No spatial relationship(s)

I do not have a brain that processes spatial relations well. I can write anything, I can talk to humans very successfully and I can think my way through almost any paradigm that does not involve numbers or equations. I'm not stupid. But I cannot get things to fit into, on top of, beneath or around other things. It's very, very frustrating!

I've been fighting this damn easel for ten solid minutes and I can see the holes where the screws should go and two slots that seem eerily appropriate to the two metal tabs I can identify and I CANNOT, CANNOT get this damn thing together!

What does it take, a frickin' Ph.D?

Well, I have one of those and I STILL can't get this damn thing together. I have consulted two other colleagues and neither of them can get it together, either. Three highly effective women cannot get one ridiculously simple-looking easel up and ready to take a flip chart.

This is ridiculous.

I am going to go get a man. Ten to one he will look at this thing once and put it together in 20 seconds.

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Four minutes. He did it in four minutes. It took him about three minutes forty seconds to figure out that the two holes have nothing to do with the two screws and only one of the tabs goes into a slot. It was a bait-and-switch.

Gonna talk here at 11:15 on Thursday, November 3rd

The New Jersey Women and AIDS Network (NJWAN) Annual Conference:

Confronting the Crisis 2011: Women and HIV Conference

http://www.njwan.org/conference/agenda.html

I have a morning workshop slot. I'm excitedly figuring out how to get maximal audience participation rolling.

Then talking at Hunter College that evening, in a colleague's class. It should be fun!

Puzzled

I don't understand why "The Kids in the Hall" are funny. Michael keeps showing me clips. I just don't understand. What was this about?

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Best phrase today, courtesy of rio_luna:

"laundry--like the Wheel of Karma, eternal"

Thank you for that.