Well, I am officially finished my thesis. As I type, I am printing out the third (of four) copies which will be going to Trent to be archived. Why four you ask? Why not just three (one for my advisor, one for second reader, and one for the Psyc office archives)? Well let me tell you why! Because all theses that receive A's (80% and above) are ( Read more... )

I honestly had one of the best/laziest days ever today. Woke up at 8:30 (really don't know why, but that's when my body decided was time to get up), and then proceeded to spend the rest of the day snoozing. Either on the air mattress in my room, or on the bed in Jamie's room while he played computer games. I love it. I'm usually in a similar ( Read more... )

So I was having an okay day, feeling pretty good about things. Met with Elaine this morning and we worked out what will happen with my wonky results. Did some reading, made a "to do" list, ran a participant in Candice's lab. Then I made the mistake of opening up Statistica and trying to get towork on my results. The first couple regressions ( Read more... )

So, the quest for participants continues. I spent all day Monday and Tuesday sitting and hoping for people to show up. I actually didn't do too badly, mostly thanks to the efforts of Candice who sent people my way after they finished her tasks. But it was certainly enough downtime to finish everything I'd brought with me to read. So yesterday I ( Read more... )

First off, an apology to people that I talk to online. For whatever reason the internet connection at Barnardo likes to cut out at random intervals, which makes conversations somewhat difficult. Unfortunately I don't see this being fixed in the near future, since we have no idea what's causing it. But, for future reference, if I disappear ( Read more... )

Blaaaaaaaah. So today was the first in my month long quest to get 75 men and 75 women to fill out questionnaires on such thrilling topics as attachment, depression, and perceived social support. To that end I spent my day sitting in one room hoping people would show up. From 10 this morning until 5 this evening I sat, finished Guards! Guards!, ( Read more... )

So I woke up this morning, did my traditional muttering about having to get out of bed, got dressed, opened my blinds and gasp there's snow all over the bloody place. Apparently the wind I heard last night was just part of a storm. I realize this brands me as a very poor Canadian, but I really am not a fan of snow. Sure, it looks pretty. And ( Read more... )

So today is a little annoying so far. My alarm scared the hell out of me this morning, what an awesome way to start. Class was okay, graded poster presentations and such which is always thrilling. Kind of sad the two "religious psych" ones weren't there, but whatever. After 30 minutes of class (really doesn't take long to grade 15 posters) I ( Read more... )

Hokay. So I have some time to kill before I have to leave to catch the bus and head to campus. Why they felt the need to make all fourth year Psyc courses start at 9 in the goddamn morning, I will never understand. Anyway. Psychpathology this morning, then a great big break until one of my few thesis workshops. We get to learn about ethics ( Read more... )

Was talking with Jamie earlier today about what constitutes "the good life", whether I think I'm living one, all sorts of fun thigns like that. Basically I said yes, that at that current moment in time I was happy with my life. That if I died in the next 10 minutes, sure there would be things I'd miss that I enver got to do, but overall I was ( Read more... )