Old Diaries and Business Communication

As first reported in this diary, OD is dead. Well, at least until they recover from the hacker attack stuff. And even then I don’t know. I’m sticking it out for now though, if for no other reason than because Xanga annoys me.

Because of the dearth of other interesting OD diaries for me to read, I’ve actually been reading my own. I’ve also discovered that some of the earlier entries are really bad, which makes me fearful that in 6 months I’m going to come back and read this entry and also realize that it’s really bad. At the very least I think that I’ve learned that writing LIKE THIS, does not really achieve anything. A little perspective always helps in these matters.

Anyway, I’m basically just killing time until my Business Communication class at 12:30, and this diary is the medium for that. Were I to have scheduled the Business Communication class for 12:00, this diary would probably not exist. Which just goes to show you that every decision you make is important. I guess.

Anyway, the Business Communication class amuses me, because the central focus of the whole class seems to be “People are stupid and to communicate in business you must use small words and short sentences.” So, basically, you’re forced to go through 12+ years of training in school to create an exemplary vocabulary and strong, complex, sentence structure, only to have the next class tell you, “All of that was B.S. use basic, kindergarten, English.” It’s kinda a metaphor for life. You start off writing basic simple sentences in 2nd grade, you struggle through multiple years of education perfecting your writing style, and at the end they tell you all you really needed were the simple sentences anyway. Oh, the tangled webs we weave.

Anyway, I’m off to learn how to write sentences with less than 15 words, because after 15 words the average comprehension rate of the reader plummets, causing readers to basically have no clue at all of what the writer is talking about, and, in turn, making the writer’s point completely worthless. Not that I have a problem with that or anything. . .