Losing my mind
Yes, I'm slowly but surely losing my mind.
I was suprised to realize that after three days of staying at home (and three more holidays taken for next week), I have actually spent most of those days going through the project I'm working on for my uni degree. Needless to say I started off being totally clueless, now I seem to be just a wee bit clued in but not enough to feel confident that I'll manage easily.
Either way - stumbling block number one has already arrived: Database normalization.
I know 99% of you won't even know that it exists, even less what it is. But I'm going crazy here about because I had grasped the concept of it last year (just barely, mind you) and now I can't by the life of me get back to understanding it. And what's worse is that I have spent this entire bloody Sunday trying to figure it out and I'm still at a loss. May I add, this is something that should've been done in less than 20 minutes. So, as a conclusion, I'm losing my mind.
I am going to have to find a way to normalize that stupid database (all it has is about 15 fields, for heaven's sake! How har can that be???) because if that's not done, I can't do anything else as it all build up on this!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
That said - I'm seriously suprised at myself. I seem to have found some sort of discipline in me that I never knew existed. I wake up in the morning and get down to business straightaway. I wonder how long I can keep it up.
Suffice it to say, I've got the new Expansion Pack for Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 called "Soaked". If nothing else, my breaks are fun ;-)
posted by Maky at 7:11 PM
4 Comments:
Hi Sis,
I know how you feel. When i started off with flash, i spent three whole days doing something, that would normally take about 2 hours... very frustrating to know that the solution must be very easy but to not be able to find that solution...
hang on in there :-D the feeling after you´ve made it makes up for the stress ;-D
ally
Hi,
Keep at it!! The reward when it "clicks" and it all starts to make sence will make up for the frustration you feel now. Be honest Maky: Better focus on PHP than those SB tapes (which are close to BS tapes anyway...;)
Take care,
Kaj
Kaj - you make me laugh, thanks for that! :-)
As for this ever "clicking" - I doubt it will ever happen but I'll trust your faith in me ;-)
Konfuzius says: The larger the buzz word, the simpler the underlaying principle.
Read: Once you 'get it', you'll see that it is something that every sane person (with more than two braincells) would do. Only cast in a ruleset and hidden behind said buzzwords for those who need it to feel important...
FWIW, you *do* use it already. All day long. You just need to find out ;o)
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