"Oh...no, no, no honey, the steel foil hat doesn't go with that outfit, try the gold one."
Photogenic: Looks good in photographs; attractive
Memory: A construct of one's mind that allows them to recall information
a photogenic memory = a beautiful mind.
It is humorous because the assumption is that I mean to say "photographic memory". One with a photographic memory can recall visual information to which they've been exposed with great accuracy.
But when I tell this joke to friends or colleagues, I say "No no, a photogenic memory...I have a beautiful mind". There was a film with actor Russell Crowe called A Beautiful Mind in which he plays a brilliant professor who we discover late in the film has schizophrenia which has caused him no small amount of embarrassment and challenges in his life. According to diagnostic testing I had done, I have a high intelligence quotient along with autism, and it, too, has caused me embarrassment and challenges in my life.
So when I say I have a "beautiful mind", people remember that film and it occurs to them that I am saying I am intelligent (something friends and colleagues already know about me) but that my autism (something they also know about me) makes me a little weird and is a burden to me sometimes. It's just a bit of self-deprecating humor.
I might end up studying to get a math/physics endorsement when I start teaching in Oregon next year. The district I'll be teaching for has in their collective bargaining agreement that each teacher can request funds for certification exams, and they offer $1000 each year for postgraduate work, so why not? No district I've taught for in Texas offers anything like that.
I have been trying since January to get a teaching job in Portland (I live in Dallas) for the next academic year, and this week I was offered positions by two different school districts. This weekend, I have been working out which job to go with, I think I'mma go with the one that pays a little more, might be able to offer funds to offset relocation costs, and has less trafficky access to downtown and Vancouver (I have friends in North Portland and Vancouver.
So yeah...got that figured out; tomorrow I'll be looking for an apartment, taking my kids to Terry Black's for some world-class barbecue before Texas is forever in my rear-view mirror, doing some packing, and playing some THPS 1+2.
As someone with ASD, GAD, and MDD (all diagnosed if it matters), smart home devices are an essential service to me. I can quickly set redundant reminders to help me with personal routines, add stuff to my shopping and to-do lists, and quickly get my lights and music set to what I need them to be when I am experiencing an anxiety episode. I definitely understand that my data is good and harvested at this point, and I don't trust them to have done anything good with it. But these dots have made my life work since I bought my first one, and they've significantly reduced the anxiety I used to be riddled with.
That's a rock solid way to endanger your financial livelihood. I'd take a hard pass on that idea, my human.
I'm autistic and flub things up like that sometimes. I tell people that I have a photogenic memory. They'll often ask, "Don't you mean a photographic memory?" to which I reply "No, a photogenic memory. Yeah, I have a beautiful mind."
I have a core memory of getting into my mom's car on a rare day (which happened to be my birthday) that she picked me up instead of me taking the bus home. Sitting there on the passenger seat was a copy of Nintendo Power Issue #11 that my mom had grabbed out of the mailbox (she had just signed me and my brother up for a subscription, and this was the first issue to arrive). I didn't have Super Mario Bros. 3 and wouldn't get it for another year maybe, but to be able to read all about this game was just so thrilling for my 13-year-old self.
Yeah, that's not a great plot; one might even go as far as to say that it's so bad.
I remember when the N64 came out. I was an assistant manager, so when we got a couple of N64 rental units, I commandeered one of them that first day and played the fuck out of Mario and Wave Race.
"Nikki Haley says she'll vote for Trump.
The former South Carolina governor's remarks were her first on the matter since she dropped out of the presidential race. But she stopped short of formally endorsing her former rival." - npr.org
I only date women who do exactly what they want to do and not what society says they should do. As it happens, they generally don't wear makeup every day.