Shocker

I was in for a shocker today when I went to go visit my professor.
He said something that really bothers me.
Apparently there have been a FEW (more than a few) comments about me and the way that I treat people. In short, said Dr. Rabideau, I really need to work on my people skills.
What he sited was a habit of mine to be beyond blunt to the point of saying something that's just offensive. Part of it is totally dependant on the person. I'm not PC. I don't give people the bologna. I say what's on mind and I DON'T think that's a bad thing.
What I do need to work on is being... less abusive, I guess.
And I need to do it NOW because in a year, I'll be out looking for jobs and stuff.
*sighs*
I don't even really see it all the time. I know I have a habit of sticking my foot in my mouth, but not the point that a professor had to pull me aside and discuss it with me...
I dunno what to do. I can certainly try to keep a closer eye on how I speak and try not to be so... offensive.
I guess it worries me that a professor had to pull me aside and say something :/
I'd ask y'all to tell me when I'm being offensive, if y'all don't mind, but if it's a hassle, don't worry about it.

I have more to say, but I'm busy doing my project, so I'll write later.

Random thoughts and update.

So, there are other things afoot besides the shame of being pulled aside and told that my interpersonal skills suck. Not that that isn't taking the most of my thought processes.
I think I've decided to try to make it a personal habit to be just generally nicer to people and try to not speak everything that comes to mind before thinking it through. Hopefully it works. I don't want it to be said that my interpersonal skills are so terrible. :P

In other news, I was talking to my thesis advisor. We both agreed that I was slightly behind in my Thesis, but not to worry, because I've got most of 3 1/2 months to get my project going and I'm pretty sure I can use it effectively. Especially when I get my own PC.
I talked to Dr. Atkinson and suggested how useful it would be for me to get a PC. The fact is, it would be. ArcView GIS runs best on a PC. You can get Fortran compilers for a PC. And besides that, there are the, for me, typical productivity tools: Winamp, mostly (don't knock it. I work better with music in the background. More music than I carry on my little battery run iRock), but a working Internet Explorer and such for when ArcView is doing it's thing or the model is running.
It'll probably take about a month to get here (I'm expecting that Dr. Atkinson doesn't order it immediately and it'll take two or three weeks to get here.)
Until then, I'll work in the one trailer and bring CDs along. Because it does have a CD player with a headphone port (and no speakers). So I grabbed two Cake CDs and an 80s CD for tommorow.
The other good thing is I have a plan of action of things my professor really wants. Basically, he's going alone to Winnipeg and he wants to discuss the project. And he wants me to be able to get something done.. how to explain..
LOTOX (the bioaccumulation and toxics model) has a set of 36 (I think. Not absosmurfly certain.) "cells", each with it's own specific borders. We're going to take the 8 or 9 cells on the top surface and add them into GIS. Then try to write a script to average the velocity vectors intersecting the planes created by these lines over the entire depth of the lake.
Not easy, but it's something to work towards.

What else?
Can't think of anything new.
So I guess I'll post instead.