I've decided that I'm really committed to blogging now, contributing to this blog in particular. So I thought I'd post a quick update before I get ready to go to university. By quick update, I probably mean I'll sit here for half an hour writing a load of nonsense, but I do tend to just go with the flow of things.
Yesterday was a funny day, as you know I hadn't slept the night before but I couldn't sleep yesterday either. I attempted to take a nap several times but kept waking up feeling fidgety and looking at my phone. In the end, I spent the day in bed but awake. The best thing about yesterday was downloading a game on my phone called "Abduction", basically to begin with you're a cow, your friends have been abducted by aliens and you have to jump on platforms of ground to reach the spaceship and rescue your friends. The levels get harder and as you progress you unlock other characters, currently I've unlocked a sheep and a kangaroo. I went to bed before 8pm last night and actually slept well.
This morning I woke up at about 8:30 meaning that I'd had more than 12 hours sleep, which is a good thing in this case, usually I moan if I sleep for more than nine hours. So far today I haven't done that much. I kept my 9 month old puppy (Charlie) company for a bit and then had scrambled egg on toast for my breakfast. So pretty much an average morning in all honesty. However a few thoughts came to mind this morning. When I got up my mom was watching this station on TV that basically just shows adverts of JML-type products, the station tends to advertise one product over and over again for about an hour. After watching the same advert about 5 times in a row my opinion changed on the product and I actually felt like purchasing the product, even though it wasn't something that I would want to use a lot (it was a steam powered mop). This experience left me wondering whether showing the same advert over and over again for a long time would actually influence someone to buy something that they didn't really want or need to begin with. Surely there are psychology papers about this topic. I shall look it up at some point in the next few days and add my findings to this blog. So if you're actually interested, watch this space.
Another thought comes from a friend's facebook status update earlier. My friend highlighted that (at the age of 21) she had suddenly realised that the music she listened to in college was actually quite bad and she was glad that she has grew out of it. I can honestly second my friend's thoughts here. Back in the days of college I used to listen to the likes of Hawthorne Heights and My Chemical Romance, as did my friend. It's left me wondering whether the particular genre of music (emo?) is something that you actually grow out of as you mature or if times have just moved on. My views lean towards actually growing out of listening to the type of music because it's strongly associated with a teen-subculture that people grow out of by their early twenties. I told you that this blog entry would be about nonsense didn't I? I also said that I would spend about thirty minutes blogging and I'm almost done this also, I'm kind of predictable in this sense.
I have clear goals to meet today as I want to get on track with my university work and stuff. I feel a late start to the day would do me best as I seem to work better after I've been out somewhere. My plans for today are as follows: If I get into university for about 1:30pm (or earlier) I plan to make some notes on how to carry out Thematic Analysis and return my textbook to the library before I get into the routine of keep renewing the book because I can't be bothered to read it and make notes. At 2:30pm I have a meeting about the drama project that I'm currently involved in, I suppose it's a rehearsal, but I have a very small part, so it's easy in terms of remembering my lines. When I arrive home I plan on doing some dissertation work, my gut feeling is that I won't do any Thematic Analysis today, but I'm going to write the introduction to the project, at the moment I have notes for the introduction that are just everywhere, so they need sorting out!!!!.
Have a nice day
Jodie x
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