Thursday, 23. April 2015
Nerdist Solutions
ell, 23:39h
Although it is quite some time past now, In order for this to work I have to start at the beginning of this school block, when my class somehow ended up sitting exactly like it had in the last block, despite our best efforts not to. This had me sitting on the right end of the second row, next to one of our 'elders', a nice lady and a lot of fun to sit next to.
Then, one of our people left, and the one who was subsequently sitting alone asked me, if I could switch places with her, under the pretext that she was shortsighted and would be able to read more easily further up front. I already suspected then, that there was another reason underlying, and I was to find out soon, when I switched with her to the left end of the third row, where I was to have a double-desk for my own.
Now, the one who requested the swap of seats was the one known to you already as 'Hellen' from my Night in Town and the two who were now seated to my right were the other two from that adventure, Susan sitting directly next to me and Ann next to the middle corridor.
At first I didn't think anything about it, but with time I found that the two of them can be very annoying. For once they continually chat. No matter which subject or what time of day, they always talk and talk and talk. I don't even know what the hell they still have to talk about. And then, when they don't know what's going on, because they were talking all the time, they lean over to me to look at my notes.
Here I maybe should say that their advances are stalled by two things:
a) I have a horrible handwriting, at least for a girl. I know a few boys who are worse, but most people complain about it at some point.
b) I make my notes in a way that I can work with them. That means, if we have to take notes all for ourselves, then they aren't necessarily in a way others can work with them, too.
But somehow they seemed to have gotten around at least the first obstacle, for the repeated questions of 'what did you write there?' soon became less frequent. Still I constantly had a face looming over my shoulder as soon as I started out to write anything. And somehow that has become especially annoying this week.
But today I finally had the idea of how to annoy them for a change. I had been talking with Hellen yesterday at lunch, with whom I'm getting along astonishingly well, and somehow we once again ended up on how those other two are just sooooo annoying. During this conversation she also happened to mention that the two can adapt to ones way of writing rather quickly, if nothing else.
And today, when I was getting really annoyed once again, I thought, what if I had a way of writing that they simply could not read? And thinking of that I somehow also thought of Aurebesh. What better way would there be to do that for a nerd?
Now, for all who are not familiar with it, Aurebesh is the way of writing used in Star Wars. For the Jedi-Franchise does not actually feature speakable languages besides basic, but some nerds eventually took upon themselves the task of actually developing the style of writing often used into an actual script. So especially in the Star Wars games, the signs there actually have a meaning, if you know how to read them.
Sadly I am currently not quite fluent in Aurebesh so I could not use my last chance to try it out today. For tomorrow I'll be sitting up front on a seat recently vacated by another elder who had to quit / take a break, because both her daughter and her mother are ill. And that is a so much better solution.
I'll then be sitting next to our eldest, with whom I have already had a conversation about Sherlock Holmes that had us ending up on London, St. Petersburg and Architecture. Plus I'll not be in the middle of the talking triangle anymore, for the second and fourth row are talking just as much as the second, but have them behind me. I don't really know if that is an improvement, given that they will all behind me then, but at least I'll be sitting nearer to the teacher, so if I actually want to listen, I'll at least have better chances to understand anything.
Then, one of our people left, and the one who was subsequently sitting alone asked me, if I could switch places with her, under the pretext that she was shortsighted and would be able to read more easily further up front. I already suspected then, that there was another reason underlying, and I was to find out soon, when I switched with her to the left end of the third row, where I was to have a double-desk for my own.
Now, the one who requested the swap of seats was the one known to you already as 'Hellen' from my Night in Town and the two who were now seated to my right were the other two from that adventure, Susan sitting directly next to me and Ann next to the middle corridor.
At first I didn't think anything about it, but with time I found that the two of them can be very annoying. For once they continually chat. No matter which subject or what time of day, they always talk and talk and talk. I don't even know what the hell they still have to talk about. And then, when they don't know what's going on, because they were talking all the time, they lean over to me to look at my notes.
Here I maybe should say that their advances are stalled by two things:
a) I have a horrible handwriting, at least for a girl. I know a few boys who are worse, but most people complain about it at some point.
b) I make my notes in a way that I can work with them. That means, if we have to take notes all for ourselves, then they aren't necessarily in a way others can work with them, too.
But somehow they seemed to have gotten around at least the first obstacle, for the repeated questions of 'what did you write there?' soon became less frequent. Still I constantly had a face looming over my shoulder as soon as I started out to write anything. And somehow that has become especially annoying this week.
But today I finally had the idea of how to annoy them for a change. I had been talking with Hellen yesterday at lunch, with whom I'm getting along astonishingly well, and somehow we once again ended up on how those other two are just sooooo annoying. During this conversation she also happened to mention that the two can adapt to ones way of writing rather quickly, if nothing else.
And today, when I was getting really annoyed once again, I thought, what if I had a way of writing that they simply could not read? And thinking of that I somehow also thought of Aurebesh. What better way would there be to do that for a nerd?
Now, for all who are not familiar with it, Aurebesh is the way of writing used in Star Wars. For the Jedi-Franchise does not actually feature speakable languages besides basic, but some nerds eventually took upon themselves the task of actually developing the style of writing often used into an actual script. So especially in the Star Wars games, the signs there actually have a meaning, if you know how to read them.
Sadly I am currently not quite fluent in Aurebesh so I could not use my last chance to try it out today. For tomorrow I'll be sitting up front on a seat recently vacated by another elder who had to quit / take a break, because both her daughter and her mother are ill. And that is a so much better solution.
I'll then be sitting next to our eldest, with whom I have already had a conversation about Sherlock Holmes that had us ending up on London, St. Petersburg and Architecture. Plus I'll not be in the middle of the talking triangle anymore, for the second and fourth row are talking just as much as the second, but have them behind me. I don't really know if that is an improvement, given that they will all behind me then, but at least I'll be sitting nearer to the teacher, so if I actually want to listen, I'll at least have better chances to understand anything.
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quadrotriticale,
Mon 2015-04-27 17:58
Elvish would look nice, too.
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ell,
Mon 2015-04-27 18:09
Yeah, but I think Aurebesh is still a little easier, since it's mostly linear. I think I'd totally screw up Elvish.
And I have now started to scribble quotes on the margins of my sheets in Aurebesh in the German lessons...
And I have now started to scribble quotes on the margins of my sheets in Aurebesh in the German lessons...
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