Progress: Caffeine (19 Mar 10)

[caffeine 0]

Journey, funny you mentioned that. I had my first checkup today and on my way back to the subway I bought myself a pizza for lunch. It was my first pizza since the pre-op diet.

Normally I'd have 2 or 3 pizzas for lunch and gobble them up in no time. This one I munched on really really slowly (technically I should be on pureed but I've been feeling so good lately). By the time I got to the subway, I wasn't done. Instead of waiting by the entrance to finish eating, I tossed it and went back to work. The old me would never have done that.

So I totally understand what you're saying and agree 100%. We really do need to unlearn some things.

[babsy 0]

Apologies!

AIG = Big insurance company that received bail-out money.

CDS = Credit default swap.

Courant = Mathematical institute of New York University.

Almost as arcane as Aussie slang. :-)

17 lbs speaks to me. :-) Just out of curiosity, do you think equally well in kg and lbs? In the US, all applied math, science and most scholarly engineering is done in SI (metric) but in day to day life we pretty much exclusively use English units.

I take it a lolly means "candy" and not "lollipop"? My friend calls everything sweet a lolly. It throws me for a loop.

Hi Caffeine

Aussie slang? Arcane? My poor international students have trouble getting their heads around it.

Yep, lolly means candy, and lollipop means lollipop. I think better in metric for weight and distance, but am still familiar enough with 'the old way' to quickly convert it in my head. Height I understand feet & inches better. Weird, but I'm not young so I learnt English style at school, and have had to convert for work.