[passinthru]

Ugh, I'm sorry Tracy - staying up all night with a paper sucks...being sick with the flu is never an excuse for extra sleep unless you're on vacation. (and then it just plain sucks to be ill on vacation).

Yes, I'm blathering - but my HR group work is done and the case study is started. and I only had to stay up all night to do it. no sleep is so much fun

[Kati]

Ew. *gives coffee*

Flu bad. Sleep good. Poor Tracy.

(This is as coherent as I get right now, sorry. )

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by passinthru

Ugh, I'm sorry Tracy - staying up all night with a paper sucks...being sick with the flu is never an excuse for extra sleep unless you're on vacation. (and then it just plain sucks to be ill on vacation).

Yes, I'm blathering - but my HR group work is done and the case study is started. and I only had to stay up all night to do it. no sleep is so much fun

Indeed it isn't. I'm not really sure what's going on, though. I've been sick for a good three weeks now. There have been days where it's not that bad, but as soon as I lose a bit of sleep, it comes back full force.

No sleep does indeed suck. I hope the rest of the end of semester period has been kinder to you. When do/did you finish?

Originally Posted by Kati

Ew. *gives coffee*

Flu bad. Sleep good. Poor Tracy.

(This is as coherent as I get right now, sorry. )

You are absolutely allowed to not be coherent right now.

[passinthru]

Originally Posted by Tracy

Indeed it isn't. I'm not really sure what's going on, though. I've been sick for a good three weeks now. There have been days where it's not that bad, but as soon as I lose a bit of sleep, it comes back full force.

That is yucky. Get your sleep.

No sleep does indeed suck. I hope the rest of the end of semester period has been kinder to you. When do/did you finish?

Friday is the last day of class. One week of exams and I am done April 27th. I can hardly wait. What about you?

[Tracy]

I have an exam on Monday (psychophysiology) and another on Thursday (quantitative methods).

[bobthecockroach]

Originally Posted by Tracy

I have an exam on Monday (psychophysiology) and another on Thursday (quantitative methods).

Lucky.

Er... or not.

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

Lucky.

Er... or not.

At least this psychophysiology exam is more interesting. Emotions and memory are a wee bit more relevant to the rest of my studies than vision and the motor system. Though I don't like reading about the experiments done on kitties.

Quantitative methods makes me happy because it's math, but not truly disgusting stuff like I did in CÉGEP. Down with the gamma distribution!

[bobthecockroach]

w00t! Maths can be funs.

[Tracy]

No.

[Tracy]

One exam left. Let me just say that brains are for chumps. And my professor is a special case...
"Studies have shown that a combination of banana and Nutella is harmful to monkeys." (True/False)
He did in fact tell an anecdote about a friend who had the fright of his life when he fed such a combination to a monkey while working as a lab assistant... but an anecdote does not a study make. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if he graded it either way. So very, very glad the course is over.

So after this I have my exam in Quantitative Methods on Thursday, and then I'm done until... well, the summer semester. I'm trying to track down a supervisor for a project I want to do (for credit) next year, and may be in luck depending on my university's standards.

Well, I'm out of words. I've been browsing but too tired to type coherently. And now I must do dishes.

[bobthecockroach]

After the dishes... you should get online.

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

After the dishes... you should get online.

Given how long I've let the dishes slide, that would keep me offline for days, you know.

I just found out that my application for a summer job hasn't been replied to because they can't find it on their system, despite the fact that I received a confirmation letter. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

In other news, I am trying to convince my cat to eat wet food to get a bit more moisture in her diet and stretch out her current bag of kibble until I'm reassured the problems the company ran into (tainted ingredients) have been resolved. It isn't working very well.

I don't know how I managed to sleep so much last night. I need to find a more effective alarm.

[Tracy]

Woot. So the semester is over and I do, in fact, have a job. Not looking forward to spending ridiculous hours in a warehouse for the summer, but it pays for rent, food... all that nice, essential stuff. I'm still waiting to figure out whether I can find a supervisor for a research project I want to do this summer/next year. I may have found someone, but need to wait for her reply.

I am not happy with myself over my stats exam, though. I couldn't bring myself to concentrate very much before the exam, so my studying was pretty ineffective and it showed. Hopefully it won't affect my mark, though.

Cat is still being stubborn on the food front. She'll eat out of my hand but not from the bowl. I'll try heating it up as soon as I have a container to heat it up in. Must do dishes. Argh.

Off to the university psych conference. I am so not awake enough to listen to people talk all day, but it should be interesting.

[Tracy]

It's been a lazy couple of days since the end of semester. I start work back at my parents' place in mid-May, and most of my friends here are gone for the summer, so I have nothing to do but clean, pack, and work on gifts for friends (birthday and graduation) as well as things for the new apartment.

Now that the weather's been better, I've been starting to take advantage of the scenery here. I've been going jogging in the mornings - my endurance is pathetic - and hope to get in a lot of walking as well now that it's no longer raining.

The psych conference was all sorts of interesting. Two of the presentations I saw dealt with attachment, one of my principal interests, and one of those went into a bit more detail on the use of one of the theories I'm particularly interested in in the treatment of personality disorders. I also found myself thinking that it would be cool to do my (hypothetical future) internship at the personality disorders clinic. The same thing happened when we had a suicide prevention workshop given by a social worker at the local crisis centre. It's a bit frustrated to have these ideas but be so far away from actually doing anything. I do hope to get in some volunteer work next year, now that I've adapted to university.

Nothing much else to say. I'm disappointed with my grades so far, but I can't say I'm surprised. I'm hoping to catch up on credits over the summer so I can retake some of those courses, but I don't know if I'll succeed.

[Tracy]

I'm still waiting for the last of my grades to come in. I did much better in adolescent psychology than I expected to. Actually, I suspect the marks haven't been moderated yet, or perhaps there was a clerical error. What I have now requires that the class average be acceptably low and that I got at least 96% on the exam... it's possible, but unlikely.

I'm very apprehensive about the 12 weeks I will be spending at my parents' this summer while I work. It'll allow me to be financially independent for the next two years without having to work full time as I study (in my program, I don't have the option of studying part-time if I want to go on to graduate school) - I really admire those who can pull it off, but I can't handle it - but I know after a few weeks in that environment it'll be hard to keep that in perspective. At least I'll be working long hours and will be out of the house a lot. But then I have to worry about my cat...

Nothing else has been going on, really. I feel a bit isolated because all of my friends here have gone away from the summer. I guess the positive side of this is that it'll make returning to my parents' more bearable, in that I'll get to see a lot of people I miss.

I'm starting to pack for the move to a larger apartment this July. Having a roommate should be interesting. Even in terms of decoration, really - let me just say that she is a little more fond of cartoon characters than I am. Not to mention the adjustment to moving out. We're going to have to discuss house rules fairly shortly. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to that conversation. She's either lived with her parents, where there was little respect on either end, or as a guest in someone's house, so I'm not sure how she'd adapt to living in a place that was her own but having to respect the others there. It'll be nice to not live alone, but I know these things can ruin friendships if not handled correctly.