Winking

I wink everytime I smile. I only found out fairly recently that I do this, and now I wonder about whether people thought I was deliberately winking at them.... It's nice, but sometimes it gets embarassing when it's misinterpreted!

People say I far too often. I do it without thinking sometimes. Apparently, I even do it to guys!!!

Never. That is so cheesy.

I don't wink very often. But I love it when people wink at me. I love the feeling of complicity.

I wink at my friends.

I'm not aware of it. I recently dated a woman who had an aversion to winking. It made me more aware of how often I do it. It is totally automatic. Apparently I started doing it at a very early age. My mother wrote it into my "Baby Book". You know, the one where they record at what age the baby sits up, walks, talks, crawls, etc.?

I can't wink without squishing half my face together, unless I'm on line or typing something to you wonderful folks

I only seem to *wink* online

I never wink, but I do the spock one raised eyebrow thing. I also do a spiral in eye thing to suggest 'you have an aura around you; theres a whole wide world and you're the center of it.' Nothing at all like the pensive french disdain eye roll that suggests I will look at all of the world except you. I also bow to people a lot.Sometimes I turn my head slightly away but open eyes wide while looking at them and almost biting my lip (I bet Jemmy does that one too). I love facial expressions; they are so vast and subtle in their range.

Same entirety here. It's in there with doing the lambada; People say it looks right but it seems it should feel like an organic flow, not clumsy and engineered.

I use winking to accent punchlines.

Due a problem with the muscles around my eyes, I am unable to wink.

I don't wink unless I accidently don't push the shift key while I'm hitting the semi-colon key.

I bet your eye muscles get tired!

LOL Unfortunately, some people don't know when I'm joking...about either.

I rarely wink.

I just assume you're always joking, unless you say "I'm serious. This really happened. I'm not making it up!" like you did in that one survey. (The one about the recurring dreams, I think?) Then I figure I'm pretty much on the mark!

Yes. I like trade quips with the folks here. I love all the straight lines floating around each survey. Irresistable!

The mispellings are a hoot too; One gal takes longer to get ready in the morning when she does her hare.

Last time I did my hare...ahh...oh, never mind.

lol

I only wink at surveys that I'm responding to as a joke or agreeing to..

I bite my lip when I'm thinking really hard about something. And I tilt my head a lot. I don't know if I do that thing with my eyes a lot though. Probably. I've been told a million times that I have a lot of facial expressions.

I haven't heard much from you lately. How's summer going?

Great! I went to PEI with my stepmother and brother for a few days, and we got to go to the beach. My stepmother is having twins! I'm also going to Maine for a few days and to New Jersey to visit my dad and family. My mom gets off work soon for a month, so it will mean a lot more beach days, which is awesome because the weather is amazing. I haven't seen a lot of my friends yet, but I plan on it soon. How's your summer?

I wish I was making it to the beach more than the couple of times I've done so far. I registered as a full time student again. So, you're going to be a big step-sister. Cool.

Yeah, I've only gone once so far. The weather is working against me, but I'll have more opportunities in august. Congratulations on being a student! What are you taking?
I already have a little half brother who just turned two, so now I'll have three little half-siblings and one older sister. (Who is leaving for university soon)

Philosophy of Religion
Photography
Child Growth and Development
Data Structures with Java
and, if I get my transcript in time, Advanced Creative Writing.

Cool! Are you doing anything for a certain job, or just taking the classes because you enjoy it?

All of these are to fullfill transfer requirements for UCLA (if I can get in there) for a teaching degree although I already have associates degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science and know most of this stuff already. Additional reasons (besides interest and assisting others) include:
Philosophy of Religion - build minister credentials.
Photography - motivation to do more 3D & spirit work.
Child Growth and Development - ?
Data Structures with Java - I registered for this one before and forgot about that; They wouldn't let me take it off my transcript so now I have to take it just to correct my grade point average. I think my final project will be an expert system to choose the best class schedules for students. I might be a lab assistant again too.
Advanced Creative Writing. - motivation to write childrens books.

Wow, you're good at everything aren't you? And I had trouble picking my classes for high school! (I took forever and changed them and I'm still not happy.)

Here is the system I chose my classes for most of college with. Perhaps you'll remember it when the time comes. Pick the top 30 or so classes you might want or need from the catalog. List those on graph-paper in the first column. Make more columns for 'Fun', 'Requirements/Prerequisites', and 'Career'. For each class rate it on a 1-10 scale for each of the 3 criteria for instance Calculus might get 8 for prereq (needed for computer degree), 2 for fun (not very), and 3 for career (sure you're programming, but still no one uses calculus at work) which gives you a combined score of 13 for calculus. This will tell you which of your 30 or 40 classes are most vital (in a wholistic fashion). Take the top 10 classes (with their optional schedules) and put them on a graph-paper hour/day grid, each in a different color/texture. That way you can see which classes overlap or go back to back. I use this technique to arrange an all Monday/Wedensday schedule that leaves the other days free for homework instead of commuting just for one class or two.

But I'm only allowed to take seven classes. My problem was that I had to choose between biology (I'm already taking scince), drama and spanish. I could only pick two of those.

This system works even if you are trying to get just one class.
Example (use your own numbers):
Biology: prereq-7, fun-3, career-3 = 13.
Drama: prereq-1, fun-8, career-7 = 16.
Spanish: prereq-4, fun-4, career-7 = 15.
Drama should be your first choice, followed by spanish then biology, especially since you already have a science class. The next step is to see how the schedules overlap; not much of a problem to graph when you're only concerned with periods, and more difficult when classes could occur any time of the day or week. In this case you might see that drama (1st priority) is only offered at 4th period, which rules out spanish for now, also offered only 4the period, but allows biology offered both 4th and 5th periods.

In that case, I suck at this because I cut out drama. There was more to it than that though. They make up a schedule for me, so I don't have to do the whole overlapping thing. I helped my sister do it though. My reasoning behind cutting out drama though, was based on this: Spanish can only be taken in 11th grade if it was taken in 10th, etc. So if I ever want to take it, now is the time. Drama can be taken any time throughout my three high school years. I am taking regular science (required in grade ten) and biology because you need four science credits to graduate in three years. This way, I won't have to take two sciences in 11th grade (the most challenging year, I've been told by teachers and students) and I won't have to take it in 12th grade, when I need to take what I am interested in and what I am good at to get into university. My sister had to take chemistry in 12th grade, and basically it made her lose a $1000 scholarship to her school of choice. This way, I can take the hardest class (biology) in the easiest year, make sure I get at least one year of spanish in, and still take drama next year to help me with public speaking (why I wanted the course) and it will be something fun to do in the hardest year.

You didn't fill in your own numbers. If you had, knowing what you knew about Spanish that i didn't, then you would have given Spanish a higher prerequisite score, which even if the other numbers remained the same would have made it the most urgent, not drama.

What does prerequisite mean?

For some classes you need a prerequisite, you must have completed another class before you can take it.

pre required. For instance Spanish 1 is a prerequisite for Spanish 2, you have to take it first. College courses have a trail of prereqs, for instance you might have to take calculus 2 for a programming class that leads to another, or take English to take psychology to take child education classes.

Okay, I get it. Like, I can't take intermediate yoga unless I've passed beginner first.

Okay, yeah. I don't think there is any prerequisite for biology. I just don't want to have to take a lot of science in the next two years. My main problem is that I don't know if I'd rather concentrate on sciences or fine arts.

Exactement, vous avez raison

Arts are easier to return to than sciences if you change your mind. That's why I'm doing a science degree at university. If I don't, I can't ever work in science without going back to university but I can still get a job that is arts or humanities based (which is more like what I want to do - aid work/human rights campaigning is what I'm looking at now).

Can't help you there. Aim for what you'd be good at.

But I'm not really good at either! I'm not really a writer or an artist or actress or musician. I'm also not a scientest, and I am terrible at math.

That's true, but I don't think I could go very far in university on a science degree. I mean, you need good math skills for all that don't you?

Yo no comprendo frances! (I'm going to take spanish)

Good maths for science? I hope not! I should be able to do a biological sciences degree on GCSE maths (Y11 - last year of compulsory schooling) because I'm not taking maths now. Mainly you need to be able to understand statistics but that's not too hard. If you want to do biological sciences, you should be able to show you have a good grasp of basic maths but nothing fancy - if you can do fairly simple algebra, you'll be fine

See, that's the thing. I was a good student in math this year (the level where it's supposed to get harder) but the basic math is not there. I can barely add, subtract, multiply and divide. I can't do a single thing without qorking it out on a calculator. Also, I'm not very logical.

People skills are probably your strength. If so the options you might aim for include beautician, psychologist, travel agent, product rep, anything that depends on having a good talk with someone.

If a virus population is equal to P x t**1.8 (where P is poplation and t is number of growth hours), at what rate is the population changing on the 4th hour? This requires calculus.

Moi aussi, je vais avoir un cours d'Espagnol cette session.

I haven't covered calculus (at least I have never heard this term related to something I have been taught). My point was that universities are interested in people who have proven maths ability rather than people who have necessarily covered what will be required. Several of the universities that I am looking at have a compulsory maths module for science students - I should be taught what I need.

Don't show me up!

If you really can't get the basics to come, then you may find further scientific education difficult. That doesn't mean you'd make a bad scientist, just that the course you take would be challenging. Degrees have completely different expectations of you than real life research does.

My dad's a scientist (my mum was/is one too) and he only very rarely has to do any conscious maths. (I say conscious because some pedantic so and so will come along and tell me otherwise if I don't! ).

Do you think so? I guess people do tend to like me. I went to a wedding with my stepmother where I had only met a few people very briefly, but all these people just walked up to me. One of my friends says I look approachable. A psychologist? lol I can barely deal with my own screwed up life, let alone other peoples!

You taking spanish? (That's all I got out of it) Cool, when I learn anough, we can talk to each other in it!

Hmm...that's interesting. What can you do with a sciences degree? I guess be a doctor or something, but the day somebody trusts me with their life...and I can't understand taking math in school. You get a math degree and practically the only job you can get is teaching it to other people, who graduate to teach it to other people, etc. It's weird.

Thats all I said

I wink at Friends. It's sort of like a visual hug. I've never winked at a stranger before. Wonder what'd happen if I did? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more, eh?

Glad you're a good sport.

Oh wow, I can wink now. I was never able to do that before (without the face scrunching). I was just imagining myself winking at strangers, et voila.

I do, I do.

Eureka! I winked at a stranger and completely cured her of her face-scrunching winklessness! It's a MIRACLE. Hmmm, wonder how I can make a profit from this??? Think I'll start with my own infomercial. Kristal, how do you feel about product endorsements?

Before and after photos, sure. Posters on phone poles: wanted - 75 people who can't wink.
That's a quote not to be lost 'face-scrunching winklessness'.
On the other hand, perhaps you'll have to undergo years of lab trials and FDA approval. I could end up like the commisioner in the clousseau / pink panther movie, 'A shot in the dark'. It could also become contagious to the point in which everone is constantly winking, and the coy will be those who don't wink for a moment.

Maybe I shouldn't have dropped french!

You can do pretty much anything with a science degree! You can get a job in arts/humanities *or* science. Within science, there's so much you can do. It ranges right from research (which can be more fun than it sometimes sounds) right through to medical stuff. Medicine doesn't mean doctor/nurse necessarily - there's loads of work in this field. Doctors and nurses need good general skills but they aren't the people who keep the health service going. Think of all the jobs behind the scenes - lab technicians, pharmacologists, etc.

That sounds cool. I know what I really what to do is be a fashion designer, or a fashion editor for a magazine. A lot of people tend to roll their eyes or something when I mention fashion as a career, but I like it.

If that's what you really want to do, you should go for it

Thanks.

Wow. I truly had not considered the possible ramifications of curing face-scrunching winklessness in the general population. It could possibly alter the course of human civilization as we know it. Think I'll be careful where I aim my -er from now on.