Whilst this is my first blog entry for this blog, I have kept blogs before (admittedly not kept them well, but kept them never the less) and the intended audience for my blog are people who already know me, by all means if you don't know me and enjoy reading my blog, drop me a few comments or follow me on Twitter. It's always nice to know that people appreciate what I'm doing. But my point is, that I'm not going to bother writing a blog entry to introduce myself, I've done this many times in the past and then felt like I'm writing to an audience who expect something special from me. The aim of this blog is to document lived experience, and other random crap that comes to mind.
This morning I woke up at around 6:30am but just didn't want to get out of bed, so in the end I started playing around with my phone whilst still half asleep. My phone is a smartphone that operates on Android by the way, so there's always plenty to do on it, not like the old days of Nokia 3310's when it was quite entertaining to play Snake. I was messing around in the app store and decided to download the free Amazon Kindle app, within no time I was looking at the free books, I even read a sample of two chapters from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", I'm considering buying the full version of the book, I watched the one-off drama of it on BBC 4 just before Christmas and really enjoyed it. Dirk Gently is amazing in the sense that he has wacky methods for the detective work that he does, whilst I have no actual interest of wanting to be a detective myself I've always wanted to be like a fictitious detective, you know the type who have a logical explanation as to who done the crime instantly after being introduced to the case, pretty much like Sherlock Holmes or L from Death Note. Over running the tale, I think I should buy the book.
I was supposed to go into university today for a meeting for group work, for a module in cyberpsychology that I'm currently studying. Sadly one of my friends fell ill and had to stay in hospital over night, and I felt a bit under the weather myself, so I cancelled the meeting and scheduled it for Tuesday afternoon, meaning that I got the day off uni. I procrastinated for a few hours and then decided it was time to do some work. I decided it was a good time to start writing transcripts for the three 10-minute focus group discussion that I've carried out for my research project. I didn't realize that making transcripts was as time consuming and as physically painful as it ended up being. I do remember a lecturer telling me that transcription takes ten times longer than the actual audio recording itself, but for some reason I forgot and it came as a shock when it took me two hours to transcribe a ten minute discussion. I found documenting phrases like "ummm" and "like" quite strange as I'm not used to writing such utterances down, you don't really realize how different people talk to written English language until you transcribe a conversation. As you can see, I haven't done all that much today. Lets call this a sleepy-day.
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