Thank you to brynspikess and paraka for the dragons last week! They're much appreciated. My profile page just keeps getting prettier. :D

( in which nickel complains about school )

I've noticed something about myself. When things are minimally stressful at school, I'm moderately active in fandom. I post new podfic, I read new fic, I comment on other people's posts. When things are moderately stressful at school, I drop off the face of the Internet. No posts, no comments, no reading, no nothing. Then, when things are extremely ( Read more... )

 I have two more weeks of classes before the Spring semester is over, and everything is due next week. Two presentations and three papers, and then I'm in the clear until June.

I have podfic plans. Oh yes I do. I am excite.

I wanted to record a ton of podfic over winter break, but that break was swallowed whole by Christmas. May, however...requires ( Read more... )

 I have spent all morning lazing around browsing through icon communities instead of writing my CBT paper. Found some really fantastic icons, but srsly. I don't have time for this kind of lazy-ass procrastination. Or, if I'm going to procrastinate, why can't I do it while recording podfic ( Read more... )

My school let out for Spring Break, so naturally my immune system went somewhere warm and sunny, leaving me in wet, snowy Chicago with a nasty head cold.

I'm spending today writing a case study for Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy, due via email on Monday afternoon. I got to pick any substantial fictional character from literature, television, ( Read more... )

My last class of the semester was a week ago today, and my final exam for the semester was a week ago tomorrow. I've been spending the intervening days stumbling around trying to catch up on Christmas shopping and housework. (Nickelhusband means well, but he has a high tolerance for clutter and dirt. So do I, but his is higher.) I've also been ( Read more... )

I've written 40 pages of academic papers since Wednesday. That's not counting the 18 single-spaced pages of transcription I did for Interviewing Skills on Friday. Three papers total, one submitted electronically on Saturday, the other two turned in during class today ( Read more... )

My life as a SPN story arc ( Read more... )

Reading Erikson's "Identity and the Life Cycle" for my Psychology of Lifespan class, I've learned the following ( Read more... )

 I finished my first week of grad school.

So far...honestly, I love it. The amount of reading I have to do is insane, and 90% of my classmates are younger than I am, but my instructors are awesome and the material is genuinely interesting.

Just one thing - before I enrolled in a Master's in Clinical Psych program, I didn't spend a lot of time ( Read more... )