So here's a funny story that turns out to be not so funny.
While taking half-hearted stabs at gaining employment, I've been making up projects to keep myself busy. One of these projects is an elaborate personal timeline of my life since graduation from high school. As I had written in previous posts, it's my 20 year reunion next year, and that got me to thinking "what the hell have I been doing?" Also, I was inspired by the disastrous interview with VBOT during which they asked me what I've been doing since 1998, and I couldn't tell them. Shameful.
For this timeline, I'm documenting education, work, vacations, and family medical history (because that has really affected my timeline in recent years). Doing this has been cathartic, instructive, and kind of depressing. And I'm still not finished doing 1988-1998.
But I ran into a problem which I couldn't quite figure out. I have been using past resumes and time markers such as graduations and holidays to navigate through my past. For instance, I knew that when I got my Bachelor's Degree from SFU and diploma from Kwantlen, I took vacations to Florida. I also knew that I went to California between those vacations to Florida. However, when I placed these vacations on my timeline, things didn't add up. There wasn't enough of a break between my educational experiences (I finished SFU in the summer semester and then started at Kwantlen in the fall semester).
Confused, I searched my memory for clues. I knew that the Canucks were playing in the Stanley Cup finals while we were in Disneyland; we watched the final game on a really big screen at Universal Studios. According to wikipedia, the Canucks were in the playoffs in 1994. I also knew that the Indiana Jones ride was under construction while we were there. According to my internet resources, the Indiana Jones ride opened in 2005. Both of these clues indicated that the California trip was in 1994. But that was weird because I was sure that I finished school in 1994.
Apparently not. I dug out my degree from SFU, which is dated 1993. Terrific. This means that I've had a glaring, significant error on my resume since I don't know when. I wonder what else I have wrong on my resume. I'd better check how I spelled my name.
Funny? NO. This all doesn't speak well of my copyediting and proofreading skills.
While taking half-hearted stabs at gaining employment, I've been making up projects to keep myself busy. One of these projects is an elaborate personal timeline of my life since graduation from high school. As I had written in previous posts, it's my 20 year reunion next year, and that got me to thinking "what the hell have I been doing?" Also, I was inspired by the disastrous interview with VBOT during which they asked me what I've been doing since 1998, and I couldn't tell them. Shameful.
For this timeline, I'm documenting education, work, vacations, and family medical history (because that has really affected my timeline in recent years). Doing this has been cathartic, instructive, and kind of depressing. And I'm still not finished doing 1988-1998.
But I ran into a problem which I couldn't quite figure out. I have been using past resumes and time markers such as graduations and holidays to navigate through my past. For instance, I knew that when I got my Bachelor's Degree from SFU and diploma from Kwantlen, I took vacations to Florida. I also knew that I went to California between those vacations to Florida. However, when I placed these vacations on my timeline, things didn't add up. There wasn't enough of a break between my educational experiences (I finished SFU in the summer semester and then started at Kwantlen in the fall semester).
Confused, I searched my memory for clues. I knew that the Canucks were playing in the Stanley Cup finals while we were in Disneyland; we watched the final game on a really big screen at Universal Studios. According to wikipedia, the Canucks were in the playoffs in 1994. I also knew that the Indiana Jones ride was under construction while we were there. According to my internet resources, the Indiana Jones ride opened in 2005. Both of these clues indicated that the California trip was in 1994. But that was weird because I was sure that I finished school in 1994.
Apparently not. I dug out my degree from SFU, which is dated 1993. Terrific. This means that I've had a glaring, significant error on my resume since I don't know when. I wonder what else I have wrong on my resume. I'd better check how I spelled my name.
Funny? NO. This all doesn't speak well of my copyediting and proofreading skills.
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