Good Advice

[Betty]

Speaking of pizza, a pizza stone is your oven helps to retain the oven temp even when you aren't cooking pizza - so just leave it in there.

[Alex]

Just make sure you know how to pronounce. Back in college there was a toga party (how cliche!) and the invite used the word bacchanal. I thought another person on the floor was being funny when she kept pronouncing it "batch-anal." Which made it an entirely different party and her the butt (heh heh) of many jokes for the rest of the year (could have been worse, in 9th grade there was a girl who though an orgy was a big scary monster; she had four years of living that one down).

The only thing worse than using bigger words than people are comfortable with is pronouncing them incorrectly.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Consider therapy, even if you think it wouldn't be useful.

Make a list of "lowest common denominator" tasks for yourself each day - without which, your day will not flow well or feel right. Do you best to do them every day. My personal list includes:
- showering before doing anything else, after waking up
- morning journaling
- making healthy food for the day, and eating small meals regularly
- taking a moment to myself at the beginning of the workday, pouring water and putting fruit in my water pitcher
- taking meds regularly
- swimming

When working with a client, and you have bad news to tell them, come armed with solutions, not just problems.

Call or write to follow up on a job application or interview.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

- taking a moment to myself at the beginning of the workday, pouring water and putting fruit in my water pitcher
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What kind of fruit?

[flippyshark]

Guess I better brush up on my International Phonetic Alphabet. (I had to learn it as a vocal performance major, so I could perform foreign language songs correctly.) I got really good at it, even the symbols for phonemes we don't use in English, but I find today that every bit of that knowledge is gone. (And mispronouncing a word makes me very embarrassed indeed!) Time to re-study.

[Alex]

You can hear it pronounced here. Just click the little speaker icon next to Bac·cha·na·li·a

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I would however recommend having a reason to use bacchanalia in conversation often in life.

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

No? I think I'd have to disagree. I think life should be one long bacchanalia.

I said "would recommend". Would.



On a related note to all of this, whether you choose to show it off or not, my advice is to cultivate a good working knowledge of language and vocabulary. More than just the utilitarian need for clear communication, there's a fair amount of research that indicates that the better you are at being able to express ideas, the better you are at thinking. If you don't have a word for something, odds are you don't understand it.

[flippyshark]

Yes, I'm already good with that word, thanks. (Been a while since I got to go to one, though.)

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I said "would recommend". Would.



On a related note to all of this, whether you choose to show it off or not, my advice is to cultivate a good working knowledge of language and vocabulary. More than just the utilitarian need for clear communication, there's a fair amount of research that indicates that the better you are at being able to express ideas, the better you are at thinking. If you don't have a word for something, odds are you don't understand it.

Advice to self: Improve your reading comprehension.

I was just thinking about the importance of having a decent vocabulary as well as using proper English. I was listening to a Mom and her young son converse. She was using improper sentences and he responded using the same improper wording. Unless the boy learns to speak well, he will have some major limitations in life.

That, of course, led me to considering if the kid really has any expectations of a successful life.

[BarTopDancer]

My co-worker, who is from Ohio constantly says "I seen". I think it's regional but it drives me bonkers (and my grammar is atrocious).