Too much information / the feeling of logic.

[scribal_goddess]

I posted last summer about popcorn thoughts, which allow a lot of things to be going on at the same time, and I have to say that they're a fairly normal state for me in a class. But today I got a logic headache, from information-related brainfreeze

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[scribal_goddess]

Yeah, most of the people I meet are either firmly right-brained or very firmly left-brained. This leads to such wonderful conversations as today's (upon reading something my friend had lying around the room,) "If a dude is skinny enough that you can see his ribs, how the heck could he be described as androgynous? You can tell a person's gender from their skeleton."
Friend: "Yeah, if the person looking is you or Sherlock Holmes."
Me: "No, seriously, that's the only foolproof way to determine the gender of ancient corpses, if they find the pelvic bones. Male skeletons have completely different structure because they don't have to accomadate for the possibility of massive infant heads passing through an opening in that bone."
Friend: "You need a different book. Or possibly less internet."

The problem I run into lately is more that people seem to have a double standard: my interest in mummies wouldn't be considered creepy if I was a dude, but since I'm a chick, and it's not either romantic or cuddly or squeaky clean? Yeah, people think I'm Wednesday Addams. :(

Actually, codebreaking's geared towards people who are either left-brained but close to the middle, or right brained tending towards the middle, straight up middle people, and partners of one left-brained and one right-brained person, just because it involves language theory and common sense as well as statistics and logic. You never know who will work well: for example, we might get on famously as codebreakers because we're not both right brained. (I've gotten a lot of complete left-brainers as class partners, including the interrupting chess champion, and some work a lot better than others.)

[scribal_goddess]

Group work is still the bane of my existence. I mean, it's fine if the whole group has clearly defined things to do, I get through it, but I forever find myself waiting for people and most of the time I just give up, do it on my own, and then coach them. Then there's the ever-present pitfall of working with friends: somebody always relies on somebody else to carry them through the project.

Anatomy was a course where I said, "well, I should take it now, because if I can handle a fresh smelly dead pig then I can probably handle dried up mummies." And then I learned all the bones and all the muscles and hey, people come to me all the time for medical advice. Guess being morbid is useful when people come wandering into my room going "do you think my wrist is swelling?" or "I think I pinched a nerve, do you know how to tell...?"

I've never been quiet, but I get on in classes. Of course, I run a club too, so, you know, people better get used to me taking things over. I do that a bit because everyone else sits there twiddling their thumbs. :/ Yeah, fortunately, most of my classes are science-based, so girls don't find smart girls to be an oddity - you'd better hope you don't have a ditz for a flame lab partner, for example.

Well, there may be a reason that I was gifted with a large compilation of Sherlock Holmes stories for christmas by my friends...

My brother got the music and math genes (supposedly they're the same gene?) - he's further left brained - I got to be middle brained. I suppose my mom is fairly middle brained or right to middle, she majored in art and biology. (She wanted to illustrate feild guides for botany and birdwatching and the like... which is why I now know every wildflower in my state and all the native trees.)

Yeah, we got to the math part today in class. It was kind of one of those things that I can accept but can't actually work with.