I say "I have an unrequited love for mathematics" but if I'm honest I'm just careless in a way that I'm not with my writing - I make dumb mistakes and don't see them when I check my work, and I don't have any sense of "of course that's right" when I finish a problem.
Numbers. Obvious, but numbers - I don't have an innate sense of what's 'about right' in a sum/equation. I have difficulty seeing the relationships between parts of equations (you know, going through to rearrange them), and relationships between, for example, cm2 and m2. I can do the stuff if I work at it, and look things up, but to me it's all impenatrable relationships, and answers that I can't tell right from wrong.
Incidentally, I think I had very good maths teaching, which managed to drag my incomprehension to an A at GCSE.
Where did you buy your kilt, how much did you spend, and when will you wear it in the States?
I ask because I had thought to buy a kilt last year, but I was dissuaded by the expense (hundreds of quid!) and the realization that it's approximately as formal as a tuxedo, which I never have any occasion to wear, so when would I wear a kilt?
I still sort of want one, just because, but I'm not prepared to spend a ridiculous sum.
I bought my kilt (full outfit- shirt, socks, flashes, sgian dubh, sporran, Prince Charlie jacket, bow-tie) for £400 at Pronuptia in Oxford. New, they're about double that. I was about to shell out over £100 to rent it (for a wedding) and the place was closing down so it was on sale. Plus I'd just come into some unexpected money which more or less made up the difference.
Yeah, it's formal - weddings, balls and ceilidhs are the only places it makes sense to wear it... but I prefer it to a suit.
You could also buy some bagpipes and make some easy cash annoying tourists ;o)
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Incidentally, I think I had very good maths teaching, which managed to drag my incomprehension to an A at GCSE.
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Where did you buy your kilt, how much did you spend, and when will you wear it in the States?
I ask because I had thought to buy a kilt last year, but I was dissuaded by the expense (hundreds of quid!) and the realization that it's approximately as formal as a tuxedo, which I never have any occasion to wear, so when would I wear a kilt?
I still sort of want one, just because, but I'm not prepared to spend a ridiculous sum.
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Yeah, it's formal - weddings, balls and ceilidhs are the only places it makes sense to wear it... but I prefer it to a suit.
You could also buy some bagpipes and make some easy cash annoying tourists ;o)
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