brokenrecord

( Glee )

( Lost )

I managed to finally get started on my social psych research proposal, and I actually got exactly 2 1/2 pages done, and it only has to be 5, and I didn't do barely any of the Method section which is super easy because I'm using the same design as another study that's kind of a basis for what I'm proposing so it won't take a lot of effort to get another page out of that. Then I just have an intro paragraph for the intro section (which I have outline, I was just too lazy to start. I was about to! ...but then I decided I'd rather watch Glee. Which I think was a very good choice as Glee was excellent) and the Results/Discussion which is basically just like "How would you interpret expected and unexpected results? What implications would this have?" and that's kind of where I like... started the proposal when I was thinking about it, so basically it should be fine.

Yay that Mad Men is returning July 25th! I think this is earlier than last year. Although July 25th is still way too far away. I think I'm going to rewatch Mad Men this summer before the new season. Then again, I feel like I have plans to rewatch or start a million shows, so more likely than not, I won't get around to it. I definitely want to do a full series rewatch of Lost after the finale, and that's already going to take up a huge amount of time, and I'm not going to spend the entire summer watching TV. (More like 95%, probably.)

This is a somewhat massive post.

( Bones - 5.16 )

( Lost - 6.11 )

btw, I was watching Lost on Hulu and during one of the breaks there was an ad for the new Doctor Who season on BBC America. I was so not expecting that to be advertised, but it was awesome (and made me even more excited for the next episode!).

I don't think my social psych professor understands the "mini" part of "mini-assignment," because we were just assigned a 5-10 page research proposal as a "mini"-assignment. At least it's only worth like 10 points (out of a total 250 or so for the entire semester). Still, wtf? The mini-assignments have been getting increasingly harder, which is annoying. The first one was deceptively easy (it was like... find any sort of study published within the last year having to do with social psychology and explain their hypothesis, methods, and what they found), and the second one wasn't bad either (it had to do with comparing a friend's ratings on a scale to what you perceive their personality to be and some other stuff I forget, but it wasn't difficult).

Last but not least, I'm finally posting pictures of my apartment that I'm living in right now, and I figured since I'm finally posting them, I might as well also finally post the pictures of my ridiculously small dorm room I was in from 2008-2009 (my sophomore year). There are also 2 bonus pictures of my pet birds from home just because I haven't posted any pictures of them in years.

( Pictures of Apartment and Dorm Room! )

Today is Academy Awards Nominations Day! I adore the Academy Awards. I can't even explain why. A lot of the time they make stupid choices (well, in my opinion; film taste is, of course, subjective), and most of the time several of the films I consider best of the year get little or no attention. But, I don't know. It's just so much fun! I can't really describe it. I like award shows in general, but I greatly prefer movie award shows because for TV award shows, even fewer TV shows I love get any attention, and they nominate the same crap year after year and the same stuff wins and it's just horribly boring. But at least with movies, if there's something I hate, it's gone the next year. And for the past 3 years, the movie that won Best Picture at the Oscars I've really loved, even if it wasn't my favorite of the year (let's not mention 2005, which was one of the greatest movie award injustices in history, in my opinion).

Anyways, enough about that. Here are my opinions on the nominations, and what my ideal nominations would have been (for the 8 major categories: picture, director, the writing categories, and all the acting categories; despite taking a film class and looking online, I still don't know the difference between sound editing and sound mixing, I barely understand Art Direction, and I don't have much of an opinion about the other categories most of the time. Although I do enjoy score and cinematography typically. But I didn't feel like discussing them).

( Academy Awards Nominations Thoughts )

( Ideal Academy Awards Nominations )

(omg I spent way too much time in Dunn Brothers putting this together. At least there are some open tables so I don't feel like too much of a douche.)

I didn't mention in my last post because I had so many things to complain about, but hey, it's February! January always goes by so quickly. Probably because most of the month I don't have school. Anyways, in January I watched 261 episodes of TV (which is crazy because that's way more than I usually watch in a month, 30 more than last January, and I'm like 1 1/2-2 weeks behind on TV due to not having internet), 11 movies (more than I expected considering I only watched 2 from 01/01-01/14), and read 2 books (! crazy! I don't know if I said this before, but my goal this year is to read at least one book a month. I hope to actually read more than 12 books in the whole year, but I tend to go in phases where I'll read like 7 books in a few weeks and then nothing the rest of the year, so reading at least one book a month should actually boost the number of books I read all year. Actually, I already finished one book in February, and I'll probably get to a few more what with the stupid internet not working for another few days, so that's good. I love reading, but it's too hard to work in while I have classes because even if I have time to read, I get too sucked in to whatever I'm reading and then neglect everything else so I can finish the book, and it's just easier not to read anything).

Not being able to watch the most recent episode of Chuck is physically hurting me. Okay, not really, but it does suck. Most stuff I can deal with having to wait 1-2 weeks to watch, but not Chuck. The same is true for Greek, actually, but it just came back so I'm more used to it not being around and so it doesn't seem as tragic that I haven't seen the last episode. Also, the fact that I'm going to miss the Lost premiere sucks. Although I suppose it's easier to delay watching that when I've already been waiting months and months than to delay watching something I'm used to seeing every week. I really hope I don't get spoiled for Lost, though. =/ I suppose the fact that I'm being more productive than normal (especially at this point in the term) doesn't suck. It is weird though. And I don't have enough work to take up my whole night, so I still end up with time left over with nothing to do.

Ok, time to go back to my apartment since I've been in here for like an hour and a half now.

I finally finished it! I only started it like a month ago!



( OTP Picspam )

I am home! It is Spring Break! Neither of the two tests I had this week went particularly well, but they're over, so it's not like I can do anything about them now.

I watched Torchwood and Skins on the plane (loved Skins, ok with Torchwood) and I may post about them tomorrow, but I am absolutely exhausted now (1 AM Minnesota time, and I didn't get much sleep the past few nights). I may also post about Lost or The Return of Jezebel James, both of which I haven't seen yet but plan to. I'm pretty sure The Return of Jezebel James is going to be absolutely awful, but... Michael Arden! So I have to see it.

Ok, I'm going to collapse into bed now. I will have more interesting things to say tomorrow (maybe. I probably shouldn't promise anything).

All of these are kind of random and not really specific episodic moments (some, but not entirely) but more general season comments focusing on those episodes. If that makes any sense.

( Eli Stone 1.03 )

( Torchwood 2.05-2.06 )

( Lost 4.02-4.03 )

( Supernatural 3.09-3.11 )

Ok, so now I'm maybe going to rewatch Doctor Who S3. I'm not sure if I want to watch it through once without commentary and then a second time with, or just start the first time with commentary. I don't know. Maybe I won't start rewatching just yet, and instead make icons and a new layout. I also kind of feel like rewatching Firefly. So who knows what I'm going to do. (Such decisions! My life is so hard, I know.)

People are weird. I'm just making icons, minding my own business, when out of nowhere this girl IMs me who I've never talked to before and is just all "Hey." So I'm like "...uh, hi. Who are you?" And she's all "It's Tara!" and I'm all "...uh. Who?" and she's all "TARA." (Like somehow putting it in all caps is going to make me understand. Like, oh, RIGHT. Now I get it! TARA!) So I'm like "...I don't know anyone named Tara, so maybe you could understand my confusion?" and she's all "...is this Sarah?" and I'm all "No." and she's all "...oh." So I think that's it. But then 5 min later, she IMs me again and is all "Well, do you like Green Day?" and when I said "...uh. Yes." she was all "Do you like My Chemical Romance?" and I was all "...yeah, I guess" and she was all "Oh, good. They're my favorite band. I'm listening to them now." And I'm all "...yay?" and then she asked me what school I went to, and when I told her, she was all "...oh. You're in high school?" and when I said yes, she was all "I'm not. I'm in 6th grade." And then she started talking to me about how her sister is a freshman and is mean to her and always yells at her and makes fun of her.

Yeah. Bizarre.

Anyways. Somehow I have absolutely no homework tonight, so I've just been making icons all night. I felt like making Veronica Mars icons, but I had no specific like scene or episode that I wanted to make them of, so I've just been refreshing the main page at vm-caps and looking at the random images that come up. It's actually kind of cool, because I'll find really gorgeous caps that I would've never noticed before when going through all the episode caps, and now I've made a bunch of icons that I really like. I should really make an icon post soon.

I've noticed that I really just don't care about Lost anymore. I mean last season after the first 10 episodes I was like "OMG THIS SHOW IS PRETTY AWESOME" and then after that it just kind of... sunk. But even by the finale I was still like "Well, ok, Veronica Mars is 1000 times better, but I still really enjoy this. But this season... I don't know what's wrong. But, I mean, it's on right now, and I have no homework, no other responsibilities, and I'm choosing to make icons. I mean, seriously. All season I had to record it instead of watch it because of VM, and then once VM moved, I had APs and SATs to worry about. But that's all over, and I'm still like "...eh. I'll watch it tomorrow." It's weird, though, because I can't really pinpoint anything that I really dislike about it. Maybe it's the fact that it seems like there are only 5 characters living on the island these days (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Locke, and Ana Lucia).

( Veronica Mars! Spoilers for alternate ending and next week's promo if you haven't seen either. )

I know I said I might watch Lost tonight instead of waiting, but I ended up being too excited about this episode and less excited about Lost. Probably won't watch it till Friday since I have 2 quizzes to study for tomorrow afternoon and one of them is Euro and I need all the points I can get in that class. (But then again, knowing me, I'll probably watch Lost before doing any work at all. sigh.)

I've started Pride and Prejudice and am about 80 pages in. Supposed to be annotating for themes and motifs, but right now I just want to get familiar with the story and characters and plot and then go back. I'm kind of thinking about reading the entire book instead of the first 100 pages (which is what's due next Tuesday) since I really like the story and want to know what happens. I think it'll depends on when I get Sense and Sensibility and the Sims 2 expansion. If I don't get them by Saturday then I'll probably just finish P&P since I won't have anything else to preoccupy myself with.

I can't believe tomorrow is December 1st. It feels like fall has gone by so quickly, but then thinking back, band camp and How the Irish Saved Civilization feel like they were ages ago. It's weird how that works.

wheeee I'm so giddy now. I love how watching Veronica Mars can make me feel. :D

ACT scores are up at the website. The essays aren't done yet, just the multiple choice, but still. I got a 33 (total is 36) on Reading, English, and Science, and a 34 on Math. So my overall score I guess is like a 33. The essay will factor into the final score, though, so I don't know. If you don't know anything about ACT scores, a 33 is a 1460-1500 on the old SAT, so like 2190-2250 on the new SAT. So yeah, very satisfied with that, considering I didn't do any prep for it at all. The SAT is this weekend, but now I won't worry about it as much, seeing as my ACT score (provided the essay doesn't drag it down. I've calculated that the lowest it can drag me down is to a 31 [which is if I got a 2 on the essay, which, yeah, hoping I did better than that]) is nearly 80-140 points higher than my highest practice SAT score was. We'll see, though. For all I know, I'll go crazy and score a 2400 on the SAT! (...heh. I wish.)

The essay in Euro today wasn't too bad. He chose one of the prompts I prepared for better, but I'm afraid I wasn't detailed enough. Whatever. I don't feel like obsessing over it.

( Lost )

Guess I'll go watch last night's episode of My Name is Earl which finally finished downloading.

( Lost )

( Bones )

Happy birthday mistressdm8! Hope you had a great day. :)

Tomorrow I get to sleep in an extra hour! I love Thursday block. Even if it means school gets out later. Actually, when marching band's in, we end up getting out earlier than we do on regular days, which is awesome.