Rufus Hound look-alike, Acting, Thematic Analysis and Chips in The Bus Station (amongst other things)

I've just got home from my afternoon at university, despite my hour and half (compared to the usual hour) long journey home I'm in a pretty good mood. As usual I took my time getting ready for university, so I didn't set out early as I originally intended. I got into university at about 2:25pm, just in time to meet my friends. As I was approaching university I saw the Rufus Hound look-alike that I occasionally see. I think he has something to do with the university, but I'm really unsure. Like an idiot I smiled at him as in to say "hello", he smiled back but then I felt like a complete idiot. I'm just glad that nobody who I knew was around at the time.

When I arrived in the university library Ollie was already there with a copy of the full script in his hands. We talked to each other for about five minutes before the others arrived. When the others arrived, we found a group study room on the second floor of the library and sat down to discuss filming the production. I met two other ladies who have roles in the production for the first time today and they're really friendly people. One of them studies drama and has the main role and the other studies media and communication studies (like my two friends) and plays the part of a buddy who supports the main character. For your information, I play the role of the main character's best friend, but I only appear in one of the scenes. Anyway, over running my tale, we've decided that we're actually going to film next week and my day for filming is on Wednesday. I have to go dressed as though I'm going out for the night as the scene I'm in is set just before the main character and her best friend go out drinking. Filming the production should be exciting because it's something different for me.

After the thirty minute discussion about the production, I decided to go to the first floor of the library and make some notes on how to conduct thematic analysis, something I've been meaning to do for a few weeks now, but kept putting off because qualitative analysis doesn't really excite me. Whilst reading and taking notes the method of analysis became a lot more clear and I actually started to enjoy the idea of doing some thematic analysis. I've found out that there are two types of thematic analysis, one type that is bottom-up and the other is theory-driven. To be honest I'm unsure which form of the analysis I will end up using because my focus-group discussion topics are somewhat theory-based but under-explored at the same time. I suppose this will become clear as I get to grips with the theory more, so I'll save you from my wondering mind for now. Either way the method of analysis involves writing on index cards, which is always fun (unless you're using them for revision of course .... in my opinion revision is NEVER fun). 

When I had finished my notes, I looked at the clock on my phone and it was around twenty past four, so I returned my book and started walking to the bus stand, knowing that I had just missed the direct bus to my house and therefore would have to catch two buses home. I got to the bus stand just as the bus into my town had pulled up. I got onto the bus but it was a good seven minutes before the bus left. I arrived in town at about 5:15pm and decided to get chips before I headed towards the bus station. I ate my chips in the bus station and waited about half an hour for the next bus, which made me a bit angry as the bus is supposed to arrive every ten minutes. I finally got home at about 6:20pm and checked my email straight away, as I didn't check it mid-afternoon like I usually do. I had received a number of emails: one from a friend who told me that my old email address is sending out emails with strange-looking web links in them, she was warning me that it was a virus and to contact the Hotmail team (I shall look into this tomorrow) and three emails regarding cyberpsychology. One stated that the lecturer that we were supposed to have for the next four weeks won't be able to take us for our next three (weekly) lectures due to unforseen circumstances, so there has been a slight change to the module structure. Instead of having a lecture on Monday we are required to contribute to an online discussion about efficacy of online therapy, I'm rather looking forward to taking part in this task. For the other two session that she is unable to teach us, the module leader is taking the lectures but presenting them on slightly different topics. The other two emails regarding cyberpsychology were two notifications, one making me aware that a new discussion topic had been posted and one notifying me that my lecturer had wrote an entry on the new topic. At about 6:30pm I started writing this blog, and as you can see, now I've finished haha.