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I appear to have misplaced my hardware practical notes. What's even more infuriating is that I think I know where they are, but the mobile phone of the person who could confirm or deny that (and look in said location) has currently decided that it isn't talking to my phone. Not only does this mean that I can't effectively use this time and the Disc Maths lecture to do the planning for the prac, it also means I might have to actually work with someone on the practical itself (sharing their notes).
I do not play nicely with other people on tasks like these; because they're so regimented there isn't the need for bouncing ideas off, because I have no time to get to know the other person so I don't know whether getting on and doing one bit of it / telling them what to do next will annoy them or not, whether they'd rather I volunteered a method or whether they'd rather come up with it... I *can* work with other people, but I need more time, more structure and more ground-rules for it to work properly, and a task that actually requires two people rather than being far easier with one person, because the latter type of task just frustrates me if I have to work with someone because the communication overheads are so much greater than those for just getting on and doing it, and I tend to get bossy and just get on with it or withdrawn and unhelpful. *Especially* when I'm not exactly functioning on all cylinders anyhow.
I'm feeling surprisingly calm about it, actually; more of a 'sense of impending doom' than 'grr kill people', which is what I would have expected.
I *could* print myself off a fresh set of this week's notes from online once I get into town, and possibly work out what the relavant bits of the data book are to print too. That'll be hastening the demise of my free printer credit, though, and seems rather a waste unless the notes are actually lost, which I doubt. It's beginning to sound more and more like a solution, though.
I do not play nicely with other people on tasks like these; because they're so regimented there isn't the need for bouncing ideas off, because I have no time to get to know the other person so I don't know whether getting on and doing one bit of it / telling them what to do next will annoy them or not, whether they'd rather I volunteered a method or whether they'd rather come up with it... I *can* work with other people, but I need more time, more structure and more ground-rules for it to work properly, and a task that actually requires two people rather than being far easier with one person, because the latter type of task just frustrates me if I have to work with someone because the communication overheads are so much greater than those for just getting on and doing it, and I tend to get bossy and just get on with it or withdrawn and unhelpful. *Especially* when I'm not exactly functioning on all cylinders anyhow.
I'm feeling surprisingly calm about it, actually; more of a 'sense of impending doom' than 'grr kill people', which is what I would have expected.
I *could* print myself off a fresh set of this week's notes from online once I get into town, and possibly work out what the relavant bits of the data book are to print too. That'll be hastening the demise of my free printer credit, though, and seems rather a waste unless the notes are actually lost, which I doubt. It's beginning to sound more and more like a solution, though.
