After some moments of panic, after I tried to buy the textbooks for my course and they laughed and said “fat chance” … they’ve gotten more in. Phew. When I called today, they had seven left (ack!) so since getting to New West between 9:30 – 4 is virtually impossible, what with that whole working [...]
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I’m gonna be a Supermodel EMR…
February 21st, 2008
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Today, I booked off three weeks of vacation time. On April 17th, I start the Emergency Medical Responder course at the Justice Institute. At the end (assuming I pass) I’ll be able to get my EMA license, allowing me to provide pre-hospital care in an emergency setting. How freaking cool is that?
Referenced.
February 4th, 2008
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Tricky. Hmm. So I’m looking at taking a class that has some fairly stringent requirements to get in. An essay. A resume. A criminal record check. An LPI of 4 or higher (that one’s not hard — I took it a few years ago, and I think I got a 4, so I just have [...]
Holy crap!
December 22nd, 2006
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Course Title: Technical Writing Style Final Grade: 94 Wow! How the hell did I manage THAT? Am very pleased with myself. Turns out, I can write! Who knew?
what the…
December 7th, 2006
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finished? But… but… but… Yeah, I wrote my entire final project over a period of only 3-4 hours. I’m a little concerned. (Not including the outline, the description, or hunting down pictures and such, but it is including all the fiddly formatting shit I spent way too long on — well, it’s technical writing: Style [...]
Score!
November 20th, 2006
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Turns out, I’m even better than I thought. Last week, I wrote a short composition about style & tone, aimed at 10 year old boys. A couple of problems immediately made themselves clear: One, no ten year old boy gives a flying fuck about style & tone. Two, I don’t actually know anything about ten [...]
Well, I was gonna say…
November 17th, 2006
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When I first started my technical writing course, I was reminded of Darren’s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness, and was going to mention it at one point. Of course, he’s one step ahead of me — he’s used several examples from the Hall as teaching aids. I was most amused. Including this one. As a [...]
For the record…
November 14th, 2006
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…writing a composition about a couple of aspects of technical writing when the assigned audience is 10 yr old boys SUCKS. Did I ever mention that I know approximately zilch about ten year old boys? I mentioned boogers. I’m so not getting a good mark on this one.
must… get over… myself…
November 13th, 2006
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Ever have one of those shocking realizations where you realize that someone you like was one of THOSE PEOPLE in high school? And by “those people” I mean the snotty popular people who were complete assholes to anyone who wasn’t in their upper echelons of cool? So like, do you hold a grudge on behalf [...]