#thishedgehog

mm, perhaps instead all women should just Not Shut The Fuck Up Ever on the 8th?

I’d say see if she acts any differently than before and if not then assume it was just a flub? Like she was sending other emails to ppl she has to last-name so by habit she last-named you too or something.

yay congratulations!! is it a nice job? I mean, I hope it is a nice job.

I have been job hunting seriously since May and less so since February, and it is the job I have been most excited about in that time.

It is an engineering job, where I get to learn more all the time, and it is not killing people (rare in tech industry), and it is in fact making the world a better place. Im Prinzip.

Oh, I watched the first episode of that!

alerting you to this was at least 70% of why I reblogged it

what a lovely sweater!

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cary-grant-the-debonaire

Heem not perfect, but maybe do better next time.

being homeschooled was lovely! the hardest part of the 3 weeks i spent in a public school during 5th grade was the cursive handwriting assignment, I spent HOURS on that and it was the most frustrating thing I have possibly ever done–my parents and sister did not care about cursive so no one had taught it to me before.

Oooh, yeah, that would be tough.

I switched to print when the cursive requirement was dropped, then noticed half way through home schooling that I only remembered half my cursive letters. So I decided to start it up again, so that I could do both, and wound up gradually switching over entirely to cursive...

...but I never actually relearned how to do the letters I’d forgotten, I just made something up.

I split it up like that too, otoh I was homeschooled for elementary school so I never had to do any of those weird “just memorize your times tables, that’s learning, right?” things.

Oooh, how’d that work out for you? I homeschooled through middle school, but that was well after we did times tables. They were obnoxious to memorize, but they did end up being very helpful, so.

(I never bothered with the 12+ times tables, though, and I don’t really know 11 or 12, I just build from what I do know; 11 is easy, and 12*5 = 60, so I can figure out 12*(6,7,8,9) from there. 12*11 is 121, which is cute, and 12^2 = 1 gross, which is easy.)

icryyoumercy replied to your chat: Kidbro: [18 x 4 is] 72. Nimbler: Cool! How did you...

Huh. I tend to go by 10s and 5s, so (20x4)-(2x4). Leaves far neater numbers for the in-between steps, which is very handy for my weird brain

Oooh, that is interesting and useful! I might take that. It’s always helpful to know several ways to do things.

(Except when your brain gets stuck doing the same problem over and over because it wants to run through the different ways to do it, and then it thinks maybe it forgot one, and has to keep redoing them no matter how many times you tell it that you do so remember doing it that way, and...)

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i honestly can’t remember my school ever teaching me any helpful math tricks. I learned the 9s thing from my mom (the one where you subtract and then add the difference?) and my friend taught me to remember 7x8= 56 because 5,6,7,8, but that’s about it

I also tend to split things up for adding or multiplication though

and add/subtract by 10s a lot. like 18+19= 19+10= 29+8= 37

I dunno what 9s thing you learned - I know several, like the way to do it on your fingers (I actually don’t know how to do this one, I just know that kids did), and that for 9*[1,10] the digits of the product will sum to 9 (9+0, 1+8, 2+7...), or the one I actually used, which is that for each interval the tens place goes up one and the ones place goes down one.