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sometimes i am in AWE of the questions kiddo asks. for some reason we were talking about time yesterday (and singing 525600 minutes) and then today she asks me, "how did they measure how long a day was?" so my nerd ass got to explain that they would use the positioning of the the sun and time how long it took to come back around. then she asked how they knew how long a year was, and i said they did the same thing but with the stars, because our view of the sky changes based on where the earth is in its trip around the sun. like if you walked around in a circle, how long until you were facing the same direction again.
and THEN she wanted to know why there are apps she can have on her ipad that i can't have on my (android) phone. and i explained that our devices speak different languages. she was confused because they both display english, and i said computers speak a different kind of language than we do on the inside even though they show the same basic stuff on the outside. she asked what the difference between apple and android language was, and at that point i was out of my depth so i told her to ask her technology teacher next time she was in that class.
last week she asked me why we get less daylight in the winter than the summer. and i got to explain that in addition to spinning and going around the sun, the earth also tilts a little bit back and forth. i used my hand to demonstrate the path of the sunlight, and her fist to represent the earth, and showed her how the tilt changed not just the hours of daylight but also how strong it is, both of which are what make "seasons" happen.
this is the one time i am grateful for my adhd because i had the same questions at various points in my life and read all kinds of weird books and watched nerdy science shows (that just aren't made anymore) until i got my answers.
Ugh, I'm calling it. I'm ragequitting homework for the week, even though I'd need to do 22 more hours if I want to catch up.
I haven't really had much time to devote to homework this week; it seems like I've had something going on every single evening until today, and I'm busy all day tomorrow too, so this week just feels like a crapshoot.
I've gotten to lesson 13 of 20 in the software training, but this whole lesson, I feel like I've been doing nothing but bash my head against the wall. I'm not sure if my brain is just dead, I somehow have a different version of the software, or if there really are that many typos and errors that it simply doesn't make any sense. (For example: The directions say to press Ctrl + A to drop to a new line and put "A." before the point where your cursor is. But no, if you do that, it starts scrolling down through the transcript. To do what the directions are telling you to do, you have to press F4 + A.) And some of the things it's telling me to do acts like it's already explained how to do it, and I can't for the life of me find those instructions. I can't tell you how many times today I've yelled at my screen, "What are you talking about?!"
Okay, maybe more like muttered darkly rather than yelled.
But yeah, I'm not making any progress when I'm this frustrated. I know from much experience with math classes that nothing will get into my brain that way <_< So I'm going to send a couple questions to the teacher and then focus on writing or something tonight x.x
Refreshing the tracking on my laptop delivery like a mentally well individual. I misunderstood the update, it isn't three hours away, it's travelling from Brisbane to a location that's three hours away, but I'm hoping that it arrives before the end of the week.
I learned afterglow on the piano and I can play it really well and I'm really happy cos this is the first song I ever learned on the piano. So I'm really pleased with myself. :)