Despite having a headache and feeling weak, I've had the most amazing day that I've had at uni for a long time today. Mondays are always my longest days at university and more often than not they seem to drag and I get pretty tired in the process, but today was different. Sadly I didn't have any valentines cards but who needs them when you're surrounded by some of the best people that you've ever met?
This morning I woke up at about 7am and it just felt like an average day despite knowing that I had to do a hour or two of note-taking before I left the house. After a drink (minus breakfast) I sat at my desk to make notes in preparation for a group meeting that was scheduled to start at 11am. Surprisingly I was ready to leave the house at the time I intended to leave the house, this makes a change from messing around getting ready and then running late. Perhaps setting myself tasks to do before I leave the house will motivate me to actually be ready on time.
The bus ride to university was nothing special today, usually I notice look-a-likes or spot someone who is reading the Daily Mail and feel the urge to "stalk" the headlines as they turn the pages of the awful newspaper. I peacefully listened to 1980s New Wave music as I traveled, numerous hits by Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths and so on.
As I walked into university my friend Sammy approached me with a gorilla ... well someone in a gorilla suit. At first I was scared and a bit puzzled as I was tired but then I suddenly remembered the Psychology Society (which I'm actually involved with) were holding a Valentines bake sale in the Students Union, don't ask, I can't fathom out the purpose of the gorilla suit, I think it was to pitch sales of cakes. Sammy and Donna (the friend in the Gorilla suit) gave me a free mini-cake as a sample and a jelly heart. Time was knocking on, so I told them that I would head towards the Students Union once I had finished what I had to do this morning. I then headed to the library to renew one of my books and return another one and after that I collected the key to the room that I had booked and headed towards the room to set up for the group meeting.
The meeting didn't run quite as smoothly as planned as majority of the group turned up much later than expected, so a lot of the time was wasted on sitting around not doing much, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but the meeting could have been much more productive. However, we had some nice conversations including one about the consequences of Richard Daft and Professor David Nutt wrote publications together, how awesome would a report by Daft & Nutt actually be haha (because of their names not their specialisms). My friend Bryn suggested that "Daft & Nutt" sounds like some sort of comedy film and then we went off on one saying that it could be a comedy about two psychologists who practice therapy. We seriously do chat a bit of crap sometimes but it stops life from being dull. The whole conversation sparked from a conversation about where psychologists get such strange last names from, I proposed that if I became a psychologist who published research (like I intend to) I'll change my last name to something like Zoom just so people would remember reading my work.
After the meeting I decided to go and help the girls out with the bake sale, before my workshop started at 2pm. By the time I got there, Donna had decided to take the gorilla suit off as it was too hot and sweaty. The cakes and cookies looked very beautiful (I wish I had a picture to show you, I might be able to steal one from one of my friends though). I bought two cakes to begin with and tried them there and then. Just before I left to go to lecture I bought 2 cakes and 2 cookies to take home, to share with my mom and my brother. There were so many types of cakes (all made by my wonderful friends I must add) but I only tried: Sally's gluten free cupcakes, ginger cake and cookies and Sammy's Valentines day cupcakes and cookies. I must say that they were all delicious, well done girls. I've recently been informed that we raised over £80 for the Psychology Society's funds, so that's a tremendous double bonus and the bake sale was officially a success.
I spent the afternoon in the psychology basement in a CyberPsychology workshop with the wonderful Dr. Chris Fullwood and the rest of the group of course. The workshop was about the psychology of blogging. The first half of the session consisted of a lecture about what type of people and why people blog. Surprisingly I was the only person in the room (minus Dr F) who had ever kept a blog, but this possibly made the session more interesting for me than it was for the others. In the second half of the session we had to browse blogs on www.blog.com, play with demographics in the search feature and read users profiles and blog entries and answer some questions based on the theories we had discussed in the lecture part of the session. Some of the blogs that we came across were rather strange. My friend Kevin came across a blog about narrow boating and the best places to travel in narrow boats. I found a blog by a 21 year old female who constantly talked about what clothes she had recently bought, a blog by a 72 year old woman who liked to blog about places she had been and include pictures of nice buildings, which I found kind of cute, a blog by an 88 year old guy who just ranted on about the Guardian, which was pretty amusing and a more serious blog by a guy who was suffering with HIV and wanted to seek online support and share his experiences. But the most awesome blog we found between us was a blog by a cat called Figgity, well we assume that it's the cat's owner that keeps the blog but it's from the cat's point of view, it's pretty awesome stuff.
Since I got home I haven't really done that much, to be honest I feel rather tired now. I might just grab a coffee and settle down for the night.
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