Listening to Sir Ken Robinson...

MULTITASKING WOMEN WANTED
____________________________________wHAT?


 Is that crazy crazy idea, stupid bulshit, something  that just can lead a woman to develop alzheimer ,  is it already the buzz word de jour?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0000000000000000000ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

  I am a woman. Sadly for many people, I have never been a "multitasking being" (I insist that can´t be human). And I wouldn´t like to be like that. That is a urban legend, a woman dreamed by men. Although, perhaps some women want to be  a perfect woman who ´d sum up all the best in herself. Maybe Ken´s wife is of that sort, but she seems to me a poor exploited woman, far worse, even proud of it. 

  I am not like her surely. I raised two children on my own. Besides, I was able to care for nieces and nephews, and other relatives more than I´d have wanted.

 On the other hand, I´ve been an artist all my life. I ´ve painted more than 500 canvas, I play the guitar and the piano, I am an humble composer and an humble author too, writing in Spanish better than in English, of course. Meanwhile, I had to scratch a living looking after elderly people for twenty years, and working at my vegetable garden, digging included, was the more relaxing activity I´d  often practise. As a result, I am absolutely worn out, now that I´m fifty years old and look like ten years older, and nobody likes me. 

  When I was asked the next question: that  how I managed to do all that I did, I used to answer that there´s time to many, many things when you have no man to make you waste your time. 

  Imagine if I´ve used all the time I´ve had in my life just to create....That  has been my dream. I suppose I wouldn´t be a complete unknown by now.
  
 Sorry if I seem so self-important, so self-sufficient and self-conceited. If I were a man I´m sure that I´d be a good stand-up comedian too. I am still a sort of such a praise needy...  

Do schools kill creativity?

       http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity#t-314113

    I don´t mean to say that being wrong

implies being creative.

I mean that if we aren´t prepared to be wrong 

we´ll never come up with anything creative.

                                                                     Sir Ken Robinson

Who wants women to be multi task? I am a woman. I am against of being such a exploited being.

         I know that a layman, a common bloke, a normal fellow, is always a guy that knows much more than I.

Not because I am a woman, just because I don’t know why they manage to need twice as much of everything to obtain just a half that a woman does.

  I am talking mainly about the average young man. Maybe many of them are not professionals; but they will be given the opportunity to learn anything sooner or later and, oddly, they will be paid better than any woman for doing the same thing. No matter if they both are co-workers.

I have to do a description of any of these lucky guys.     

   

   Most of them are not necessarily intelligent. However, I am sure that they are very proud of themselves. Furthermore, every of them is a highly valuable being in contrast to any woman from any place, country, culture, continent or religion picked up at random. Even the more arrogant, ignorant, chauvinist blokes you know will be satisfied as they are what they are. But, I find that the more good they seem to be the more vain they are, and the more humble the more coward.

Besides, in contrast to a woman they do not have to effort so much. But a most outrageous difference is that meanwhile, a man is given alone to think, a intelligent woman (it is said that she is multi task) must stop and start, start and stop, more surely than twice, the same work that our chosen man is doing. And well, she is actually bound to do three or four things at the same time.

  Another point that helps us to distinguish them from the weaker sex is that men never cry. No man that I know will dare cry in public. If they are very nervous, then they will tend to drink and, if some of them are really miserable, they will die pretty soon.

To sum up, in my point of view:

Firstly as a daughter, second as the partner I was of some of them, and thirdly as a mother of the most brilliant, handsome, on one hand, and the most superficial , self-importance son I could ever had, on the other; Men are human beings really special.

  And as far as they do not usually like me I despite them all, mainly those that are between 17 and 75 years old who dare to compete against  me when I outdo them for such many things, mainly for trying to impress other people.

In fact, all of us know such many competitive and obviously possessive men that hopelessness is all that we can find. 

Scientists are showing that women intelligence rate is not equal to that of men. Intelligence depends on the genre.

 While most of the women are aligned in a normal range many men do not even reach five points of a standard rate of normality levels.

   Therefore, and despite being so hard to me admitting this fact, it seems that abnormality is sadly more common in men than we tend to believe.

This story is purely fictitious. Any resemblance to reality or existing persons is pure coincidence.

 Hi Juncal,

Sorry but to do the best of it I´m going to pour out my heart .

    You are right. I have to write something, and that will help to clear  up my mind.

                   

   I haven´t got idea what I´m doing here. I have got neither time down nor spare  money. I suppose my life spun left will be short.  The  best of all is that I have nothing to lose.   Everything I tried will be a waste of time and effort that I can ill afford.

    For instance:  I have already got too many tasks to end, and some unsettled deadlines to sort out, and far worse, such serious matters as three different trials: one civil and two criminal proceedings to examine.

Do you get the picture?

I´m even the defendant in the first criminal proceedings 

because of having been accused with abuse by my own nephew, so my life is getting a nightmare.

    My nephew  was nearly  eighteen when everything happened but, he was not. Therefore, that is why I got into troubles, because he was not an adult. So it  seems that if the person who attacks you is a minor,  in spite of  him being stronger and  bigger than you, you should let him hit you. Furthermore, it was him who started.

 Because of my baby sister remarks on my person I could not avoid the quarrel. I just know that my nephew then rushed up me. The left hand of him was ready to grab my neck  while its right fist was steady to hit my nose so, I picked up an empty glass from the arm of the couch, where I was sit down, and brandishing the glass in the air as a deterrent I threatened to broken it on his head. But, I didn´t even fling it to him! That is what he said when he accused me of: “That I flung the glass to him”. But, of course it´s false!

However, there was a little bloodshed. And my nephew is likely to be scarred for life after a little injury on his forehead ( “scarred for life” that is what he says in spite of the evidence that the glass was not broken..)

   Any way, even though what I did was in self-defence, all this dreadful story only means everlasting troubles to me.

So imagine that scoundrel ungrateful good-for-nothing nephew of mine dares to slander his very aunt, who is me, before a jury! How dare he tell such lies?

   But I admit he is not to blame. It´s all his mother´s fault and the way she raises her children.

   Maybe I should have told you before that the real capital problem in my family is my sister. She´s forty years old and so utterly beautiful that she looks an angel despite being an evil and such a witch. She´s so bad tempered that don´t wonder that all her partners run away from her as quickly as they fall into her appealing trap before. Although she´s got divorced twice , she has already broken up with at least five different partners so far. On the other hand she has never worked, and every time her newly increased family split up, she and her children, from different fathers, reunite here, in my mother´s house.
   It happens that sometimes some of her ex-boyfriends have come across each other more than they wish to. ( By the way: how the plural of “ex” is made?)

   To sum up: what you have just known about it means that the main character, the girl star of this fool soap-opera, is coming  back to Laredo and getting Mother´s home, and our mother is eighty years old! And although she has getting used to the more uneasy affairs, she´s very tired and she is whining to me now!

  This sister of mine has got three children. The eldest has already been in jail. I get sick, I feel like crying when I think of him. I love him. He´s twenty one, really handsome, tall and quite nice; he isn´t violent. How attractive he is. That´s why he can easily cheat people, and he does, he tricks others but me.  Since he was fifteen  the only business that has concerned himself has been  getting either weed to smoke or money to get weed to smoke. He had a growing marijuana plantation I don´t know where.

  As to the second child that has become a real problem to me, as you´ve already known, in spite of all I love him but, he´s even worse than his eldest brother.

I´m so worn out, so fed up with my baby sister´s insane behaviour and her problematic drug abuse, violent drawbacks included_ story of my life_ that I can´t cope with it any more.

  May you still take charge of it if I seem vague and absent-minded at any time, as well as very nervous, even pretty aggressive, or in a hurry at other different moments while attending your classes?

I would ask you to be patient with me. 

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Every time I read this short tale I find a mistake. No wonder teachers failed both of us, my friend and I.

  

  

                                        RESENTFULNESS AND revenge
 

   If your teacher is very insecure do not play jokes on her.

Last year I knew one that had to deal with the naughtiest child you can imagine.  The student was little and ugly but very funny and used to put into practice any new English word and idiom that she learned in the INTERNET, but our teacher did not like that, mainly when she did it wrong making others being confused.

Once that our classmate was joking cute words she was scolded off.  As a result the clever child responded:

“The day we spoke better you won´t understand us.”

Then she was put under punishment.

“And you´ll lose your job pompous wench!” shouted a ghostly voice into the teacher´s ears making her even more timorous.

Then despite the fact that the child apologized to her and spent her last savings, even the money she did not have (because she was very poor) buying a big box of chocolates to share in the classroom, and in spite of the fact that she learned all the lessons by heart during the year, the unbearable child was not forgiven and a powerful witch, that was her teacher´s friend, made her fail before summer came.

    It was quite unfair. My mate got just one point, the lower mark any stupid child was marked by in that school ever. Although the child knew that she would not pass the test successfully and the mocking mean witch did not want her to pass either, she was said exactly these words before being apparently, politely urged to leave the exam classroom:

 “Don´t worry.  It has been excellent”

 Instead of:

“Don’t worry. You will do it better next time”  

This way my friend got the worse score in her life.

When she knew it she burst into tears and fell apart.

   This frightening little story is quite dreadful mainly because it has been real. 
I don´t know eventually, if  our former teacher, the miserable witch´s friend lost her job. Nobody knows either what happend to her or where she is now.  Up to now, nobody has again run across her since.

But after this appalling experience the little student, who was not surely made to success, and  having failed so many times in her short life, realized that nothing that she could do is worth it. Now she is actually fairly avoiding a dreadful temptation of committing suicide every day, and this sad story that should have never happened and took place here, does not help.  

   So, in my opinion, although students are not on the best behaviour many times, teachers are obliged to keep in control. Because everybody knows that children learn by observing adults and the way they act.

I hope you´re going to comment.

                                          

         ODD CHILDREN

   An argumentative and defiant behaviour is not necessarily a problem. We all know odd fellows. Nowadays this kind of people is detected very soon during their childhood.

Some parents, teachers and doctors who have to cope with these children are saying that these kids may be suffering a new kind of disorder known as ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) _ If I Like studying English is because you can recreate new words that have been already existed since nobody knows when-

  In my opinion odd people play a very important role in the human evolution. I do not mean that these kids are born for the most part with a more evolved brain, I just saying that they cannot help being the way they are, and that the human kind would not have evolved the same without these defiant geeky fellows.

 It is estimated that between a 10 and a 15 per cent of the population is odd.

 But what would you think if the main factor that is behind any improvement, since the first ape stood up to walk on its two feet  or overcame the natural sensible fear to play with fire, were just odd people?

   Odd people are very necessary for their peers.

  However, they have been always unfairly treated, really.

Many times they risk their own lives only because they need to do common things in different ways, maybe because they are unable to make repetitions and the more they repeat an action the worse they do it.  Repetitive actions tend to make them brain dead because of the lack of interest. They are often very curious, and usually lazy, that is why they need to discover new facilities to make their life merely easier.

 
  Odd people have less probability to success than their neighbours, even to survive. But, every time their new ideas work everybody gain. They are not just dreamers that want their dreams to come true. They are defiant and nonconformist people. Perhaps this is the main reason that is making the Establishment think that odd people should be dealt quickly and harshly by making them have drugs since they are just children!!!