Check In for Sunday, December 18!

[claire_chan]

*stir from sepulchre*

Is everyone still here?

Have you managed to eat decently despite the dearth of regular reminders?


Comment here and let me know what is going on. I'm not interested in how much, just that you did.

I personally just came out of Finals.
Socrates: What is your definition of "just"?
This millenium, the Anno Domini one!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Me? Eat healthy? Ahahahaha. I am however running out of money for microwave meals, which means going back to work lunches made of whatever my family can be bothered to not eat at dinnertime, which will mean an improvement in my diet. It helps that I'm no longer doing four evening classes. Semester's over, and spring semester I only have two on-campus classes.

[claire_chan]

Healthy eating is the idea of this comm.

Improvement is what we want!

Yikes, what four did you have? Last semester all my classes were in the late afternoon. In the spring I have a mid-morning class and all Tuesday evening. (All on-campus.)

[alexseanchai]

Criminal Law, Legal Research and Writing, Family Law, and Photography. Also Psychology and Human Sexuality but those two were online. Winter I have glorious nothing (and guess what I'm doing with all my free time? That's right, nothing!), and spring I have Law Office Management and the one-credit course associated with my internship on-campus, and everything else—Word I, Spanish II, Child Development, Art History II—is online. Which means they'll be done in the evenings and weekends, because I work for a living (and if I thought there were deities I would be thanking them thrice daily that my internship is at my place of employment), but at least I will be able to have a home-cooked dinner before I get started on classwork, instead of a microwaved dinner at work before or a stop at McDonald's during the drive to campus.

[claire_chan]

Wow, how busy! I'm avoiding the winter stuff too, like the plague.

Word I? Like how to use Microsoft Word?

I hope you enjoy your home-cooked dinners then :3

[alexseanchai]

Word I is a required class. Or not exactly required, but my other options were Excel I, Powerpoint, and Desktop Publishing. They make paralegal majors take Keyboarding, too. As though we didn't all learn to type in middle or elementary school.

[claire_chan]

For what? *curious*

I think all my typing I learned on my own, for... not very high success rates. xD; Compared with some people, I type very slowly. Compared with others, I type rather quickly. It depends on whether I have my thought figured out before I start typing. Typically not - and I mostly type miscellaneous thoughts, not dictation.

[alexseanchai]

I couldn't type dictation if my life depended on it. I do transcription sometimes, mostly for the SuperWiki, but that involves lots of rewinding to make sure I heard right. And I type eighty words per minute and have for years.

[claire_chan]

Practice makes everyone a bit better - they say you get better after practice, and to a certain extent it's true!
I find if you're not already up there, it's pretty much not happening, though, which is pretty discouraging.

I have a far greater accuracy in dictation if I've had a big breakfast despite the morning anorexia, then also if my listening and scribing are at separate times - of complete phrases, so you can fill in the blanks.
Paying close attention, then recording my memory.
They say my memory is strong, but everything is all basically already there. Trying to explain what I mean by that... um... if you fall into a habit... I don't know.
Mnemonic devices seriously help. Oh, I don't know if that'd help recording verbatim what people say... I DO find it easier to repeat nonsense and not think about it until later, even if it's better for actual understanding to try to catch the meaning first, then record the fresh personal memory.

SuperWiki?

[alexseanchai]

SuperWiki is the wiki devoted to Supernatural. My current project is fixing the transcript for the episode "Bloody Mary".

Thanks for the advice!