Dec 06, 2009 19:33
For my IB Psych class, I have to do an experiment on another class in the school. I chose my third period Graphic Design class to do mine on, and boy that was a bad idea. See, in order to properly follow the ethical guidelines set for me, I have to have any participant below the age of sixteen take home a consent form and have a parent sign it. Which of course means I had to give all those kids in the class consent forms, tell them to get parent signatures, and wait for the next time we had class in the hopes they'd remember. Well, I gave them the consent forms on Wednesday, and came to class on Friday to find, as I'd suspected would have happen, only two people remembered. So as things stand, I have 17 participants. I need 25. I still have a couple more chances, but it's a pain having to put all my faith in a group of kids who don't give two shits about my grade. I should have picked a junior or senior class to do the experiment on. That way I wouldn't have to worry about the consent forms.
I don't even see why we need to bother with the consent forms anyway. All my experiment involves is doing a simple math worksheet. Math may not be everyone's favorite subject (it certainly isn't mine) but I don't think anyone's going to be psychologically scarred by it. >_>;
I'm also coming down with a cold. And I have a math test on Wednesday that I know I'm going to fail. Again. Guh...*silently wishes for winter break. or a snow day*
But hey, enough complaining. Now I'm going to talk about something I like! Yesterday I was out with my boyfriend (yes I have a boyfriend, I guess I've never mentioned him on here before), and we went into this Asian marketplace. In the back they had a Japanese bookstore, and it was basically a gold mine of all awesome things related to manga. I was in heaven. XD It was all in Japanese, but I didn't care. I just never knew there was a place in my town where I could buy manga volumes, artbooks, music, and other merchandice that hasn't been released in English yet. So now I'm hoping I get plenty of money for Christmas so I can go on a shopping spree. :D On my list are the first three volumes of the Umineko manga, the Soul Eater artbook, this one Higurashi/Umineko/some other manga crossover I found, a Vocaloid CD, and one of the Haruhi soundtracks. And maybe that Kisuke figurine, and random volumes of other series. (Obviously I probably won't be able to get all of these, lol.) I don't want to ask my mom to get me any of that stuff for Christmas though, since I'd imagine her reaction to some of it (especially Umineko) would be less than positive. BD;;
And while I'm talking about Umineko, I'm well into EP 3 now~ I've already been spoiled about a few things at this point, but most of it hasn't. And so far it is SO AWESOME. Also, Umineko fandom has such beautiful fanart. I've already got tons of art I found on AnimeSuki saved into my fanart folder.
In fact, I think I'll go play some Umineko right now! Or do homework. Which I would be doing right now if I wasn't such a procrastinator. Toodles~
animanga: haruhi suzumiya,
awesome things,
vocaloid,
school,
ib psych,
animanga: umineko no naku koro ni,
rl,
animanga: bleach,
not so awesome things,
animanga: soul eater,
animanga: higurashi no naku koro ni