Neurosis for Dummies

Tracy · 10-08-2007, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Becky

Hey Tracy! How are are you doing?? how are you enjoying being 20, now that you've been 20 for about a month?

Hi Becky! I've been okay... swamped by work, but what else is new? I'm trying to figure out a way to graduate on time, but I'm not sure it's worth it. Time will tell, though. I got a late start to an important and difficult assignment in one of my courses, and if it goes poorly, I'll probably drop the course and retake it next year. As it stands, I'll have to take a summer course and have one semester with six courses, so if I have any more catching up to do, I'd have to be insane to keep trying to cram it into three years. One semester is doable - I'm taking my biology courses at another university, and my grades aren't counted so all I need to do is pass - but not two.

As for being 20, I don't feel so ancient anymore. I do feel more "settled," but I'm not sure that has anything to do with that. Actually, I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, seeing as nothing's really changed in my life in the past year.

**Becky** · 10-08-2007, 09:01 AM

school can be rough like that! deffinatlly don't stress yourself just to graduate "on time". Is it normal for people there to only take 3 years? here the typtical time is 4 years.

Tracy · 10-08-2007, 10:30 AM

Only in Quebec. We finish high school at grade eleven and then do two years of preuniversity studies (if we so choose) at CÉGEP. So we have an extra year before university, which usually covers general education-type courses. Four years isn't unheard of, but it's usually only when there are extenuating circumstances, such as being a parent.

bobthecockroach · 10-09-2007, 03:51 AM

COFFEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tracy · 10-09-2007, 06:16 AM

YES!

My coffee pot was clean this morning. It made my heart glad.

bobthecockroach · 10-09-2007, 06:18 AM

AH! There is a Tracy... but why is she not on Google chat?

Tracy · 10-09-2007, 06:33 AM

It was being slow.

I was looking for an old e-mail to confirm an appointment time, and it took about five minutes for it to load.

bobthecockroach · 10-09-2007, 06:34 AM

Bad Google! *hits it with a stick*

Tracy · 10-25-2007, 10:44 PM

Have I ever mentioned how much I love my cat?

I finally found a suitable scratching post for her today - most posts sold in pet stores are too short and unsteady for a cat to get in a good scratch - and when I brought it home (I'm at my parents' for reading week), my dad went on a long rant about how I had just blown $30 and was being foolish. No sooner had he said this than Cattou strolled up to the scratching post and proceeded to sharpen her claws, as if on cue. Love. Her. I hope this will keep her off the couch, although it doesn't really matter because I keep her claws trimmed and our couch is ugly, besides. But in the event I ever own a nice couch... that would be a very good thing.

I'm in the middle of midterms. I keep getting in the habit of not posting here. I'm not sure why, because I still browse quite frequently. Meh. Such is life. Now back to studying. I'm starting to freak out about grad school and that's not a good thing.

bobthecockroach · 10-26-2007, 07:06 AM

Yay for cats... especially Cattou.

Tracy · 10-26-2007, 07:37 AM

Indeed.

Not yay for long Powerpoint presentations and much note-taking. My right hand is going to die today.

bobthecockroach · 10-26-2007, 07:41 AM

Ah yes. Right hand death is not so fun.

Tracy · 10-26-2007, 09:14 PM

No. Neither is cleaning the carrier after the aforemented beloved kitty couldn't control her bladder on a 20-minute ride to the vet.

I'm really behind on material for my last two midterms (psychopathology and models of intervention). I'm more worried about models of intervention, because it involves more memorisation. But in any event, I really need to catch up, and so won't be online from now until I'm done (so until Tuesday night). Not that it makes much of a change since I post so infrequently, but... yes. Feel free to mourn my absence.

passinthru · 10-26-2007, 09:42 PM

*mourns*

midterms suck. I've got 5 this semester.

Tracy · 11-24-2007, 06:25 PM

Wow, I had a reply in here and didn't know. My apologies! I think that must have been the first time I said I was going to be away from CGR to study, and then actually stuck to it.

Not much has changed. My midterm grades turned out to be much better than I expected, so now it's just a matter of keeping it up. I'm dreading the holidays, though. Right now, it isn't so bad, since I mostly make gifts and often actually doing so is relaxing, but I don't know what I'll do when the actual time comes. I really don't want to stay at my parents' place. I only have a limited time to rest between semesters, and I need that, and I know I can't rest there. I would just show up for the 24th-25th, but I have a cat to worry about, so it isn't that simple and I might be required to stay longer. I'm not sure what I'll do to pass the time if I go there.

I'm afraid my life really is as boring as it sounds. I'm currently working on a paper for Models of Intervention in Psychology where I pretty much have to describe my own "model" (theory and intervention alike). Interesting stuff, but of course I'm in way over my head.