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The End of Tradition

Romantic diversification, that is ultimately what polyamory is about. There is not one person who can fulfill all our needs, there is not one person who can make us thoroughly happy. You can argue that a romantic partner should make us happy in one or two key areas and the other areas should be satisfied or bolstered by other types of relationships. But just what are the odds? It's 2020 and we've finally thrown out the idea of The One and have been educated of all the hard work that is needed to make a relationship work.  People are ever changing. Time is progressing. The era is evolving.  How, then, can people realistically pair up with someone for life? I find it fascinating that we keep looking up to the 5% (if even, wild guess) of truly happy, successful marriages and think that that is our future. People continue to marry with the expectation of lifelong marital bliss and compatibility. The truth is, those are unicorn unions.  Most marriages I know have ended u
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Sunken

I'm not sure how long I've had this chair elevated. But it is so, so, so much more comfortable now that I can place my feet on my floor. I wonder if someone else had adjusted it because why did I pump it so high?! I'll never remember. Only two months into isolation, I have experienced a whole developmental phase of growth and pain; love and tragedy. The tragedies in my life has always served an empathetic purpose. It's helped me understand other people on a really deep, nuanced level. Oh, I know why now, the edge of the table is cutting into my arm. It's not a nice feeling. For some reason, I'm still reading up on epilepsy and anti-seizure medication despite not needing to know anything about it anymore. I've become very curious about it after dating someone with epilepsy. I wondered if it affected intelligence because his cognitive abilities were extremely slow. From what I read, it does not. He just happened to have that condition and be at that me
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Quick Maths

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Rage. So much rage the functions unit caused. MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE CODING. PERHAPS PROGRAMMING IS TOO HARD FOR YOU. Stick to writing. I did come close to calling it quits. Instead, I asked around and my boyfriend spent over half an hour explaining the function. It was one little thing, I mixed up mathematical syntax with the JavaScript syntax.  This being the functions unit, I assumed coding would also follow the order of operations in math, which includes parentheses. const getTax = (itemCount) => {     return getSubTotal(itemCount) * 0.06 } For HOURS, I was trying to wrap my brain as to why in the getTax function getSubTotal was multiplying itemCount again. But no. No, no, no, no... that was the parameter. A parameter is a variable that will be given a value when called (the value is called an argument).  An essential piece of information that was left out of the curriculum is that mathematical calculations only occur with these four s
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Java Jabba Doooooo!

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"No," Imad said. I think my tagline is great. He's just jealous he didn't come up with it. *Disclaimer: I understand that Java is not JavaScript. But "JavaScript jabba doo!" does not have the same sound or flair/Flinstones-quality I seek.  This week was my first foray into a programming language. I was intimidated for the longest time as I had thought I needed to know HTML and CSS before coding a computer programming language. I bought a course on web development on Udemy at the end of 2016. It was great but also extensive and at the time, I had other priorities and did not finish the first assignment so I never moved on from the first unit. That's e-learning! A gamer told me about Codecademy when I was in first year. I don't play games but I've come into groups of seriously competitive gamers a couple times in my time at university. It took four years of stewing for me to make use of the resource (the well-developed free online curriculu
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