NYC school system (in Queens). She's taught at some of the worst schools in the system. She has this ability to freeze a person in their tracks. I'm a grown man who deals with people getting in my face on a daily basis, but she will start with my name, and then slowly but sternly say, in a loud but not LOUD voice, something like, "Michael. I have asked you twice now to please take out the garbage." And I stop in my tracks and get that feeling I used to get when I was a kid and the teacher just caught me doing something I was not supposed to be doing. And then I remember where I am and it passes. And I say, "Yeah, I'm on it." But, damn I hate that feeling.

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#8279 Jun 15 2015 at 9:48 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
Also, never, ever have to take an exam again in my life.
Oh, yeah, I wanted to comment on this. I remember this feeling too. But the weird thing is, you'll probably wake up in a cold sweat once in a while, though it happens less often as the years pass, convinced that you've overslept for a final exam or that you've missed class and you've now missed too many classes to complete the semester. In the beginning it engenders greater panic, because it's so close in time to real thing. But over time it becomes more of a bizarre experience.

I haven't had it happen for a while now, but that's because I'm old. It also means I get to laugh at you, because I know what's in store for you. Smiley: tongue

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#8280 Jun 15 2015 at 10:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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I never had bad dreams about exams. I was always vaguely surprised by this, as it wasn't that I didn't find exams stressful or anything.
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#8281 Jun 15 2015 at 11:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'd always had those dreams where I was supposed to be doing some math problem, but every time I read the numbers they were different. So I learned from it.

Protip: never double-check your work! Smiley: schooled
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#8282 Jun 15 2015 at 12:22 PM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
Also, never, ever have to take an exam again in my life.
Oh, yeah, I wanted to comment on this. I remember this feeling too. But the weird thing is, you'll probably wake up in a cold sweat once in a while, though it happens less often as the years pass, convinced that you've overslept for a final exam or that you've missed class and you've now missed too many classes to complete the semester. In the beginning it engenders greater panic, because it's so close in time to real thing. But over time it becomes more of a bizarre experience.

I haven't had it happen for a while now, but that's because I'm old. It also means I get to laugh at you, because I know what's in store for you. Smiley: tongue



Nah, we don't do exams often enough for that to happen. So far, my exams have been spread out over the years. Here's a list of all the exams I've done in the last six years while studying to become a teacher:

1st year:
"Christian studies, life philosophy, and citizenship" (oral)
"Nature & Technology" (oral)

2nd year:
"Psychology" (written)
"Physics & Chemistry" (oral)

3rd year:
"Pedagogy" (oral)
"Didactics" (written)
"History I" (written)

4th year:
"History II" (oral)
"Bachelor project" (written + oral)

6th year:
"Mathematics" (written + oral)

It's been a long journey, but it hasn't been difficult.

Edited, Jun 15th 2015 8:41pm by Mazra
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#8283 Jun 15 2015 at 5:03 PM Rating: Good
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idiggory wrote:
Anyone drink themselves to death yet?


this is one of those things you cant rush if you want to do it right
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#8284 Jun 16 2015 at 8:21 AM Rating: Good
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That's a lot of oral, Maz.
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#8285 Jun 16 2015 at 9:34 AM Rating: Good
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That's a lot of oral, Maz.


Oral is one of the few things I'm good at...

Okay, I set that one up too hard...

I'm not even trying now.
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#8286 Jun 16 2015 at 9:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm sure it goes well with the Christian studies. For the hymns, of course.
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#8287 Jun 17 2015 at 11:27 AM Rating: Good
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Hi digg. Good to see you're not dead. See you next month.


Haaaa, fair.

Obligatory blog post:

I'm doing a total career shift and I just accepted a job as a barista in the city, and I'm looking at an apartment in Brooklyn later. That about sums up everything new in my life for the past 6 months.
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#8288 Jun 17 2015 at 12:20 PM Rating: Good
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I'm looking at an apartment in Brooklyn later.
Mets territory, I approve. Smiley: thumbsup

Also Sixpoint Brewery is in Redhook, so I'm sure Aeth would approve of that.
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#8289 Jun 17 2015 at 1:55 PM Rating: Good
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idiggory wrote:
I'm doing a total career shift and I just accepted a job as a barista in the city


What were you doing before?
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#8290 Jun 19 2015 at 6:25 PM Rating: Good
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So glad the double quote bug is still around.

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idiggory wrote:
I'm looking at an apartment in Brooklyn later.
Mets territory, I approve. Smiley: thumbsup

Also Sixpoint Brewery is in Redhook, so I'm sure Aeth would approve of that.


I am now a resident in the Prospect Park area.

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I'm doing a total career shift and I just accepted a job as a barista in the city


What were you doing before?


I coordinated continuing education programs for Rutgers University, specifically for social workers and addictions counselors. Plus extraneous other duties, like representing my research center (where the continuing ed. unit is based) at national/state conferences, copy editing/proofing/writing, marketing stuff, and managing a professional conference.

Basically, people in addictions counseling, social workers, public health professionals, etc. all have professional licenses in NJ (and NY, and plenty of other states), which need so many hours of education every 2 years (depending on the license) for them to actually KEEP that license. For instance, a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor (LCADC) needs 60 hours every 2 years. A licensed social worker (LSW), on the other hand, only needs 20. I coordinated those trainings, and also had some initial training programs to get licensed.

I don't want to say I hated EVERY second of it... but maybe like 80% of them.
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#8291 Jun 20 2015 at 1:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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What do you want to get into?
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#8292 Jun 20 2015 at 5:57 PM Rating: Good
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Brewing coffee, obviously.
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#8293 Jun 21 2015 at 7:21 AM Rating: Good
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Brewing coffee, obviously.


Pretty much. Smiley: lol

I might move into other areas in time - roasting, importing, etc. But I actually really missed working in customer service.
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#8294 Jun 21 2015 at 9:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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Cool!

Well I'm visiting NY this fall, so I'll have to find your coffee shop.
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#8295 Jun 21 2015 at 1:18 PM Rating: Good
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Cool!

Well I'm visiting NY this fall, so I'll have to find your coffee shop.


Baked in TriBeCa. Smiley: grin

The pound cake is ******* amazing. (I haven't had anything else yet).
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#8296 Jun 21 2015 at 10:08 PM Rating: Good
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But I actually really missed working in customer service.


Weird. I actually don't think that I've ever heard those particular words in that particular order before.
#8297 Jun 22 2015 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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The only thing I don't miss about working in customer service are the customers.
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#8298 Jun 22 2015 at 12:59 PM Rating: Good
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idiggory wrote:

I am now a resident in the Prospect Park area.
I was going to ask you what neighborhood but it's the internet so it's better to keep it general. I don't live there any longer so I can be specific.

I grew up on Degraw Street between 4th and 5th Avenues in Park Slope and I spent quite a few very happy Saturday mornings in Prospect Park with my brother, my cousin, and my uncle. The Brooklyn Zoo is (was?) awesome, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden across the street was too, and the Brooklyn Public Library next door to the Botanic Garden was even awesomer.

So many great memories. Grand Army Plaza was so enormous in the eyes of a 10 year old. Encyclopedia Brown was such engrossing reading. The guy standing at the podium by the front door to the library was dressed in one of those drum major outfits, sans hat, and checked the books you borrowed to make sure they were stamped and I couldn't wait to show him my books. I sometimes buy my daughter a box of Cracker Jacks, but for some strange reason they don't taste anything like the Cracker Jacks I got at the zoo.

And those brownstones. The railroad rooms. The wood trim everywhere. Have much, much enjoyment in your new digs (pun intended).

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But I actually really missed working in customer service.


Weird. I actually don't think that I've ever heard those particular words in that particular order before.
And the Texas contingent checks in. What's new? You launch a billion dollar startup yet?

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#8299 Jun 22 2015 at 6:28 PM Rating: Good
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people post over the weekend????
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#8300 Jun 23 2015 at 12:46 PM Rating: Good
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I'm surprised when people post during the weekdays.
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#8301 Jun 23 2015 at 2:32 PM Rating: Good
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i usually only post during weekdays

cause thats when i work and have time to f.a.r.t around on the internets

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fuc king f art is censored. like seriously WHAT THE F U CK

Edited, Jun 23rd 2015 10:33am by Horsemouth
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