Random Thoughts XV

Charlie wrote:

Still feel awful. Lol. I'll need to find a jew job if I get sacked. Lol. Yeah, optician. Why, what do you call them?

Do you really think you'll get sacked?

We say ophthalmologist...or optometrist.

That was a pretty decent typo. Lmao. There's a manager in work who has decided to make my life a living hell by taking issue with me doing things that everyone does but aren't supposed to. Could be up for disciplinary or even the boot. Who knows. My sister thinks she has an issue with my being a lesbian which I'll be honest has crossed my mind but there's not much I can do about it. The things that were raised I did actually do. It's just not enforced with anyone else. Fml. *shrug*

ETA: I thought opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists were different things... Yep: http://www.lensprices.co.uk/optician-optometrist-ophthalmologist

God, i hope it works out man :/ Your manager sounds like she has it out for you. Cow.

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This though.

Thanks Rosie. She's not even my manager though so technically it's none of her business. Also, complaints are anonymous and all so I shouldn't even know it's her.

I can't see that, I assume it's a vid, my phone doesn't support flash.

Hungover as balls and now the week of exam cram/writing starts.

What's everyone up today?

Absolutely nothing. I just got out of bed and now I'm just gonna play video games for a bit.

One of my christmas presents arrived today and I'm already so excited to have this little thing for myself in about 2 weeks
It's the guitalele GL 1 by yamaha.
Like the name promises it's a mix between a guitar and a ukulele.

Looks like this if you hold it next to a regular sized guitar:



ooh found one with a ukulele next to it as well

Very cool Dina. Forever jealous i can't play guitar.


Ok, so got my other 3 subject marks back and passed them all. Which meanssss next year i get to do: 1) a pediatric and 2) a mental health clinical placement. This is exciting Curious to see how i deal with kiddies.

Charlie wrote:

Thanks Rosie. She's not even my manager though so technically it's none of her business. Also, complaints are anonymous and all so I shouldn't even know it's her.

How do you know?

Because she seems to be the only person who doesn't like me? Nah, my team leader showed me the email from her but she wasn't supposed to.

Ohh i see.

UGHHHHHH, my prof sucks and taught me NOTHING this semester, and now I'm doing the exam review and it's just reinforcing that fact.

<_< 88% average coming into this semester, I'll be lucky for a 70% in this class.

Just spent the evening listening to my mate's beautiful Australian cousin's beautiful Australian accent. Went to a house warming and my mate turned up as a surprise for Christmas. He's been in Oz for over a year so I've only spoken to him on fb. Was such a nice evening.

voteforalice1 wrote:

Ok, so got my other 3 subject marks back and passed them all. Which meanssss next year i get to do: 1) a pediatric and 2) a mental health clinical placement. This is exciting Curious to see how i deal with kiddies.

Congrats Rosie!

Mike` wrote:

UGHHHHHH, my prof sucks and taught me NOTHING this semester, and now I'm doing the exam review and it's just reinforcing that fact.

<_< 88% average coming into this semester, I'll be lucky for a 70% in this class.

It's a shame that there are so many inept professors in this world and how it's always the students that have to suffer the consequences.
Maybe you could form a study-group and you can teach each other the matter?

Charlie wrote:

Just spent the evening listening to my mate's beautiful Australian cousin's beautiful Australian accent. Went to a house warming and my mate turned up as a surprise for Christmas. He's been in Oz for over a year so I've only spoken to him on fb. Was such a nice evening.

Sounds lovely!
Our English teacher spend a year in australia and just told us about the word "Oi!" in Australia and how they use it. And apparently they pronounce for example Sydney very differently than how we are used to pronounce it. But that is all the knowledge I have on australian accents

Tomorrow I'm back at work, starting at 9am sharp in the purchase department for travelling expenses

Also: The world is white and I simply love snow

Dina wrote:

Sounds lovely!
Our English teacher spend a year in australia and just told us about the word "Oi!" in Australia and how they use it. And apparently they pronounce for example Sydney very differently than how we are used to pronounce it. But that is all the knowledge I have on australian accents

Tomorrow I'm back at work, starting at 9am sharp in the purchase department for travelling expenses

Also: The world is white and I simply love snow

I say "Oi" to get peoples attention... "Oi listen" .. or when i'm offended/provoked e.g. "Oi, what the f*ck did you just say?!" haha

Charlie wrote:

Just spent the evening listening to my mate's beautiful Australian cousin's beautiful Australian accent. Went to a house warming and my mate turned up as a surprise for Christmas. He's been in Oz for over a year so I've only spoken to him on fb. Was such a nice evening.

That does sound nice.
And still surprised anyone finds this accent attractive

Yes she used "Oi!" to get our attention as well.
And apparently it's also used at sports to cheer your team on? I don't know

You know Oi is Hello in Portuguese, right?

Btw, I bought my Christmas tree yesterday. I'll post a pic later.

No, I didn't until now

I'm sort of wallowing in memories at the moment because I re-found this video.
I was in the third row here and have never had more dirt in my hair, than on this awesome day
(Wait for 1:14)



We're a bit late with everything christmas at the moment. It's been a busy few months, but we really need to start decorating or otherwise the effort won't even be worth it, if we only start 3 days before christmas :/
And YES to pictures!!

That looks like an awesome concert Dina! I love finding things like that on youtube.

I'm gonna try and recover the old hard drive from my old laptop next week, I'm sure there'll be some interesting pre fb pics and stuff on there...

I played poker, last night which was really good fun.... I also ate this really fit cheese, which as I can't seem to handle dairy anymore in hindsight was a massive error as my stomach now hates me :/. I can't give up my cheese though.... I love it. Damn it.

I'm writing my presentation for this interview tomorrow... For some reason it seems hard to make carpet tile recycling exciting.....

Dina wrote:

Mike` wrote:

UGHHHHHH, my prof sucks and taught me NOTHING this semester, and now I'm doing the exam review and it's just reinforcing that fact.

<_< 88% average coming into this semester, I'll be lucky for a 70% in this class.

It's a shame that there are so many inept professors in this world and how it's always the students that have to suffer the consequences.
Maybe you could form a study-group and you can teach each other the matter?

Hehe we do that anyways, but my favourite way to study is to teach the subject to another person; if I can teach it to someone, and make them understand, than obviously I know what I'm doing and have learned it myself. Plus other people make my brain work more.

But it's like, to the point where my mate Drew (Who I have my entire semester with, one of my closer friends over the past six months) and I are debating using the school's tutor service because we're THAT lost. And that's really terrifying going into the exam, because I've always been the one asked to do tutoring, rather than having to use the services myself.

Ah well, today is Macroeconomics studying, a quick run-through of the Managerial Accounting practice exam, and then back to completely teaching myself Fundamentals of Accounting for the next four days. /die

Yay! I'm off home tomorrow and I'm on the bus via the coastal route.

Mike` wrote:

Dina wrote:

Mike` wrote:

UGHHHHHH, my prof sucks and taught me NOTHING this semester, and now I'm doing the exam review and it's just reinforcing that fact.

<_< 88% average coming into this semester, I'll be lucky for a 70% in this class.

It's a shame that there are so many inept professors in this world and how it's always the students that have to suffer the consequences.
Maybe you could form a study-group and you can teach each other the matter?

Hehe we do that anyways, but my favourite way to study is to teach the subject to another person; if I can teach it to someone, and make them understand, than obviously I know what I'm doing and have learned it myself. Plus other people make my brain work more.

But it's like, to the point where my mate Drew (Who I have my entire semester with, one of my closer friends over the past six months) and I are debating using the school's tutor service because we're THAT lost. And that's really terrifying going into the exam, because I've always been the one asked to do tutoring, rather than having to use the services myself.

Ah well, today is Macroeconomics studying, a quick run-through of the Managerial Accounting practice exam, and then back to completely teaching myself Fundamentals of Accounting for the next four days. /die

oh man - especially in accounting it's so essential to get the basics, because otherwise you're just totally lost.
I'm glad my accounting/controlling teacher is so awesome. She is sort of my personal hero. I just like people that have this no-bullshit-attitude Hard to explain her, she's just incredibly straight-forward and honest.

We did the double-entry bookkeeping system with taxes and without them, with the expense-oriented method and stock-oriented method (probably not the correct translation?) and did the linear and degressive depreciation. And there is still so much more to come... it's never-ending
And still I somehow like it - once you get the hang of it, it's really not bad.

But we were told "With accounting it's like catching the train. You gotta hop on right at the beginning or otherwise you just might have to run behind it the entire way."

I'd definitely go to someone at the university about that professor of yours. If enough students raise a complain, maybe he will have to improve his teaching-methods?

Dina wrote:

oh man - especially in accounting it's so essential to get the basics, because otherwise you're just totally lost.
I'm glad my accounting/controlling teacher is so awesome. She is sort of my personal hero. I just like people that have this no-bullshit-attitude Hard to explain her, she's just incredibly straight-forward and honest.

We did the double-entry bookkeeping system with taxes and without them, with the expense-oriented method and stock-oriented method (probably not the correct translation?) and did the linear and degressive depreciation. And there is still so much more to come... it's never-ending
And still I somehow like it - once you get the hang of it, it's really not bad.

But we were told "With accounting it's like catching the train. You gotta hop on right at the beginning or otherwise you just might have to run behind it the entire way."

I'd definitely go to someone at the university about that professor of yours. If enough students raise a complain, maybe he will have to improve his teaching-methods?

Haha, I LOVE accounting, it's why I'm in school for it. Once it clicks, it's there and it never leaves your brain. All the stuff you described is the kind of thing I did last year, but this year with the Fundamentals 2 course it's a lot of rate theory and financial maths (PRT's, PVs, FVs, idk if you know what the acronyms are for, but yeah) and the prof just.... didn't teach it.

I checked the prof's rating on Ratemyprofessor (It's a website for rating uni/college teachers) and EVERYONE's gave him the same description I did: genuinely nice guy, knows his stuff, just can't teach it if his life depended on it. He's been like this for years apparently.

my first latin teacher was like that. Very cool and funny guy - sadly couldn't teach one bit.

I'm sure that whatever it is you do at university is a lot more detailed and in-depth than whatever I learned in my first vocational training block. After all, I wouldn't even have needed the degree that I got from school for a simple apprentice-ship so it's not like whatever we do is incredibly hard to comprehend. It's just the basics.

But I fear what accounting will become once I start with the University part of this entire education a bit. (If it's a dual education system now, what will it become once I add the University in the evenings? A trial education system?? )

Oh well, no need to worry about that now - first I'll be shipped off to York in 9 months

Haha here, I'll show you what the kind of stuff I have to do today is:









I'm SO lost with Percentage of Completion and my Loan PV/FV calculations. /die