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So, I really can't call this thing a diary anymore, can I? If I take two days off from posting in it?
I have no idea...but I do like the word "Impression" better than "Diary Entry"..it sounds more, ideal, or something.

But yeah..the interview was very short, and they said that they would call me. The thing was, they wanted me to come in for housekeeping. I was assertive for the first ...

I honestly had a really great day today. Things are looking up, and I feel really hopeful for once. I had been going down this spiral, and then I told myself to "shut up, and quit being so mean" to myself, and it's like I realize that I'm actually not a horrible person after-all.


Imagine that.

But yeah. I got hit on at work today. A teen-aged guy came up to me while I was closing, and said, "So, you see the guy over there in the ...

I heard of the term "helix sports" in a lecture by John Taylor Gatto...he was referring to education as something resembling a helix sport, whatever it is. I was curious about this and did more research and came across this book "Landscape in Sight by John B. Jackson" describing what a helix sport is in more detail. Here's are print screens taken from the book:


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I had an interesting insight into my learning process today. I wish I found out sooner it would have saved me time and frustration. It was like separate entities that I used before individually but now I have a working process. I find it a bit absurd that I have found this at this moment because I needed it before but learning is constant whether done formally or informally. I need three things to understand new information and incorporate it into my existing knowledge: patterns, visual representations, ...