Today was a pretty normal day. I think I'm finally falling into the routine of reviewing kanji, hitting one page of the pronunciation book, and moving on to the text book for whatever time we have left in the day. Today we stopped reviewing an hour early to complete some kind of exam. I'm still not entirely sure exactly what the purpose of the exam is or why we took it though. It seems like twelve days in class is too soon to be taking a placement exam but they did put a lot of emphasis on today and the exam.
All and all, I feel like I did pretty mediocre. It's not like any of the material was particularly difficult. The big problem I have is understanding the directions when I'm lucky enough to have them. There have been several sections on this exam and previous test where I get the impression that the format is somewhat well known so they don't bother explaining it to noobs like myself.
As for today's title, this is a rant I've been setting on for a minute. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people physically touch a screen or monitor instead of pointing out what they want to draw attention too. At my last office some people would press the screen and drag their fingers around on it leaving trails of colorful light that's being reduced to the basic red, green, blue, etc. This happened a while ago when I had guests over to watch a movie on my 52" LCD TV. Now why adults would have to touch a three thousand dollar TV like they were going to pull the food out of the commercial is beyond me. I could only come up with two theories. The first was that they've never seen this kind of magic box with moving pictures before and they really did believe they could touch what was on the screen. The second idea I had was that they had been told that some TV's are really giant cookies and if they eat it, their wish will come true.
If you've heard this store before then listen. I promise you, there is no such thing as a giant TV cookie that grants wishes so please stop going around touching other people's screens.
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