Vegetable Lasagna

My lab partner in class is like Vegetable Lasagna from that Seinfeld episode in which Putty and Elaine are arguing all the way home from their European trip. I don't mean to say that my partner (let's call him YM from now on) is dumb. He does grasp the concepts perfectly fine. But it just seems like when it comes to the labs, he slows down to a turtle's pace. It kills me! It literally kills me. Since he isn't so great with the commands, I let him do all the typing. When he types in the commands, he first stares at the one-line instruction for like a full minute. Then he types it soooo slowly; correcting typos along the way. Then he fakes as if he's going to hit Enter to apply the command but then hesitates and re-reads the one-line instruction for another minute. Then onto the next command. Each time he does it, I get a mini ulcer. My mind is zooming and I'm already on step 10 by the time he completes step 1. So I wait and agonize. Poor me. Ok, I know I'm being a little baby and that this class is supposed to be a learning experience, so I don't say anything to him or act annoyed. At least he's learning this material, and the fact that I'm on step 10 by the time he's done w/ step 1 allows me to give him a better explanation when he asks a question.

I don't know why I called him Vegetable Lasagna, but I kept thinking that all day. Maybe it's because Vegetable Lasagna was sort of an inert, space-taker and when YM pulls one of his classic freezes, in which I could probably hear the gears churning in his head, he seems very inert. Poor YM. I won't be mean to him. I'll suffer through my mini ulcers.

Back 2 School

Aw yeah! I'm back in school baby! hehe. I started my SNPA class today and already picked up so much info that I know we can use back at work. The instructor's pretty good so that helps. This reminds me of my CCNA class, but with the exception that the other students in this class are really knowledgeable about their stuff. No offense to my CCNA classmates but they were newbies. It was fun to be in a room full of people who knew what they were doing. You can really learn from them or even from the questions they ask.

But yeah, I totally wouldn't mind it if I could do this full time :-) Think Jim will mind? A while back Jay and I discussed the topic of winning the lottery and what we'd do if we did win it. After touring the world like madmen, we'd probably go take classes on subjects that we like. No stress of having to pass exams or anything; just going to class and learning something new.

Baseball's back!

I loooove baseball and I'm so glad that it's back. In fact, during the winter, I kinda go into withdrawal and desperately seek any baseball-related news that I can dig up. Last week, when Jim and I were working until the wee hours of the night, we were talking about baseball and I told him that one of my favorite baseball memories is from when I was a teenager. I was laying on the sofa in cool air conditioning on a very hot, muggy day, watching an afternoon game and sipping on some iced tea. For some reason, that memory is burned into memory. Another favorite memory is of how in the fall of 1996, we wasted so much time in history class because we kept bringing up the Yankees' successes in the playoffs with our teacher, Mr. Sacci, (who also happened to be a huge Yankee fan). And, finally, there were the 1995 playoffs when Donny Baseball finally made it to the playoffs only to lose to Seattle. That's when I first became a Yankee fan :-)