| Lit search for my ass I bet you can't find it |
[17 Nov 2008|09:48pm] |
All I have done all semester is read 'scholarly articles'. My whole life consists of lit-searching and printing and highlighting and summarizing eleventy billion pages of experiments. I really didn't need this reminder of why I am not going to be a research psychologist, thanks.
Things I do not care to read about:
Visual Agnosia!!!!!!!!!
Capgra's Syndrome
Effects of social anxiety disorder on the formation of self during the teen years (ok maybe I do care about that)
Development of storytelling schemas
Guess which one I hate the most. Hint: it's Visual Agnosia. Although agnosia is a fun word to say.
7 more days of the semester! (and 7 more papers).
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| Sales sales everywhere |
[11 Nov 2008|12:21am] |
Godddamn Victoria's Secret and their very expensive (not to be confused with very sexy) shipping and handling charges!
I was all excited to use a 25% off coupon and buy the expensive bra I want but no0o0o once you add on the shipping charges I'd have only saved $5. Fuck that that's not a deal.
HAPPY 21 MINUTES INTO BIRTHDAY JENN!
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| Tis the season |
[10 Nov 2008|03:12am] |
YESSSSSSS someone on LJ sent me a 30% off coupon for Old Navy and Gap for this weekend, how conveeeeeeeeeeniant that Jenny and I are going Christmas shopping Saturday. With this coupon I believe I will be going Brooke and Jenn shopping.
Between this and Sephora friends&family sale and Erin getting me to sign up on E-bates, I'm effed. But saving lots of money? haha
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| My taste in music is surely one of my best qualities |
[09 Nov 2008|02:00am] |
I can't wait to rock out to the music of a (potentially homosexual) 17 year old with a bunch of 14 year olds on Tuesday! No seriously hahha nothing better go wrong that day.
Yeah even I respect myself a lot less for listening to this, it's cool.
I can't believe this show's sold out. I'm sure HelloGoodbye can't believe it either. Ohhhhhhhh zing.
His TBS cover is fucking SIQ too, was he even born when this song came out? Oh he was in 4th grade, loves it.
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| Christmas, again |
[06 Nov 2008|10:19pm] |
I can't wait to buy this!!!
Hallmark 2008 lightup gingerbread house decoration, the lights blink!! And it will be like our lightup Halloween house!
Christmas commercials on TV have become more and more frequent, and Oldies 103 is already playing Christmas music 24/7 now hahahah so good!
I have 7 papers and 1 presentation due in the next 4 weeks. Over Thanksgiving 'break' I literally have to write a paper a day. I need to do A LOT of homework this weekend (unlike last weekend). And I need to make myself get all this done so I can enjoy pre-gaming for Christmas. Can't wait to Christmas shopppppppppp.
I <3 to buy you Christmas gifts.
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| NeverShoutAwesome |
[05 Nov 2008|12:50am] |
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Jared is 2 for 2 today with away messages:
Auto response from Dubz Tee Eff: If I lose my right to own a gun, hunt and snowmobile I'm gonna be pissed. It's classic because its true and sarcastic all at once LOL
Andddd I can't wait to see NeverShoutNever a week from tonight!! (and happy birthday Jenny) Just downloaded the 2 new songs, Im in love. Which reminds me I need to get to Hot Topic and buy the EP giftpack because the 15 year old in me is still alive and well, as far as music goes.
And just as proof that Christofer Drew can really do no wrong, check out his mock hardcore band hahahhahahahha sounds like everything I listened to when I was 15 combined into one big clusterfuck of awesome:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=328629212
Someoneeeeeeee has a new myspace song coming, laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes
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| VD Venereal Disease |
[04 Nov 2008|04:05pm] |
As sick as I am of hearing anything that has to do with the E word and the V word, it's fun to predict...
Who do YOU THINK is going to win?
Not who you want to win, but really, all things considered objectively, who do you think will be the president? And do you think it will be a close race or no?
I'm proud to say that I did not vote, and that is the right choice for ME.
A) I don't believe in voting for the lesser of 2 evils, that's foolish
B) My vote does NOT count, only the big guys' votes do
C) As Jared's away message so nicely states "No matter who wins there's no way our country's going to get a quick fix"
I predict Obama, but I don't really care either way. I just feel like all the buzz is about Obama, everyone I have encountered is for Obama, but then again I live in MA so duh. I'll tell you what got real old today was hearing EVERY single one of my professors doing the whole 'Now I shouldn't let you know my political views BUT HINT HINT HINT IM A HUGE ASS DEMOCRAT OBVIOUSLY HINT HINT!' I myself lean more towards democrat, but STILL it's so childish the little game that everyyyyyyyy teacher and professor I've ever had plays on election day. And then there's Dr. Reichenthal telling us that republicans will be the downfall of civilization and if we ever want to have jobs as mental health clinicians there is no choice for us other than to vote democrat.
I hate politics almost as much as I hate art, just answer my question.
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| Senioritis |
[02 Nov 2008|01:27am] |
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Do you ever do this?
At the beginning of a 'homework sesh' I say "Im gonna get ________, _________, and ______ done before I go to bed/quit for the day. And then other things distract me... talking to Ashlee, brushing the cats, lurking on myspace, writing this livejournal entry... and I break the tasks down into subtasks, which I guess is helpful overall, but really just gives me an excuse not to complete the tasks when I said I would.
Today's goal was to finish that paper. Instead I decided to re-read the article I am writing the paper on and take extensive notes on it, and I will write the ACTUAL paper TOMORROW. See, is this just me doing helpful preparatory steps or is this me procrastinating and justifying not writing the paper TODAY? The world may never knowwwww
Oh well at least daylight savings time allowed me to factor in another hour of procrastinating! See, its only 1230 AM, thats early as far as me and homework goes!
Tomorrow is Andrew's family birthday partyyyyy.
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| The cat in the heat |
[01 Nov 2008|01:51am] |
A million more tomorrow (which BTW is the first day of the Christmas season!)
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| Follow your dreams to unemployment, thanks Mr. Patrick |
[28 Oct 2008|03:50pm] |
Yup, if I could go back and do it all again, would have been a business major. That's a big affirmative.
But no, I had to 'follow my dreams' and pick an interesting career instead of a practical one.
Don't follow your dreams if they include a bachelor's in science/liberal arts degree.
So funny, the psych department invited me today to be a 'mentor' to freshman psych majors mapping out their plan of study towards being a clinician. Here's a map for all freshman psych majors:
And yes, all this despite the big/good news I have that I still don't feel like posting about yet.
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| AWFUL |
[28 Oct 2008|01:54am] |
The whole Jennifer Hudson situation makes me REALLY upset.
I feel like it's one of the worst things I've ever heard for some reason,
because like, they took out her whole family, that's incomprehensible to me.
Even in the spousal abuse trainings I just finished, the thing that bothered me the most was the situations where someone has a problem with you, so they threaten/take it out on your family. That's 10 times worse than them threatening you. I'm sure 95% of people feel the same way I do: do what you want to me but don't TOUCH my loved ones. That's so much worse.
Losing your mother is probably the worst thing most people will experience in their life, and she has to deal with it coupled with 2 other deaths all at the same time and all from unnatural unjust causes?
It's awful for her, awful for the rest of the family who must feel SO unsafe and threatened, awful for the victims because what the HELL did a 9 year old kid do to deserve that? If someone killed me because they didn't like my aunt, that's fucked.
Did she even DO anything to the murderer? WTF is this person thinking, revenge or attention?
Fuck him either way, life sentence and tortured in jail for killing a child, please and thank you.
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| Saw Day! |
[24 Oct 2008|11:31pm] |
Saw V has the best ending I've ever seen since Tobin Bell rips his face off and says 'Game Over' in Saw I!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH so pleased and can't WAIT for next October!!!!!!!!
Anyone (every movie critic) who hates Saw movies seriously is too fucking retarded to appreciate them. GENIUS movies, no other franchise has connected things this intricately, ever. Everything is pre planned and methodical and done knowing full well what it's going to implicate 3 movies down the line.
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[21 Oct 2008|12:24pm] |
Past 24 hours have been paricularly horrible.
I would rather be anywhere than school right now.
I feel a nervous breakdown coming on.
This fucking project in psych of intelligence is going to take up so much goddamn time that I don't have.
Who the fuck seriously assigns group projects to seniors in college who all live in different towns and have different school/work/internship schedules and then also has the project involve extensive FILMING. Are you serious?? Is this 6th grade??
Kill me.
Also where the fuck was my mother today with all my stuff? Now I have no phone, no planner (which prevents me from doing like 12 different things), no homework to turn in later in class. This is a longggg story not even worth getting into.
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| H A Double L O |
[20 Oct 2008|12:47am] |
I have a week and a half to get myself out of the stressed mood and into the halloween mood... Plan to do this mainly through movie watching, tell me your favorite Halloween movies.
My list so far is:
HOCUS POCUS
Children of the Corn
All Rob Zombie movies (David, call me)
Don't recommend anything Tim Burton, that's queer.
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| Fuck |
[16 Oct 2008|03:27am] |
Oh my god I honestly had NO idea what time it was, havent looked at the clock all night, been studying...
It's 3:45 and I have to be up at 6.
This was an accidental almost-all nighter. Finishing up studying and taking a 2 hour nap I guess.
I hope I'm on one of those adrenaline rushes tomorrow.
CREPES TOMORROW. My mouth is watering at the thought of nutella.
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| The (Captain) Crunch Is On |
[14 Oct 2008|12:50am] |
This week is key.
This entry is for my own sanity, I like seeing things written out.
Before I sleep tonight:
-1 page article comparison for lab
-READ A GRE CHAPTER OR 2, NOT A TRUE CRIME BOOK
Tuesday:
-Sleep in, I am sick, so sleep is essential, no matter how many things I need to be doing
-Somehow pull together a writeup for lab from those 2 articles that may as well be written in hieroglyphics
-Find 2 more preliminary examples for lab (wiki wiki wahhhhh)
-Study for neurology midterm, like crazy
-TRY and work on GRE book/studying, if time <---didnt do this
-Early to bed so I can be early to rise? (Tape SVU) <---- didnt do this either, watched SVU
Wednesday:
-Study for neurology midterm
-Lab 1-3
-Work at TLP 3-8 (bring study notes here)
-CRAM FOR NEUROLOGY MIDTERM ALL NIGHT
Thursday:
-Neurology Midterm
-Class 9-12
-Probably need a nap after the all-nighter (1-3)
-Finish reading GRE book
-Take a GRE practice test (2.5 hrs)
-Well deserved date night, Mac and Crepes (7-9) (will watch The Office online over the weekend)
-Also Front-Line the Chief
Friday:
-STUDY ALLLLLLLLLL GRE NOTES ALLLLLLLLL DAY
-Take 3rd practice test (2.5 hrs)
-Review all questions I got wrong on practice tests
-DO NOT go out
-DO NOT pull an all nighter
Saturday:
-GREs 9-1
-Smoke a whole bunch of crack
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| Hmmmmmm |
[13 Oct 2008|01:01am] |
Today when I was getting dressed I noticed
A) A VIBRANT red splotch on my elbow. It's not itchy, it doesn't hurt, and it has no central bump like a bugbite or an ingrown hair or something. The skins not raised, its just BRIGHT red.
B) A small blistery thing on the shoulder of the same arm that seriously looks like I've been BRANDED. There's a chunk of skin missing, in a weird lil shape, and then the skins like peeling back a bit around it.
What the hell is wrong with me?
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| SIQ! |
[08 Oct 2008|11:50pm] |
Nevermind, NEVERMIND! I found my school's notorious EASY A course, MEDITATION, only they changed the name of the course so I wouldn't be able to find it, 'Contemplation and Compassion'.
HELLO 8 AM MEDITATION (students must purchase a meditation pillow for this course)
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| What is Febtober |
[07 Oct 2008|10:55pm] |
Got bored, did this to my planner:
What else can I do with this adorable ribbon besides make a bracelet, put it in my hair, or try and wrestle it onto the cats' necks?
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| This says a lot about who I am |
[07 Oct 2008|05:13pm] |
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S0o0o making my schedule for my final semester of college.
It's such a science, there are so many different strategies to approach this with.
The overall trend here is that my school SUCKS as far as offering classes go. We are poor poor poor and understaffed. AKA they have no one to teach Adolescent Psych, Psych Testing, Sensation and Perception or Criminal Psych. So I am having a Psych-free final semester because I have taken all the classes the departments offers.
Soo0o0 since I have to select 3 classes (my internship counts as the 4th) that are in no way related to anything I'm doing in life, how do I approach this?
I know the majority of people would say to take other areas that I think might interest me, or things I've never tried before. Well unfortunately Senioritis (which I prefer to call 'fuck you Im graduating') has kicked in as far as classes go, and my energy is now totally focused on finding a clinical job post-grad, acing GREs, and visiting/interviewing PsyD programs. If the classes I'm taking aren't Psych ones, I don't care about their content. What I care about is my GPA, thus I am seeking out EASY-As, and classes that only meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My desire to sleep late, spend as little time as possible on campus, and do minimal amounts of non-psych related busy-work all outweigh my desire to 'explore something new'. Does my logic make sense? I know it makes me sound slacktastic, but I have (some) valid reasoning behind it.
So first step was narrowing it down to general subjects I can STAND, those being English, Sociology, Religion, Education, and Women's Studies.
Then we face issues like this: as much as taking Alternative Criminal Justice with a professor who is described as 'interesting, passionate, easy, and hilarious' sounds great, is it worth having to come to campus for a measly hour on Mondays and Wednesdays when I otherwise wouldn't have to?
It's either do that and suck it up and have class 4 days a week, or I dive into the unknown, taking Social Work with a new professor, at the dreaded 8AM on Tues/Thurs, but allowing me to have the coveted '2 day a week' schedule.
Picking that last class is going to throw me for a loop, so far I've got:
Tuesday+Thursday:
11-1215 Judao-Christian Relationships
1230-145 Sex and Gender Studies (which is apparently different from Gender and Society which I already took?)
2-315 Internship Meetings
What do I doooooooo? Im leaning towards take Social Work, go for the first week to see if I like the professor/class, and if I don't, switch into Alternative Criminal Justice. Thoughts?
PS I want to be back at Knowledge Beginnings, ASAP.
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