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Very, very random TV thoughts:

( Dollhouse )

( Ugly Betty )

( Legend of the Seeker )

I was incredibly productive Friday afternoon/night (I finished all my Discrete Math work for the week! The week is suddenly looking a bit better knowing that I don't have DM on Thursday and can sleep in and don't have to do anything else for the class until next weekend.) and I actually got a good amount done Saturday as well. It turns out I have less to do this weekend than I originally thought, which is good. Today I need to finish revising my introduction and results for my research project so I can go over it and my presentation with my adviser tomorrow, prepare for the presentation, prepare for my cognitive psych group presentation (which is on Thursday, but we're meeting Tuesday to work on it, so I should have stuff prepared by then), and... I don't know. Start making flashcards for my German/Cognitive Psych finals? As I said, I actually don't have a lot left. Which is why I'll probably do nothing before dinner, and then after dinner I'll start feeling stressed out that I've done nothing all day and go to the library for a few hours and get everything done. Which should be fine. I mean, really, none of the stuff I'm planning on doing today is actually due tomorrow or Tuesday even, so it's not entirely necessary I get it done now. It's just so I don't go crazy this week or next.

I analyzed my results for my research project Friday and got zero significant results. Well, for one of the scales, the result was marginally significant, but in the exact opposite way I predicted, and... I don't know what to say about that. I can talk about no result, but I can't talk about the opposite result. It makes zero sense. I mean, the result is basically that in students without siblings, social self-esteem is higher for freshmen/sophomores than for juniors/seniors, which doesn't fit AT ALL with the literature that shows very clearly that social skills are gained throughout time in college. But it's not significant, so I don't really have to explain it too much. It's a little disappointing not to have any significant results and to not have my hypothesis supported, but I can think of several reasons why this might be, and most directed research students don't end up with significant results. In my group, of the 2 other people who have finished data analysis, one had zero significant results, and the other had significant results, but, like me, had a bunch of results she totally didn't expect and can't explain. Data analysis in general is kind of really cool, though. It's real world data! Rather than random made up data sets so you can learn how to use SPSS! I don't know. I enjoyed it. I would totally enjoy like being a statistics/data analysis consultant for... someone, or something. I don't know. I'm a dork.

There are only 13 days until my last final and then I'm flying home! I can't wait. I can so do with a break right now. And in 8 days, my research project is due, and that's causing me more stress than anything else right now, probably, so I'll be so thankful to have that out of the way. This past week went by super fast, so I'm hoping this week will as well. Especially since I have 2 presentations this week, and I hate presentations. I'm so bad at public speaking. blah.

Current Mood: okay

I've recently been seeing a lot of good things about Sons of Anarchy, which I had only recently heard of. What's it even about? Do people who have seen it recommend it? I totally don't need a new TV show in addition to everything else I watch, but at the same time, I always want to check out shows that people are like "This is seriously one of the best shows on TV right now!" about. And I'm always looking for new shows to watch, even though I totally have plenty on my plate right now.

Dollhouse being canceled sucks but is not even remotely surprising. What's surprising is that they're actually going to show the rest of the episodes. I would love for this show to go on for years and years, and I'm disappointed it's gone, but I suppose I appreciate that it got a second season at all, and its ratings were absolutely horrible. Oh well.

( Glee )

( Being Erica )

I'm totally adoring Friday Night Lights this season. I just never have anything to say about it. I wasn't sure how having so few characters from the original cast and focusing on new characters and this new start would work, but it is.

I get to spend most of the rest of the morning and early afternoon hoping my adviser shows up in his office. Every time I go down there, he's not there, and he has class when I don't have class, and I have class when he doesn't, and I really need to meet with him so I can get my pin number so I can register next Wednesday. bah. I never had this problem in the previous semesters.

Current Mood: busy

Still sick. I don't know if I'm worse or better. I think I had a fever on Sunday night/on and off Monday. Sunday night right as I was going to bed, I just felt super cold, and I was wearing a sweatshirt, socks, and had 2 blankets. Normally it's warm enough in my room that I am fine in a t-shirt, 1 blanket, no socks. Then I woke up (well... I don't feel like I ever really fell asleep. I was drifting in and out of sleep all night. When I get sick, I either fall asleep super fast at like 10 PM and sleep until 10 AM, or I can't sleep at all. Unfortunately, this sickness is a can't sleep at all type.) sometime in the middle of the night and was just like... burning hot. So I took all the extra crap off and was still too warm, but managed to go back to sleep. That seems like having a fever/the chills to me, but I don't actually have a thermometer, so I have no idea what my temperature was. The same went for most of Monday. I did go to all my classes (I actually felt mentally better than on Saturday for the most part, and I'm always so paranoid about missing something that I didn't want to not go. But then it turned out Directed Research lasted like 20 minutes and there was nothing important, in German we did nothing that it would have killed me to miss, and in Cognitive Psych we watched a video about repressed memories). I did skip Wind Ensemble, though, which is crazy since I've never missed a class (including Wind Ensemble) in college on account of being sick. ...it was partially because I had a ridiculous load of Discrete Math work to do, though, and I didn't see me finishing it without skipping. But mostly because playing tenor with a horrible cough and sore throat and possible fever is probably not the best idea, anyways.

I've had so much random stuff to post about that I keep forgetting. So here's some really random stuff:

( Being Erica )

( Greek Rewatch Thoughts )

All my random series rewatch thoughts I wrote down before I saw last night's episode: ( Greek 3.09 )

I don't have a whole lot to say about it, but I must mention that OMG DOLLHOUSE ON FRIDAY WAS AMAZING. Best episode of the show, by far, and I've actually been really enjoying the show up to this point. I adore Sierra and Victor so much. And those actors are amazing. Oh man. When I first heard Dollhouse was renewed I was kind of like "Eh, that's cool" since even though I liked it, I had expected it would be canceled (I was surprised Fox even aired the entire first season), and I wasn't THAT invested in it. But I am so glad it was renewed. I'd love it to get a 3rd season, even though there's even less of a chance of that happening, but still!

Also, I watched the pilot of White Collar, and OMG LOVE. Matthew Bomber is a total GQMF. And I was severely lacking Bryce Larkin on my TV. But even besides him, the whole show was just so much fun! I loved that the FBI guy actually enjoyed his job and has a pretty good relationship with his wife and his wife doesn't get supremely pissed off that he has to work so often! It's just kind of... refreshing! I was sad that Psych had to go on hiatus so soon (I mean, this is how it always is, but it always seems so short! Only 8-9 episodes and then off the air for months is not cool!), but I'm much more okay with it with this being the replacement.

I am going home tomorrow! I am so excited. I'll finally have a Wednesday night where I'm not killing myself trying to finish my Discrete Math homework! I will have homework I'll probably have to do over the weekend, but not too much, which means I can spread it out a bit and I'll still have a pretty relaxing break.

Current Mood: sick

( Mad Men 3.05 )

( True Blood 2.12 )

I finally, finally watched Dollhouse 1.13, the DVD-only episode. I don't know why I waited so long, but HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME. I kind of had an idea of what it was about going in and it didn't seem that appealing, but it was just amazing. I'm now so looking forward to seeing what they do this season. I would love if the show could go all the way through and past what is shown in 1.13, but I feel like this will probably be the last season of the show. I mean, it was a miracle that it was renewed even past the first season. And even if it does get renewed again, it's not like it's going to go on 10+ years. Although I suppose they could do flashforwards or speed up time (like have this season take up 3 years, or jump forward in time after the end of this season, or whatever). In any case, I'm super excited for this season (especially with ALEXIS DENISOF guest-starring! He totally hasn't been on TV enough since Angel ended). For some reason, I thought it was premiering this Friday, so I was not very happy to find out that it's not actually premiering until the week after this Friday.

We do not have an air conditioner in the apartment, and it sucks. I'm actually longing for the weather to get cold because we do at least have a heater. And at least with cold weather, you can always put more layers on. At the very least, I'm looking forward to it being October. But right now it's been in the 80s everyday, and while I have two windows that open in my room, they like... open up from the bottom, and they just get cracked like 30 degrees open, so there's essentially no breeze. Stupid Minnesota weather. You're never what I want you to be.

I met with my Directed Research adviser yesterday about my project. It looks like the proposal I did for Research in Psych last semester should work, although it needs some tweaking. I don't know, it was weird because she spent most of the meeting poking holes in the proposal and asking me a bunch of questions I didn't know the answer to, and then at the end she was like "Ok, you're doing well here! This should work for you!" And I was just like "...what?" But I realized afterwards that she was trying to think of criticisms that'll come up when I submit it to the IRB. So... I think I'm doing all right? I don't know. At least I have a topic. That's always the hardest part for me. And if I can do this proposal, I have loads of research and planning already done (...which may have been the main reason I wanted to go ahead with this proposal, since the idea of having to do the proposal I did last semester again for a different subject in much less time was really not appealing). I don't know. I'm at least feeling better about this, even if only just a little bit, because I'm just a little bit closer to being done than I was yesterday, which is nice.

Current Mood: sleepy

Chuck has been officially renewed! Thank god. I know most of the reports and rumors over the past few weeks were positive, but I still didn't want to get too excited until it was confirmed. I'm also shocked (but very happy) about Dollhouse being renewed. I went into the season expecting it to be canceled and the ridiculously low ratings just supported that belief. I'm definitely glad it's coming back, especially since the final aired episode didn't wrap things up as much as I would have liked.

My grades came in a few days ago, and I somehow got straight A's. If you had told me I'd do that well 2 months ago, I would have laughed in your face. Definitely happy about that, anyways.

My parents and I are into the second season of How I Met Your Mother now. They're really loving it, which is good, because I wasn't 100% sure they would. We're not going to finish it on this trip seeing as this is our last night away from home, but we'll probably finish it at a slower pace over the summer.

Current Mood: good

It is finally Saturday! I feel like I've been waiting for today forever. Except I'm still not done with everything. My take-home final for stats is entirely done (yay!), but I still have another paragraph to write for the paper (but whatever that'll take like 10 minutes at most, and it's not due for another 3 hours). And after that, I still have the psych paper. But I have until Monday for that, so that should be fine.

My parents are arriving in a few hours, too! That'll be nice. Once they're here, I'll no longer have to eat another meal at the campus center ever again! I'm so happy about that, you have no idea. And I'm going to stay in the hotel with them once they get here, so last night was actually my last night in the dorms ever!

I really desperately want to watch last night's episode of Dollhouse. blah. I do have time before my paper is due, but it's like... I still have to pack up all my stuff and write this other paper, too, so I really should be doing that stuff. I don't know, maybe I'll take a small break and then get back to other stuff and maybe have time after that to watch Dollhouse.

Anyways, since I'll be staying in hotels from now until May 19th, it's probably a good time to say that I have no idea what sort of internet connection I'll have for the next week and a half. I'm going to try to update and maybe check my flist, depending on how much time I have and whether I'm afraid of being spoiled for shows or not. I am going to try to stay caught up on TV, too, but I find it very unlikely that'll happen. I'll probably only be able to keep up with HIMYM, because it's the show I care most about keeping up with. The travel schedule is that we're leaving St. Paul on Tuesday, then going to Mitchell, SD; Wall, SD; Alliance, NE; Estes Park, CO; Craig, CO; Park City, UT; St. George, UT; and then home to CA.

Current Mood: tired

Oh man, I totally didn't find out until yesterday that Dollhouse is premiering Friday! I'm very excited (the promos look so good!), but I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much. I feel like if I get overly excited, I'll build it up too much and then my expectations will just be way too high and I'll inevitably find it disappointing. But I'm still letting myself be a little excited about it.

I think the plot-y stuff on Heroes has gotten better since it came back, but I still am not very interested in it, and I realized that's because I still don't care about any of the characters left. Like, I like Sylar, and... that's pretty much it. Everyone else is annoying me for one reason or another. And I'm still slightly bitter about them killing off Elle. She was one of the few reasons I was still watching (even though I know that's an unpopular opinion). Although, ( Spoilers for lastest episode ) Actually, I wish the plot-y stuff would get absolutely terrible again, so then I might actually stop watching it. It's not like I don't have enough shows on Mondays as it is.

School stuff has been going ok. ( School stuff. )

Ok, I have an hour before Wind Ensemble, and I totally should start getting some work done because I have a quiz in Differential Equations tomorrow, but instead I'll probably waste time online or read a book (since my books and DVDs my mom sent me finally came yesterday!) or something.