I’ve been picking good movies lately, and I had to share
This is completely random, I know, but I’ve stumbled across a few really good movies lately, and I had to share.
- Wristcutters - A Love Story (complete with a totally awesome Tom Waits bit)
- Burn After Reading
- Ghost Town
- Committed
I’m not even going to try to do a review on any of these movies or try to convince you to watch them. I’m just psyched that I’ve stumbled across such good movies lately, and I had to share!
How much do you spend on Netflix?
This is a really cool site, via lifehacker, that says how much you pay per movie in your Netflix subscription.
I’ve been better about Netflix before, but lately I’ve been slacking off (and it didn’t help that someone in my house opened up the movie I stuck in the outgoing mail pile yesterday, so I’ll end up having it all week before I can send it back with another movie).
Apparently, I’m currently paying $3.96 per movie. Yikes! I’ve got to do better about sending movies back.
What’s your turnover time?
Self-discipline
This kind of studying requires a lot of self-discipline. I have to take all of my spare time and channel it towards the goal of passing an exam that I will take more than a month from now. I have no accountability to anybody but me. I have no set schedule aside from watching the videos that only get posted once a week. I have to decide what to study, when, and in what order. I have to figure out what works for me and get other things work for me whether they want to or not. I have to take practice quizzes and tests and work random problems in the book and not get discouraged. I have to listen to cds in the car even when I really want to listen to music.
Some days I do better than others, and I’ve found that I do best on my busiest days, because those are the days when I have the greatest sense of urgency. For that reason, I do fairly well at the flash cards in the evenings, because I can only look at a few at the time before catching C as she goes head first off the couch (feet first, child! feet first!). If this particular trend continues, I will be a studying fiend once tax season starts.
Joys of home ownership redux
I just discovered that I am (at the moment, at least) the number one google hit for “joys of home ownership” (and homeownership, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a word).
Of course I quit blogging a week ago…. (and all of three people bothered to comment on that post!)
Painful subject
This Friday, after years of procrastination, I am getting my wisdom teeth taken out. I’ve put this off for years in large part because every time you say you’re having your wisdom teeth out, the most bizarre thing happens: everyone tells you how wretched it is.
It’s really a baffling part of human nature, I think. Why would I want to hear how bad it will be? Don’t you think most people would prefer hearing that it’s not so bad? Are there any other things in our culture where people pile it on like that? Is that a fundamental part of being human - a need to make people feel worse?
Is this how women feel when they’re about to give birth for the first time and everyone feels the need to tell you how long their labor was?
Anyway, I’m going to get it done on Friday, like I said. When I called to make the appointment, I was actually a little bit surprised by the lack of pomp and circumstance. I thought I’d have to come in several times and be looked over and made to feel worse, but in fact I just have to show up, and they’ll do the deed just like that.
I have the whole day blocked off. I’m going to do nothing but sit in front of the television and watch movies.
I’m just hoping I won’t have chipmunk cheeks. I am not looking forward to this.
Be sure to tell me your horror stories in the comments.
I heart BOAT
Feeling overwhelmed
At the moment, I’m feeling completely overwhelmed by the number of formulas I need to memorize in the next few weeks.
I’ve done a three hour class today, and I feel like I’ve been given a new formula a minute.
This is not the most fun I’ve had all year
Katie took the kids to Bell Buckle this weekend, and I stayed home to study.
Yippee!
I can’t eat Oreos
It has taken me all week and lots of stomach aches to realize that.
Apparently, people with stomach issues shouldn’t eat highly processed foods.
Live and learn.
The future of learning is web-based
I can’t express how convenient it is to do my CPA review classes online.
When I first signed up for the service, I was relieved that I wouldn’t have to do be in some West Knoxville strip mall until ten at night every Tuesday. But I had no clue just how convenient being able to attend classes online truly would be.
For starters, I’m not even attending the classes. Because the teacher instructs from the seat in front of her webcam, everything is recorded. Now when I sit down to “attend” class, I watch it in archives. I can push pause when I need to go to the bathroom or want to write something down that she said too fast, I can rewind when I miss something, and I can start a class session on Thursday and finish it on Friday.
Pause is a wonderful button. I can’t express how much better learning is when I can hit pause. This morning, I was watching a lecture on capital budgeting. I remember studying capital budgeting (incremental cash flow, oh my!) in college, but it’s been a while. After the teacher laid out the basics, and I had a page of notes, I hit pause, and I spent an hour going over the notes and trying to learn the concept before she went into further detail.
How nice is it to be able to hit pause like that and really learn a subject? How much better is that than sitting in a physical classroom? How much more am I going to get out of the rest of the lecture because I was able to hit pause?
Of course I can also hit pause when I want to check my email or do some blogging, which I said I wasn’t going to do, and now I really need to get back to work.
I have terrible handwriting
While studying for the CPA exam, I am taking a lot of notes, and I am reminded that I have terrible handwriting. As I’ve written before, I very much wish I had better handwriting.
