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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 30th day of the 3rd month and the 90th day of 2016. The moon is in the last quarter and the day is also: - Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day
- Manatee Appreciation Day
- National Doctors Day
- National I am in Control Day
- Pencil Day
- Take a Walk in the Park Day
- Torrents Day
- Turkey Neck Soup Day
- World Bi-polar Day
You want to know what kind of day it is today? In history, this is what I found: “ In 598 the Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague. “ That sentence tells me absolutely nothing. Nada. I am sure there is information that is contained in there, but my head just isn’t processing why it is of note or why I [or anyone else] should care that the barbarians are storming the gate then getting sick.
Along the same lines are a couple of things we are doing at work – specifically, my nemesis of the MRRA [maintenance and repairs reserve account]. These accounts caused me the worst problem I have faced in years and years of loan servicing as I mis-read how they were to be calculated and caused some issues here at work, a problem that literally took months to resolve to bossman’s satisfaction. We found the issue back in the early fall of 2014 and I have been struggling valiantly with it ever since. I just cannot get my mind wrapped around the accounting for these reserves; it just doesn’t make any blasted sense to me. I have read the loan documents. I have listened to bossman. I have made calculations. I’m sure that everything is in English, but almost two years later, I STILL don’t completely get it! Realized that when I tried to explain it to a borrower this afternoon and bossman had to step in – I’ll be danged but I swear he said the exact same thing that I did. And yet the conclusion he agreed to when the borrower repeated it was totally different than the one that I had reached! Obviously I haven’t grasped something and I will need to circle back and figure it out.
Of course today, I am not terribly sanguine about my ability to assimilate information. Reminds me of back in the day when I tried to interpolate logarithms, something that we faced after we hit trigonometry. I had enjoyed trig, but logs? I didn’t get it. I heard every single word. I could repeat what the teacher said back to him. I could write the process down. But then ask me to do the calculation…. . And I blew it every single time. For two terms. Only D that I ever got on my report card. The teacher met with my mother and told her that I had done everything he asked – put in extra time, done extra homework, gotten tutoring, walked through it in front of the whole class, but there was a simple basic disconnect that was so profound that he couldn’t even figure out why I always got the wrong answer. It was the inglorious end of my progress in mathematics, physics, and engineering
On such hurdles, our life’s course changes.
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