It seems that I haven't posted a blog for a week now, and to be frank that last blog I posted wasn't very interesting or reflective of my life. This past week has been busy and dull at the same time, but I thought I'd share my experiences with you.
So, in the last blog post I mentioned that I was helping my Nan to get ready to move into her new bungalow. I can gladly say that she moved into the bungalow yesterday. There's finally a sense of completion with all of this helping that I've been doing for the past two weeks. Just out of interest, my Nan has moved in a bungalow very near the X-Factor contestant Wagner, however I'm still yet to see him walking around.
At the moment university life is good, I'm actually enjoying all of the work that I'm doing as majority of it is cyberpsychology related. It's that time of the year where I have to do group-work again, I can honestly say that I like all of the members of my group and everyone seems to be pulling their weight at the moment, so all is good. This week I also got one of my assignment grades back, I got an A15 (for those of you who don't know, A16 is the highest grade that you can get), I seriously didn't expect this grade as the assignment was in the form of a reflective account, previously I thought I was poor at writing reflective accounts, but obviously I under-estimated my ability. At the moment I am waiting for my grade and feedback for a reflective essay that I handed in about 4 weeks ago, I'm hoping that all goes well. Someone said to me the other day that we only have two months left at university and it's a rather sad thought. I've made so many friends at university and enjoyed my time there so much, I'll certainly miss everyone but try to stay in touch with as many people as I can. I suppose it all came into realization when I realized that I'm actually working on a PhD proposal, to be honest I never thought I'd get to this point, whoever told me that time at university flies by quickly was certainly right.
I like to mention what I'm reading in my general blog posts, at the moment I am reading two books, one fiction and one non-fiction. As you probably know if you've read my other blog posts I'm reading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", although it's an interesting story I find that I keep losing track with it and my attention span is short when I read it, this is possibly because I'm reading it on Kindle for Android, i.e. I'm reading it on my phone. This actually relates to the other book that I'm reading: "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr. I'm about half the way through the book at the moment and I find it rather interesting although not quite scientific enough for me, but I do believe it gets slightly more scientific as the book goes on. For those of you who have never heard of the book, it's about how the internet is effecting the way that we think, read and remember. The first half of the book is about the history of mediums used to transmit information to the public and how they effected peoples brains and the second half of the book (which I've just started reading) is specifically about the internet and how it is possibly effecting our brains. It's definitely worth the read if you're interested in that type of stuff.
Overall this week has been a bit of a mixed bag, I've helped my family out, did some university work and also been out socializing, which to be honest is a rarity for me just lately. On Wednesday I went to the pub for a few hours with a few friends, a few people that I talk to online but had never met face-to-face and a few people who I had never met before. Going out for a few hours did me a lot of good, I even made new friends, who I admittedly added to Facebook after the night out. I'm considering going out more often!!!!
Before I go, just a quick note about what I've been watching on TV (why not? I've wrote about almost everything else in this post). Lately I haven't had too much time for TV and to be honest I've lost interest in Eastenders, it's becoming rather far fetched. However, I've been watch series three of BBC's "Coming of Age". You might consider this as nerd talk about television and therefore a bit strange, but I do love the characters group dynamic and see every character as being fundamental to the group, basically if one character was missing the group dynamics wouldn't be the same, but the can be said for every group of people in every TV show I suppose. On a less nerdy note, I really enjoyed the most recent story line, especially the how it ended with DK's story having a serious plot. The last episode of the story line that has just finished was very funny and very sad at the same time, very well written indeed. I'm looking forward to the next story line and future series of the show, I want to see more discussions between Ollie and Matt they seriously make me giggle. "Coming of Age" is similar to "The Vicar of Dibley" in the sense that everyone in the group have different characteristics yet the group fits together nicely and more subjectively I like both shows and find it hard to pick a favourite character from both.
I've just realised that the Google Chrome spell checker feature is set to American spellings for some reason, so I'm sorry if I've used a few American spellings in this blog post.
See you all soon,
Jodie
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