Today (well yesterday now) went pretty well overall. I managed to finalise my focus-group discussion transcripts and then spent the afternoon preparing and writing some of the introduction to my dissertation. I read some pretty interesting stuff and fell back in love with my project. I suppose taking a break from statistics was the best idea that I've had in a while. Although I'm generally a fan of statistics I do admit that sometimes they can be confusing at first and when you feel lost all it takes is a break from them and then a fresh look and it all makes sense, that's my theory anyway. The reading I did today put a lot of things regarding my project back into perspective, the joys of studying deception actually came back and as a result of this The most nerdy things cheer me up. If I'm ever sad and you want to buy me a gift, don't buy me flowers (I have hayfever) find me a good research paper to read or a scientific book.
Earlier I had the brain wave to find out how much it would cost to get my dissertation professionally printed and plastic binded. To be honest I wish I hadn't bothered. I went to a well recognised website (I think it was print express) and requested a quote for a document roughly 70 A4 pages long, on white paper and ring binded. I also specified that I would be needing at least 2 copies (preferably 3). I got an email telling me that it would cost £33 for one copy, £60 for two copies and £120 for five copies. I suddenly realised that it would be cheaper to print it myself and pay for ring binding at university (or else where depending on how it all pans out). I then decided to purchase 500 sheets of A4 paper from Amazon (costing me £5.80) and two ink cartridges from Cartridge Monkey (costing me £20). This will print at least 2 copies of my dissertation (which is the number of copies I have to hand in) and it's only cost me £25 + plastic binding costs, even if it's £5 it's still only cost me £30 for two or three copies of my dissertation, saving me a minimum of £27 and a maximum of £93. I suppose I liked the idea of someone doing all of the printing for me, so it would just arrive in the post and I could just go and hand it in, hassle free, but i refuse to pay that much.
I've just realised that my thought processes are quite disorganised at the moment, there is no structure or flow to the things I'm thinking about. I'm actually thinking about the way that I'm thinking, this is called introspection, a research method used in cognitive psychology that was discontinued for various ethical reasons. The mere mention of the word ethics reminds me that I have an assignment to write about ethics. I should probably start it soon as it has to be in the day after my dissertation, so I'll probably end up forgetting all about it because of stress and panic. First of all, I need to actually decide which question of the six options I'm going to answer. I might stick with the question about online behaviour providing I'm able to answer the question in a more focussed manner than the question itself suggests to answer it. If not, there's a perfectly good question about psychologists in the media, I suppose this would give me another chance to slag off the Daily Mail using literature to support my view point, pretty much like the first assignment of the ethics module. I'm sure I'll answer the most appropriate question to the best of my ability and hand it in on time. I'm just sharing this with you because I'm bored yet I'm thinking quite deeply.
I should honestly go to sleep soon, there are lots of things I want to do over the weekend and I'm just not going to get everything done if all I want to do is sleep. I'm kind of in a relaxed state at the moment, my house is as silent as it can be, my bed in comfy but I just don't want to sleep. Insomnia tends to kick in when I have lots of work to do. This is probably because I spend all day working and then I want some free time for myself, so I sacrifice sleeping. Another plausible reason is that my brain just won't shut down properly. Either way, I'm awake now and I don't particularly like it.
It's also kind of horrible to constantly have a guy on your mind. It's even worse that there's nothing that I can do about my feelings for this guy for several reasons at the moment. I won't elaborate too much as my blog is public and a lot less private than I actually realise when I'm writing my posts. But, this guy is perfect in my eyes personality and looks-wise. I'm hoping that things will get a bit better in the future. Lets just see where the future takes me eh?
I think I'm going to wrap this blog up now, before it turns into some kind of vicious rant about the Daily Mail, Andy Coulson or how sociology is not a science. These are just a few of my favourite rants to have. Maybe I should write some rant posts soon. It would certainly make my blog more interesting and add a bit of personality to it. But obviously, I can only post rants when I actually feel like it.
So, goodbye for now
Jodie
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