brokenrecord

( Being Erica )

...so... when does season 3 start? I need it in my life now!

;lkajsf omg did I really just read that the guy who plays Kai was on Canadian Idol? omg this is cracking me up so much, I don't know why. When he was singing Alien Like You, I was like "He has a really nice voice! This is a nice song!" Oh man that's awesome. He's a really good actor for someone who was on a singing competition! Not that the two are mutually exclusive or anything, but a lot of the time singers are like "I want to act!" and then suck (and vice versa).

ugh I managed to lose my school ID at some point yesterday. This is really only a mild annoyance rather than making me rage. If I still lived on campus, I would be like screaming and tearing my hair out and such because the IDs are how we get into the cafeteria, so I wouldn't be able to eat (at least not by using my meal plan; I could of course buy food, but that would be annoying) without it. But now I really only use it to buy books. It's really only annoying because it's one more thing to take care of, it costs $20 to replace, and because I'm totally bewildered as to how it happened. The ID fits into this little... plastic holder thing that's on a key ring with all my keys, and I definitely had it when I left my apartment to go to Cognitive Psych and German lab yesterday. I would have noticed if the ID wasn't in its holder. And from there it went straight into my jacket pocket. So even if it fell out of its holder, it should have just been in my pocket. Except it wasn't. So where the hell is it? I think once I get my new one, I'm going to keep the ID in my wallet instead of on my key ring because it slips out too often and there's no reason to have it in the holder. It was more convenient when I was on the meal plan to have it there because it was easy to swipe it through without taking it out or whatever, but now there's no point. Actually, I think I want a new key ring entirely, but that's besides the point. I'll deal with that later.

I found out yesterday in German lab that for our oral final, we have to make a 5 minute presentation in groups. al;skjf DO NOT WANT MORE PRESENTATIONS, WTF. And if it was alone, ok, it would be annoying but I'd deal, but dealing with groups is so much more of a hassle because you have to figure out when to meet and everything and I'd rather she just ask us questions like the oral final we had in GERM 101. Or we could just have no oral final like last semester. That would also be preferred. I mean, I'm only working with one other person, and she's a friend and good at German, so it shouldn't be too bad, but I just don't need more things to deal with.

I have a presentation in about 2 hours, and then I have to do a little more data analysis so I ca go over my results with my adviser tomorrow morning, and I should probably also finish revising my Intro and Discussion so I can send them to her as well. I can't wait for it to be a week from Saturday. Even just Monday would be good, because at least then my Capstone would be totally done with. And so would this presentation. On the plus side, I made a list of all the major assignments I had due for the rest of the semester after Thanksgiving break, and it's like half the size that it was then. What I have left to do: Cog Psych group presentation (which will be over with in just a few hours!), revision of Aufsatz #2 (which is super easy, so I'm not worried about it), final paper for my research project, Method/Results/Discussion sections for experiment we did in Cog Psych, project 3 revision for Discrete Math, Discrete Math take-home final, German final, German oral final, and Cognitive Psych final. That's actually not too bad. I think I can make it through the next 9 days without going totally crazy. I am terribly jealous of everyone who has finals this week, though. I want to be done already!

( Gossip Girl )

Ugh I really want to watch last night's episode of Being Erica. But I have so much crap to do today that I told myself I wouldn't watch it until I finished everything. I don't know when exactly I became more excited for Being Erica than for any other show, but... yeah, I'm really loving it. This is what happens when you introduce a ship in a show I can get behind. And I just love how they've been changing up the episodes this season. Plus, Greek is off until February, I've been bitter towards HIMYM since Barney/Robin broke up, I still am really liking TBBT but Leonard/Penny prevents me from being as eager to watch it as last year, and Chuck won't be on until January. And those were all the shows I was obsessive over last semester, so... Being Erica is my new show to obsess over. For like, what, 2 episodes, and then the season's over? Same for Dexter, which is my other favorite show right now. Boo.

The head of the math department sent out an e-mail for people who are interested in being a preceptor (like a T.A.) for Multivariable Calc next semester with my favorite math professor (who was my professor for Multivariable last fall), so I e-mailed her to say I was interested. Unfortunately they give priority to people on financial aid, and I'm not on financial aid, so I probably won't get it, but I figured I'd e-mail her just in case. I'd totally do it for free/no credit/etc.; I just think it would be fun. And will probably make my life way busier than it needs to be next semester, but whatever. As I said, I probably won't get it.

I'm feeling so overwhelmed right now. I just keep remembering stuff I have to do and it just feels like way too much. Unfortunately a lot of stuff I need to do I can't start until Thursday or this weekend, so I feel kind of stuck. On the one hand, I'm so happy that this week has been flying by and there are only 10 days of classes left and 17 total days until I leave for winter break, but on the other hand, I know I have so much stuff left to do and so little time to do it all in. So I'm kind of a mess right now. I'm hoping to get loads done this weekend (I will pretty much live in the library on Saturday and Sunday, I think) so next week isn't quite so overwhelming.

;lkdjsf I GOT LOCKED OUT OF MY APARTMENT FOR THE 2ND TIME THIS SEMESTER WTF. I mean, I feel kind of irritated towards my roommates even though it's entirely my fault. Well... not ENTIRELY. I mean, last time I got locked out I actually forgot to put my keys in my backpack, but this time I put them in, but the pocket was open and they fell out onto the ground next to my desk. So I thought I had them with me! Last time I just went to the library and 2 of my roommates were like right in the front and I saw them immediately and borrowed keys and got in, so no big deal, but this time everyone was in class or... who knows where, so I went to the library until the 9:40-11:10 class period ended and then came back and it was open. And I suppose I did manage to get all my German homework done during that time which is good, but still. I was looking forward to coming back from Discrete Math and relaxing and maybe watching last night's Friday Night Lights and drinking some coffee (I have not kicked this habit yet) before starting to work. Oh well. At least there was an amazing new Kradam video to watch when I got back. I mean, what? I'm totally not still obsessed with AI S8, I don't know what you're talking about!

Anyways. TV Time!

( Being Erica )

Is this season of Being Erica almost over? Or, well, I guess I'm asking if the show has the same number of episodes this season as last season (12, I believe? No more than 13, anyways) or if this season will be a full 22. I don't know if Canadian shows do 22 episode seasons since I've never watched one before. But I really don't want this season to be over already! It's so good!

( Glee )

omg on Amazon they have the complete series of Angel for only $62.31! THAT'S RIDICULOUS. WHY DO I ALREADY OWN SEASONS 1 AND 2? I would be so all over that if I didn't. I'm pretty sure I spent $60 on seasons 1 and 2 INDIVIDUALLY. AND NOW THEY'RE SELLING THEM FOR $12.46 A SEASON. THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE FARSCAPE COMPLETE SERIES DEAL. Maybe I can justify it by buying it and giving my parents seasons 1 and 2?

(I have a serious problem with sales. Must resist spending more money.)

I'm in such a good mood right now! I was feeling really crappy on Thursday and Friday because I stalled out on participants for my research project at 25, and my goal had been 100. And I could see other people posting their surveys, and they were getting tons of participants and far surpassing the number I had even though I had posted it earlier. And I had already sent it to most of the people I was planning to, so I was freaking out. But one of my roommates was asking me about the project (she had already taken the survey and sent it to a few of her close friends) and I was telling her how freaked out I was, and she was like "Ok, I'll make a Facebook event and invite every single one of my Facebook friends who are undergrad students even if I don't know them very well!" and within a few hours, my participant number had shot up from 25 to 44. And right now I'm at 83. I sent it to about 4 more people total over the weekend and asked them to send it around, and I know for sure at least 2 of my friends said they were really busy during the week and they'd be able to take it and send it out over the weekend, so I know some of those participants are due to that, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the additional participants I got were due to her doing that. So I'm like totally indebted to her right now because she really, really helped me out there.

Unfortunately I have a problem now. Despite the number of participants, based on the groups of people I'm looking at specifically, I can't really say anything. I don't have nearly enough freshmen, unfortunately. And I can send the survey out to about 20 people on Facebook that I haven't already sent it to and most of whom are freshmen or sophomores (I'm considering grouping freshmen and sophomores into 1 group, so I'd need 50 total; right now I have 35, so sending it to those people should take care of that difference). However, there are... issues with that? Because one of the scales I'm using I had to pay $100 for 100 permissions (meaning 100 people can take it) and the school's psych department is willing to pay up to about $100 for things like that. But I don't know what happens if I go over 100. And it's not like I can control exactly how many people take the survey; I mean, I can send it to exactly 17 people, but they might not all take it, and there might be some people left who have been too busy or don't check their e-mail often and end up taking it later, which would push me over. I'm going to talk to my advisor tomorrow about it because it's kind of a pretty big problem. Hopefully it'll work out.

Random TV thoughts:

( Being Erica )

( Legend of the Seeker )

I've watched other TV, but can't remember any pressing thoughts I had about them. I have a fair amount of work to do this week, although I've been pretty productive this weekend so far. Mostly. Most of the work is in Discrete Math, which sucks. I really, really do not enjoy that class, and I hate how when we have major projects or assignments due, we still have the normal homework/assignments due, so then there's just a huge pile-up of work that takes hours and hours. Particularly since the basic assignments for every class take hours and hours to get through, and even then I don't finish them and there are questions I've answered wrong. Oh well. I need to remember that I'm taking this class pass/fail and I have an A in it right now, so it's not like I need to worry too much about it. Anyways, I've been taking like an hour break, so I should do a little more work before dinner. Only 2 1/2 weeks until Thanksgiving break! I can't wait to be home again and get to relax for a little while.

I'm finally caught up on TV! It only took forever. This isn't thoughts on everything I've watched, but just the stuff I had stuff to talk about.

( Being Erica 2.03 )

( Merlin 2.04 )

( The Office 6.04 )

( The Vampire Diaries 1.05 )

( The Big Bang Theory 3.04 )

( Greek 3.07 )

( Gossip Girl 3.05 )

I luckily don't have too much work to do this week, at least in comparison to last week and the week before. The most major thing I have is a test in German on Friday, but I'm not too worried about it based on how I did on the first one and how I'm doing in the class. Discrete Math is still being a pain, but at least I don't have to stress out too much about my grade. It does really suck having to get up at 7 AM for a class I don't remotely enjoy, though. I should not have taken another 8 AM class after last semester. Last semester I was like "Never again!" and then I went ahead and signed up for another 8 AM class. Oh well. We're nearly to the halfway point in the semester, at least. I'll be very happy when this semester is over.