So my internet's been a little weird over the last... idunno, since July or September. It wouldn't let me do certain things, like log into MSN messenger, or listen to kerrang radio. I didn't think much of it, since I could still access the internet.

...

=/ Yeah.

Don't know what's happened, but I can't access the internet on my computer anymore - except my vista sidebar still shows the weather, and the icon in the bottom right corner says that I'm still connected to the internet.



In other news, I've pretty much finished my Animal Behaviour essay. :D It's not up to my usual standards, but I'm still editing it and I still need to make up probably another hundred words. ... Shouldn't be that hard, right?

After that, I guess I should try filling out the ethics form and start doing the Lifespan Development essay. *grumble*

So.... Showed lecturers my project proposal today.

They said I can't do it.

I need to think of a new topic (one connected with psychology), find references (and they should be from a psychological point of view), and write up a new proposal.

By tomorrow, 4pm.

I am so screwed it's not even funny. I know it's for five percent, but I should know what I'm doing by now, and I've got other coursework to go prepare for!

DDDD:

I don't know how to make the tangent topic project psychological (and neither does the lecturer who gave me the idea).

So my cold's pretty much completely clear up now. :) Yey! Sniffles is definitely down, and my throat doesn't feel that itchy.

Apart from the fact that there's blood on the tissue when I blow my nose. O__o

My cold: the good thing is that it didn't get worse (yey, because the topic that I want to do for Lifespan Development was being covered yesterday), the small fever went down - but I did develop a heck of a lotta sniffles and my throat get pretty rough today. (Ahaha. My Lifespan Development lecturer didn't understand me when I said 'aggression', which is the topic I wanna do. Also sounded like I was crying a couple of times.) They both cleared up by the time I got home. :) So it could be completely gone by tomorrow.


( Honours Project )

... Nuts.

The reply I got from the person I sent my project proposal was 'I am sorry but I do not see a psychology project here. It looks very general and needs to have some relevance to an aspect of psychology.' Go contact other people to see how to make it into a psychological study.

Suuuucks. DDD: Creative writing. Writing is a part of psychology, blaaah. We covered it two years ago.


Aaaand my cold seems to have gotten a little worse. -____-;; Just hope it doesn't get even more worse tomorrow.

So I sent my project proposal on Wednesday, and we were told that, at the latest, we'd get comments back on it by Friday. Um. Still haven't got anything back yet. =/


I have the beginnings of a cooooold. DDD: Ugh. Sucks so bad. I really hope it doesn't get worse, but I have a feeling that it will. DDD:


I wanna go back to tamingthemuse to get me at least writing something for Fullmetal Ninja (and I've had the latest chapter done for a while, just not re-betaed) but if I'm having problems writing five-hundred words every two weeks for halfprince_fics, I'd say it'd be worse if I had to write the same amount in one. Not to mention, I want to keep halfprince_fics at least some sort of semblance of active.

Saying that, I've begun to write a Natsume Yuujinchou/ Bleach crossover. ^ ^ It could easily become a multichaptered fic, but hopefully it'll stay a one-shot. No idea how long it'll be. Probably under a thousand words.

I should probably type up and post the Hand x Red/.hack crossover too, shouldn't I?

( Animal Behaviour )


( Honours Project )


October is going to be sooo hectic.

So still talking with R, the guy with the Ph.D in creativity. He does like the idea of seeing how well creative writing can be used to gather qualitiative data, but I have to be absolutely certain that no-one else has done it before.

...

From my research, it's a yeah, no-one else has done it. But this is from my research, and now I'm paranoid of carrying this on, and then finding out later that no, this isn't original. =/ Gaaaaah.

( 1/2 Prince chapter 36! )

Awww. Finished again.

In case you haven't seen them, someone found a 1/2 Prince artbook by a different artist. Check them out. Wiiiiiings~~ And everything else. *looks at the last one* Bwahaha. Lolidragon took that one!

So had a talk with my maybe!supervisor.

( Cut )


( Book stuff )


( Animal Behaviour )

Had a nine o'clock start - and finished at six. And then had volunteering until eight.

The class at nine was about the honours project, where I was given another couple of ideas, told of another person I could have as a supervisor, or just a person I could talk to about my project. Also, I realised that, um, some of the topics that I want to do may as well just be a survey, and not actually be researching something, or they don't really have a basis in psychology. Um. Nuts. And I'm meeting with my maybe!supervisor tomorrow.

Had my first AiAB lecture - the lecturer is still as zany as she was two years ago, and the class doesn't seem too bad (but this was just the introduction). There's only six psychology students in this module.

As for the first Psychology of Lifespan Development lecture... Well, the site where we get the lecture notes was down for the lecturer, so she couldn't put anything up until three, where I was still moving in between classes. Bleeeh. So she was moving at a pace where she assumes people don't have to write as much.

And the coursework for her is to do a 2,500 word literature review. =/ It's for the week in between sending in the ethical approval form before and the critical bibliography after for honours project.

DDD: Aaaaah~~ Time!!

So I have an honours project to do this year. As an elective, I've taken Advances in Animal Behaviour. I've had a friend point out to me that there's a timeable clash - the honours project tutorial overlaps with the AiAB lecture.

I e-mailed the lecturer to tell her this, kind of going 'nooooo' because the other tutorial is on a Thursday, and it would be my only class of the day. I got a reply back from her saying 'To accommodate the students who want to take Advances in Animal Behaviour, I am running a separate lecture for the Honours Project in [room number] at 1500-1600' and that she '[knows] that the Advances in Animal Behaviour class does not finish until 1500 but I will wait until all of the students arrive to start the 'lecture''. Sounds good, doesn't it?

They're in different campuses. DD:

At least they're pretty close to each other, only about fifteen minutes by bus.

More stuff about the honours project.

I looked at the folder I'd started last year for this. D: I'd saved a large number of articles, and even noted down a few ideas [The effect writing has on health (does it stress you, make you feel relaxed?), The difference between a novice, non-writer or an expert, Difficulties with creative writing]. Apart from maybe the health one, I don't want to do them. =P

Also been looking at my honours project tag - I'm soooo glad I'd put down what books to look at. Unfortunately, I can only find one of them on amazon (for over twenty pounds) but I did find one called 'Psychology of Creative Writing'. :D I wants iiiiit. Also, over twenty pounds but still...

First offical week of uni: done. @___@

Not that I've done much.

( Uni stuff )

I went to sleep at eight yesterday, and didn't wake up until half-five; a little bit longer than how I usually sleep. =/ Dunno, just been feeling sleepy over the last couple of days.


... Wow. Lookit all them commas.

EDIT: Ahaha. Ahahahaha~~~ So, I just said that 'fanfiction' doesn't exactly turn up a lot of results, right? Reading through one article, they were using 'fan fiction'. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that spelling. Put it in.

6409 results.

omg. OMG. *glee* So, much, freakin' glee.

Obviously, a lot of these are going to be completely useless and not about fanfics but still! OMG.

:D New chapter of the 1/2 Prince novel's come out!

( Volume 2, chapter 4 )


So that's us onto the... twelfth chapter in the manga.

Eee! Lurker day again. :)

... Did I get it in March? I don't think I did. ^ ^;;

( Half Prince 35! )

:( Awww. Finished.

@___@ I'm working on three hours sleep right now. The time I woke up? Quarter to three. *headdesk* Trying to get back to sleep didn't work...

So, back to the strange sleep patterns again. Gaaaaah.


( Half Prince novel, rest of chapter 3, volume 2 )

I... honestly have no idea how much I can take. How can you top the last chapter?

Also, *squee* just because 1/2 Prince is now ranked 35 30 (it was 35, like, yesterday!) in OneManga - when I first started reading this, it was somewhere like 244 or something.

Also also, I really wish I'd taken not of how many comments and views were on this video (what was referenced in the last chapter) because I'm fairly sure there was no comments and about 2-4,000 views, or 500.

Now there's over 11,000. Insane.


( 1/2 Prince 34! )

:( That's the sixth volume finished. How long until the next volume comes out?