So the site turned 2 years old a few days ago. I completely missed it. I didn’t get it a card. Nor a cake (and I like cake!). When I logged in this evening, it looked at me unloved. I tried to explain that I don’t care, but it wasn’t having any of it. So I bought flowers. Honestly, this site HAS to be a woman. If it was a bloke, the conversation would have gone:
Man: Umm…you forgot my birthday.
Other Man: Shut up you whinging idiot!
Man: Sorry dude. Beer? My shout.
And that would have been it. No flowers. No chocolates and no being reminded everytime I log on for the next 6 months. So anyway. The site is 2 years and some days old. Whoopeedoo. I would write some spiel about how it has changed since it turned one, but it hasn’t. I would say I have great plans for the future. I do. But not with this site. So they aren’t worth mentioning. But I still have you guys. The readers. I would share the love around, but some of you are married while others are plainly not my type. So instead, lets talk about something completely different. Here we go.
I once filled in a bit of paper which I selected A,B,C,D to a few questions (I would give you more information, but honestly, I wasn’t paying attention then…how the hell will I be able to tell you 6 years later?) and at the end, a smart little cookie was able to tell me that my best way of learning was by doing, not by watching/listening.
I am not too sure I needed to do a test to find that out. If I think about my favourite things, I am 100% ALWAYS more inclined to do, than to watch or listen. Yeah sure, sometimes watching is all you have (or listening if you are a young man with some raging hormones and the couple next door are going at it so you have your ear pinned to the wall. Not me obviously…but someone must. Right?) , but the practical….MUCH more fun. Unless of course it is open stomach surgery on a man that has been eating live worms…I mean I have limits.
Therefore, with this in mind, 3 days of lectures followed by an exam was never really going to end well for me.
Not that I wasn’t paying attention or anything, but on the morning of day 3, I missed a complete module because my mind was elsewhere. As were my notes.
I am not kidding. There was an hour where he (the lecturer from hell who spent more time talking about his colon than ITIL – Look it up if you are insanely bored) was supposed to be going over something I had NO idea about. And in 3 hours time we had the exam. Do I come back to work with my tail between my legs because I failed, or come back and bask in my reflective glory at how I passed an easy exam? So yeah. My notes had some numbers on. Times. Times from my training runs. Times I need to do set races (10K, Half Marathons etc) in order to get the time I want for the marathon. My head was alive with thinking. Just none of it was about whatever the hell thing he was talking about. Until I heard the words “…and that should be what you need to know come the exam!”. At that point I thought “Shit! What did he say? I should probably get a coffee. And some packs of those complimentary biscuits they leave out. Jammie dodgers maybe.”
So yeah. Passed the exam. Me. A braindead halfwit. Says something about the exam! Or my ability to just choose B for every answer!
And that’s all I got for ya for now because…well…I wont lie, you are looking awful. You should get more sleep and stop reading this crap. It’s almost Christmas afterall. You need to look your best for the parties, and well…I think it is a little late for you, but you can at least make a little effort.
17 responses so far ↓
1 Flying Saucer Jones
// Dec 7, 2009 at 9:25 am
You are quite right, of course. I am looking awful due to lack of sleep. I should get sleep. But then I’d have to give up on all the watching and listening because, let’s face it, I’m married so there’s not much doing.
Umm. Yeah. So congratulations on passing the exam.
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2 G
// Dec 7, 2009 at 11:18 am
Well then, since low-key is the phrase of the day, I’ll simply this:
(think Ben Stien doing Visine commercials)
Wow.
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3 Sy
// Dec 7, 2009 at 4:32 pm
@Mr Jones – I couldnt agree more. Although technically, there is lots of doing in my marriage. Sadly, the doing is wishing. And begging.
@G – Hmm…I will get back to you. I gotta go ask Google who Stein is and what Visine is…bear with me!
4 G
// Dec 8, 2009 at 11:28 am
Ben Stein is a well known former political hack turned into semi-serious actor. He has a deadpan delivery and can be incredibly funny at times, although his reputation took a shot when he made a film that supported creationism.
Visine is a brand of eye-drops.
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5 Sy
// Dec 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Ahhh….and then I wandered to YouTube and found the commercial so it allllll makes sense!
6 Tricia
// Dec 12, 2009 at 8:58 pm
oops mea culpa. Sorry I’m late but it took me two years to find you!
Congratulations on your two year anniversary!!!!
*smiling*
7 Sy
// Dec 12, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Tricia! You made it! I looked everywhere for you…but here you are! Welcome!
8 Tricia
// Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01 pm
phew ~ All over the place I was looking for you! Figures you’d be in the last place I looked!
Now Sy Stay! . . stay! . . stay
*belly laughing*
9 Sy
// Dec 13, 2009 at 7:04 am
I can’t promise I will stay here. I have had itchy feet for a while (Athletes foot?) and may well move to the “other” place. That is the only other place you didnt look. I will give you a clue where it is… It has roads.
10 Tricia
// Dec 13, 2009 at 7:21 am
hmmm ~ “It has roads.”
Could you be a little more vague?
11 Sy
// Dec 13, 2009 at 7:23 am
Yeah I did think that was going to give it away. OK, ignore the roads and go with:
It has a sky if you look up.
There! You cant go wrong!
12 Tricia
// Dec 13, 2009 at 8:04 am
“It has sky if you look up.”
hmmm ~ so no sky if you look down.
Are you inside or outside?
13 Sy
// Dec 13, 2009 at 8:07 am
Ahhh….well, I am outside. But inside depending on how you look at the atmosphere of the earth.
14 Tricia
// Dec 13, 2009 at 8:46 am
” ~ outside. But inside depending on how you look at the atmosphere of the earth.”
ummm ~ so you’re full of gas(es)????
15 Sy
// Dec 13, 2009 at 9:00 am
Kinda. I am certainly full of something, which I guess produces gas.
16 Tricia
// Dec 13, 2009 at 9:12 am
*belly laughing*
Footnote:
I’m don’t love my “picture” (bad profile!)
is there a way to upload a picture?
17 Sy
// Dec 13, 2009 at 9:20 am
Ah yeah. It is a Gravatar. Go to gravatar.com and then sign up with the email you use to make comments. That way, any site you comment on which has added gravatars will automatically show them on when you use that email address to comment!
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