Kindred Spirits

"Marilla is a famous cook. She is trying to teach me to cook but I assure you, Diana, it is uphill work. There's so little scope for imagination in cookery. You just have to go by the rules. The last time I made a cake I forgot to put the flour in."

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Back to school

This whole week I have been going to a Microsoft SQL Server training course instead of going to work every day. Eight hours of learning about indexing, constraints and triggers. It actually is kind of fun. It's pretty cool to learn something that you KNOW you can apply at your job (which is seldom the case with college courses.) It's been weird having to shift my brain into learning mode again. My head is kind of tired of having junk stuffed into it and me frantically trying to retain it all. Today was especially rough with crunching numbers to try to figure out the best way to optimize your query. I walk out and I'm pretty much worthless for the rest of the day. I'm now understanding better your girls' situation where you are shifting from school to a full-time job. It's HARD to change over! It's like working out different muscles in your brain. Well, I don't know about y'all, but my brain muscles are SORE. I'm looking forward to the long weekend...

6 Comments:

  • At 6:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Don't forget the ice packs to help the soreness.
    When you get back, you'll have to teach me all your new tricks. The office is just not the same without your laugher here. Hope this doesn't give you the notion to school for your PhD.
    Enjoy your long weekend ladies!

     
  • At 8:24 AM, Blogger Andrea said…

    I can tell you with COMPLETE confidence, Sue, that this in NO way inspires me to go back to school!

     
  • At 1:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Perhaps I should go back to school to brush up on my grammar. ;o)

     
  • At 8:47 PM, Blogger Anna Murnion said…

    Ahh, now I see why you haven't been on MSN or posting on here much this week!

    I'm glad you don't want to go back to school. I might really wonder about you if that made you want to. ;-)

     
  • At 9:15 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    What's so wrong about going back to school?

     
  • At 8:53 AM, Blogger Andrea said…

    Nothing is WRONG with it. If you can manage it, more power to ya! Anna and I are just kindred spirits in NEVER wanting to return to the "books" in this lifetime. Right, Annie?

     

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