marcicat | seminar time!

These things are always great for at least one post — today was learning tiemz; there was an offsite seminar on how to be a leader (hint: lead) and team builder (hint: it’s the empty cigarette lighter and the steel wool that are the most important in that plane survival exercise — go team go!).

Here are some gems of wisdom:
“Throwing in the towel is easy, but it’s not a success strategy.”

“Other people in general drive us crazy.”

In other news:
1. Apparently mind mapping is back! I did this back in the 4th grade, when it was still called a ‘thought web,’ and I thought it was silly because I wanted to make a linear outline (I liked the roman numerals). [But then there was that Smallville fic, where Lex got Clark hired as the building manager for an off-campus apartment and Clark had window boxes and made pie and his teacher was Adam Pierson and the class came over for study group and he had mind maps for his notes and that did sort of make them cool for me in a very small dorky way.]

2. Pipe cleaners are now officially called “Fuzzy Sticks” on the packaging. (There were lols, and I bravely kept them all inside.) We made a peace sign in my group. Because peace is awesome, just like my group. Actually, I was assigned the ‘can’t talk’ role during the activity, which just shows how well I fooled the instructor into thinking I was an extrovert. (She asked how it felt afterwards, and I was all, ‘I liked it! Let’s do more silent craft projects that my boss is paying for!’)

3. Yet another personality profiling system: the elements! Get this: there’s Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and… HEART, AND WHEN YOU COMBINE YOUR POWERS YOU GET CAPTAIN PLANET! Well, no, actually the fifth one is “fusion,” which just means you’re good at lying to others, which I totally respect as a useful job skill. But I liked the Captain Planet way better. I’m Wheeler, apparently (even though I totally thought his name was Rusty — where did that even come from?).

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