random musings

• at work, people say i seem natural at what i do. i think vgoraz is responsible for that. he is rather similar to my students.
• i turned a long weekend getaway into a week long trip. its nice to see unglued and be back in my apartment. but i liked the fall weather up north and i like not working.
• halloween decorations look very out of place in socal. it is hard to think of pumpkins and trick or treating when its 80F and there are palm trees everywhere.
• i find bus maps confusing. and buses in general confusing. i wish more public transport involved subways/light rail/train type things.
• airport bars amuse me. i like talking to random people there.
• being awake since 4am with no caffeine is making me loopy.
• i really really want an asus zen book.

 

this is the zenbook. anyone want to buy it for me?

 

That is a damn sexy notebook.

Also: don't you teach asd kids?

 

I do indeed teach kids on the spectrum.

 

"kids on the spectrum" sounds really odd and also has the weird acronym of KOTS. i find ASD nicer because it can easily be typed sequentially on qwerty layout keyboards being that it is the first three letters of the home row. On Dvorak layouts its still on the home row though instead is the outsides then the middle in terms of button sequences.

 

it is person first wording. kids with asd sounds more clunky to me, so i use kids on the spectrum.

 

It sounds nicer too. Spectrum = rainbow, and who doesn't like that?

Totally not being sarcastic.

 

lol, i never thought of that.

some people that kids on the spectrum can be rainbow, indigo or crystal children. i should figure out new wording to distance myself from these people.

 

Indigo children... oh lordy. What some people will come up with to convince themselves that their kids (and by extension themselves) aren't imperfect.