convert to metric

Because of the inherent bias in this society towards US standard measurements, I’ve often got to catch myself but I tend to use the metric system almost exclusively now unless I have to translate for someone completely unfamiliar. Nurses loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove me. :p

I now use metric measurements in most of my references and hybrid in some when having to explain it to people who don’t know.

Most of the phlebotomists and pharmacists I come across are the main ones who know the metric system the best while…frighteningly, a few of the others in the medical field are very unfamiliar. Considering most of the measurements…are in metric…it’s quite scary.

How are you going to give me a milliliter of anything if you don’t know what it is?

How many centimeters tall am I again?

How many kilos do I weigh? How do you exchange that into pounds?

0_o

Anywho, practice practice practice. As soon as I can get some tape, I’m going to be putting little reminders up all over the house so I can go even further towards using metric. Plus it will keep me out of the 36 degree weather we’re going to be having today. I baked enough yesterday. I was almost 100 kilos and managed to drop down to 96 on the heat alone. :-/

I’ve been using the metric mode of explaining things in my conversations. It’s normally quite confusing for others but I feel better for doing it and when I’m talking with friends who aren’t in the United States, they understand me a lot better.

I just wish they’d switch the shoe sizes over to a more uniform system. I wear size 9.5 (US) mens shoes (11 womens) but people keep hearing what they want to hear and will keep insisting on offering me size 9.5 (US) womens shoes even though my feet are obviously a good deal larger than the shoes.

In this goal, I’m slowly switching all my preferences both online and off over to metric. This morning, I ticked the ‘Prefers metric’ box for my OKCupid profile and then looked up my height to put it in properly. I’m evidently 1.55 meters tall. Heh, I thought I felt short before…

I’m in the United States and despite propaganda to the contrary was never actually taught the metric system even up to college level.

Since the authority has no designs to actually live up to the legal standard here, I’m doing it myself. Starting as of this week, I am using the metric system no matter how hard it is for me.

Now, I have to go and practice my conversion formulae.

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