So, I've just typed just over three thousand words in the last hour-and-a-half. And that's me done my first transcription for my honours project. :DD It averaged out about six minutes takes about half-an-hour to transcibe. Considering how long I took the last time, this is sooo much faster. It took me six hours to transcribe forty minutes, omg. I haven't done the final run-through, to make sure that the transciption's exactly right yet, but that should only take about half-an-hour.

The biggest problem I seem to be having at the moment is deciding what punctuation to use. XDD;; Do I use a dash, semi-colon, do I put a full stop? That's actually a big thing, deciding if I should 'let' the sentence continue, where it seems to get huge, or stop it, and it seems kinda, stop and start. but since this is an interview, it's kinda expected.

I am amused by how much 'like' I say. XD;;

Cognitive Neuroscience... eh, not completely what I expected. I thought it was going to be more like Cognitive Psychology, but this is more the cognitive stuff, from a biological view. So, not as bad. The bad thing is that the module leader was the supervisor I had in third year, for the groupwork. *shudder* She pretty much reads off the screen.

The assignments don't seem that bad - a presentation in a group, an essay, and an exam. The essay is for the twelfth week. XDD I say it sounds aaaages away right now, but we'll see what happens when we factor in the honours project.


So I e-mailed P this morning - I'm going to be asking her second years on Friday, in a tutorial, and then I'm going to be going to someone else's lecture on Monday to try and get first years (but she's also got second years in that lecture, so I might not have to go to P's lecture, also on Monday). Thankfully, it doesn't look like I'll have to be standing in front of two-hundred people like I thought I thought I would be - looks like the most will probably be... sixty-ish (there's seventy in the entire year.) ... Huh. I remember in my first year, people were saying that there was about ninety. I'm sooo glad I only have to get about five per year.


So, I've been following the instructions of the person at the induction thing for qualitative research. I've been listening to my interview again before I start transcribing it and... just... omg. My voice. My voice! XDD;; It's deeper than I expected. And, uh, sometimes I can't hear myself on the dictaphone; I need to either speak up, and/or talk closer to the thing. I don't hear that much of a Scottish accent, but I'm actually really bad at picking the accent out unless it's really really broad. Plus, I'm trying to make sure... idunno, I can hear myself so I don't have problems transcribing myself. Which is, y'know, stupid, because I'm the person who's transcribing it. *facepalm*

And the first day of uni is done. Bleh.

Abnormal Psychology is... it's what I expected, considering who's teaching it. We're going to be covering stuff like sadomasicism (as a metaphor), drugs, depression, suicide, social causes of stress. It was kinda funny when someone came in late, heard G talking about suicide, and then walked right out again. Yeeeah, at least they weren't sitting in the class before they realised they were in the wrong place.

The assessments for it though... DD: I don't like this two short-answer thing we have to do for three weeks. It's just very specific. The twenty minute presentation I don't think I'll mind so much. Then the essay should be okay too.

Now to see what Cognitive Neuroscience is going to be like tomorrow. Oh, you can just imagine my joy, with a name like that. DD:


I did my first participant today! XD;; I procrastinated a bit, but I wasn't stressed so much. Probably because she's a friend. Twenty minutes long, and I hadn't asked all of my questions, so it's not that bad. :3 Now to get nineteen other people.

I'd talked to M, who's the person who is on that volunteer panel thing - er, she hasn't put them together yet, and she's not sure if she'd be able to give me five participants per year. *facepalm* So much for me thinking that I would have loads to pick from. Meh, gonna go e-mail P and see if I can go into one of her lectures. No idea what I'd say though. =/

Now to transcribe the thing omg, I'm gonna hate the sound of my own voice

I've done most of my lit review - 2,600 words, and this is kinda a copy&paste job, so I haven't been making links, saying what my aims are, or, you know, what my hypothesis is. You'd think I'd have learned from last year. ~_____~ At least I remembered it at this stage this time.

So, re-looking at my timetable, it's taken me this long to notice that, yeah, nine o'clock starts for the three days that I'm coming in. 'Course, I'm hoping that we're going to be told what tutorials and all that we're in, since there's three up.

I have done 800 words for my 4,000 lit review. XD;; That's the intro (with one part that is actually the very last part I should say, whoops). I've categoried what references should be supporting what theory bundle, but it's a headache, because they overlap. =/

So I'd e-mailed R, and he says that I was actually supposed to e-mail someone else. ... And I just realised that I didn't ask her about if I could get a mike for my dictaphone. Ack, whenever she gets back.

Now for some more sleep, and to get cracking again at the lit. review (as well as the methods section, but that's pretty much done anyway)


The cold's clearing up, though my throat feels a little swollen at the moment. Sneezing with that really sucks though; it actually hurts.

Been iiill. D: I spent half the day yesterday underneath three duvets, feverish and with a headache. I wasn't coughing that much, but my shoulders feel sore. Feeling better now though.


-____- Buuuut... I've been waiting for a letter from uni, telling me where to go during fresher's week, for the introductionary stuff. Since it hadn't come, I'd assumed that fresher's week was next week.

This had to be the first time that the uni decided save paper and send that letter through e-mail. D: Damn. So this week is fresher's week, I haven't e-mailed people yet, nor have I wrote my lit review.

...

Yeeeah, that's what I'll be doing this week, so fanfiction'll take a little langer to come up. ^ ^;;

I - uh... yeah.

What does it say about me when I admit that I completely forgot that there was a second Fullmetal Alchemist anime? *headdesk* I'd gotten to the ninth episode or something, and then stopped because of uni.

I only remembered it now because of a comment on tvtropes. XD;;

EDIT: ...And there's a third Golden Sun game coming out?! For the DS!! DDD: Noooooo! I want it!

<__< Yeah, I think The Path From the Past, An Age Old Problem and Through New Eyes have gotten more interest again. asdfg

For me, obviusly. ;p

( List of my unfinished fics )

Total number of unfinished fics from 2003: 18
Fics that I want to continue because of this post: 7.
Eh, not that bad.

Looks like I'd had more unfinished fics from my earlier years - probably because I'm mostly writing one-shots now . ;p

This will be interesting. But at least I did this in January, rather than Feburary, like I've done for the last two years. ^ ^;

( Fics in 2009 )

:DD Early happy holidays!


I was wanting to write a 'proper' entry for yuletide but I'm getting ill. :( Just been feeling a little dehydrated over the last couple of days, coupled with a mild temperature and lethargy. Bleh.

I got probably got eight-hundred words done too, which is annoying. =___= But I wouldn't want to post it either because they seemed to very much ooc. :( Except, with those characters, it can be ic. It was a bit too much for my brain to handle. *grumble* I'll see what it's like in the morning, and then probably go look around for a beta.

OMG. There's, like, two or three inches of snow outside my window. I have never seen this amount of snow in my life! :DDD

:D Yeeeeeey~~~ This semester is. Over. And this is the first winter break of uni that I've had that I don't have coursework or exams looming as soon as I get back. :3 Except we're getting our marks at the same time as last year. =/ Hmm.

( uni stuff )


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( 1/2 Prince manga chapters 37 - 38 )


( 1/2 Novel Volume 2, chapter 4 - 5 )
I'll read the rest of the chapters later. :DD

Super long post!

( Stuff )


D: I haven't read the new chapters of 1/2 Prince (the novel chapters or the manga chapters) because of all this, and I wanted to squee publically over them. Hopefully I can do it soon.

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.