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[May. 21st, 2013|10:29 pm]
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Took Flint for a walk with the boy tonight.
We found an enclosed field, with no other animals in sight and let him off.
We played ball with him for a while, which he loved (so did we).
Think we may have worn the old boy out.
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| May Two-Four |
[May. 21st, 2013|03:50 pm]
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I spent the long weekend with my old housemate and her sister in Brantford, Ontario (her current co-op job location). We were also supposed to visit our other old housemate in Hamilton, Ontario but those plans ended up falling through. We saw a bit of fireworks that her neighbours set off in the park nearby but that was about it. I can't remember what I did last year for Victoria Day. It was a short lasting tradition in high school for me and my friends to head down to the beach and watch the fireworks together under a lot of blankets. I really miss those days. Only one person out of everyone that I texted in Toronto got back to me about long weekend plans. But I guess it didn't matter anyway, I ended up having a good time in Brantford. I don't think I'd ever want to live there though, there's not really much to do and it lacks a lot of ethnic diversity.
( The only exciting thing to come out of Brantford was Wayne Gretzky.Collapse ) |
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[May. 16th, 2013|10:19 pm]
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I don't feel like I belong anywhere. |
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| T - 3 hours |
[May. 15th, 2013|11:03 am]
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I have HAIRSPRAY in my hair. This tells you how serious I am. I don't think I've used hairspray in over 5 years. Also: a butterfly clip. *g*
Alsoalso my scary former-supervisor-now-committee-member M is sick and can't make it so I might not get asked tough questions about how I propose to blend thematic and narrative methodology after all? |
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[May. 13th, 2013|12:56 pm]
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A stranger on the street told me I was beautiful. She may have been a bit drunk. She was walking with a couple of friends as I was walking past her and I noticed I had caught her attention for some reason. She looked at me with an almost incredulous expression and suddenly blurted out: "oh my god you're beautiful."
I thanked her awkwardly. And then we went our separate ways. I wonder why I'm more inclined to believe certain people's opinions of me over other's. |
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| Sunday |
[May. 10th, 2013|09:39 am]
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On Sunday we went to the park to meet Rob, Suzy, Ewan and Kurt from our NCT group. They are probably the only people I still have contact with. I guess we are drifting apart and perhaps never had too much in common with one another anyway.
They are moving house soon, we are not really sure exactly why and neither are they. They seemed to have decided that they needed to move to be closer to her job. But they can't get childcare in the new place and so she is going to not go to work. I was a bit puzzled as they like their current house.
We seemed to spend quite a bit of time mucking around in the sandpit. |
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![[sticky post]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/icon_sticky.png "[sticky post]") Friends Only |
[May. 9th, 2013|11:39 am]
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The name is Christy, but feel free to give me nicknames, you can also call me Passion if you'd like. I'm 24 years old and was born on the 12th of July. I am unemployed and on ssi. I live in Upstate New York, which I think is the most boring place on earth. My family is consistent of my dad, mom, older brother, older sister, younger brother, nieces, nephews and my sister in law. I feel that I am personally a friendly person, but I am moody and anti social most of the time. I have trouble communicating with others and try harder than I have ever did when I was younger. I have too many hobbies to actually list, but I love watching movies and listening to music. I am absolutely terrified of spiders and bees.
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[May. 8th, 2013|08:22 pm]
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My Psychology course on Interpersonal Relationships had a link to this video. It's catastrophically cheesy. But also kind of cute. But also kind of... disheartening. I honestly can't imagine myself ever having the type of relationship with someone that the people in the video described. It seems sort of terrifying to have so much of yourself invested into somebody else. |
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| Classes + Validation |
[May. 7th, 2013|10:15 pm]
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First days of classes went pretty well I'd say. I'm glad I went early to my Monday class (Personality Theory) because I started talking to a girl that was waiting outside the classroom and we ended up sitting together and exchanging numbers. So far my Monday class is the one I'm looking forward to the most. My Tuesday classes were a bit discouraging. There were a few familiar faces in my first class (Research Seminar in Human Cognitive Neuroscience) but nobody that I really talked to. The classroom was in this dingy little Mac computer lab. I tried to make conversation with one of the girls sitting close to me but it didn't turn out to be as successful as my Monday attempt. But still, way to go me for actually attempting to initiate conversation with people. The class only has 17 people and out of those only 4 of them are male. I'm really not a fan of the gender discrepancy that comes with being a psych major. The prof gave us some time to introduce ourselves at the beginning of class. He also gave us an introduction of himself, via power point presentation, that included several hilariously unnecessary pictures of dogs. He seems like a really great guy. The course already seems a bit intimidating though. The first assignment requires partners and I have a strong feeling that I won't have one because there's an uneven number of us and I was the only one not sitting beside somebody. But oh well, it won't do me any good to get discouraged this early on. In my second Tuesday class (Human Physiology II) I discovered that there were many people I knew in that class (including my housemate) and that really lifted my spirits. I've had the prof for this course before (twice before actually) and she's a really amazing person in her lectures but her exams are death. So I'm also a bit nervous about this course. I haven't looked over my two online courses yet but I'll get on that by the end of today. In the Fall school term my course load had been much heavier and I remember on the very first week of classes I had been to the library everyday already diving into my required readings. It's been two days into this semester so far and I haven't read a single page of my readings yet. I need to actively remind myself that I still don't have any room for slack just because my workload is lighter than it used to be. Nobody is going to help keep me on track but myself.
My Personality Theory prof showed us a really encouraging video in class dealing with motivation. In an experiment, children were either put into two conditions. Both conditions involved completing levels of a progressively more difficult task. In one condition the children were praised for their intelligence after each successful completion and in the other condition the children were praised for the effort after each successful completion. Children that were praised for their efforts tended to persist longer when the tasks became very difficult and when given the opportunity to either continue doing more challenging tasks or to go back to the doing the easier tasks, they would choose to continue doing more challenging tasks. Children that were praised for their intelligence tended to give up on task more easily and chose to go back to the easier levels. The theory behind it was that people approach challenging situations in two ways: an opportunity for growth and learning or an opportunity to validate one's own performance ability. The second group is more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed, and this idea is often reinforced when people praise one's intelligence as opposed to one's efforts. I found this really interesting because I have been very down on myself over the years for no longer getting the competitively high grades that I used to get. I grew up around people that constantly told me that I was an intelligent person and most of the time now when I can't understand something I think it's because I'm not smart enough anymore. Many times during university I would give up on trying to properly understand the content of a course and would end up just looking for an easy way out to get a higher grade. I'm not sure which group I belong in anymore. Do I value learning or do I value validating my own intelligence? Because it feels like more and more I try so hard to convince people that I am some highly intellectual person when most of the time I feel like a total fraud that shouldn't really be here. But I do really like learning. I really really like my program and all the interesting things that I've learned over the years. I'm going to try to push myself to value my efforts more and not give up so easily. |
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