Just One Thing! (11 July 2016)

[syntaxofthings]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Oof, that is major! Wow!

(I used to do telephone questionnaires on the phone goon end of things, so I deeply appreciate a well-crafted one.)

[fred_mouse]

I worked my way through much of uni doing market research - I think by the end of it I'd worked for 4 companies, and one boss!

It is really interesting, working on the second draft, where I start to fall into the cadences of the questionnaires that are probably as familiar to you as they are me. ["... you'll get people who will say 'oh, four or five times a day'. You need a follow up phrasing, such as 'which would be more common, four times a day, or five times a day.." or '..and here, you'll need to make the question more specific. Actually, you might be better to split this into two questions. Rather than 'does this happen when juggling or unicycling*', ask "does x happen when you are juggling? And what about when unicycling, does it happen then?]

* these are my new favourite euphemisms for anything we are researching.

[azurelunatic]

Oh yes. Immensely familiar.

And juggling + unicycling are the best euphemisms.

[fred_mouse]

"Is your baby juggling yet?" "At what age are you intending to introduce unicycling to your infant" "Do other people in your family unicycle?" "Are you a first in family juggler?"

... and so on. Keeps me well amused through middle of the night insomnia.