Hello everyone, first of all, I'm sorry for not blogging for over 24 hours as I've been ill. I do aim to keep my posts regular (preferably daily) but sometimes have difficulty in doing this. I'd also like to give myself a pat on the back for actually blogging regularly for a whole month. I've never kept a detailed blog or diary for more than about two weeks. So, Well done me =]
As I mentioned, yesterday I felt ill. I had back and chest pains and therefore had to have a day away from university and studying in general. This is a rarity, the last I had a day off university ill was over a year ago. As I decided that doing nothing was best yesterday, I decided to watch some TV and listen to the radio. I started out by catching up with the Mark Watson Live thing on BBC Radio Four. I must say that I really appreciate Mark Watson and the first show of the series was brilliant, however I missed out on the interactivity of the show, I was rather looking forward to tweeting relevant tweets as I was watching the show, however, when it was aired live I was actually ill in bed ... asleep. I then caught up with Eastenders and 10pm Live. Eastenders has gone a bit down hill lately (in my opinion) but I tend to watch it as everyone else watches it, it's more of a conformity thing that actually getting stuck in dramatic story lines. 10pm is as good as I expected, I've only just started catching up with the series (we're on episode 6 already). I do keep meaning to watch it as it's broadcast live but some how I just forget. On Monday I was told to catch up with the series (by Dr F) and I didn't think it was such a bad idea, so that I did. Although I've downloaded the series so far as a podcast as I'm usually too busy to sit watching TV for hours on end. Last night I watched the latest episode of Eastenders and Coming of Age. Again, what I said about Monday's Eastenders applies to last nights episode and Coming of Age was as funny as ever.
Today I went back to reality. Although I still felt slightly ill I decided to go into my lecture anyway. There's only so many hours of sitting at home watching TV that I can take, I wanted to see my friends and get my brain thinking properly again. I headed out to university at about 9:30 and listened to episode one of 10pm Live via my iPod on the bus. As much as I was tempted, I managed not to laugh out loud (literally) whilst I was travelling. When I got into town I saw my friend Sandeep and we walked to the lecture theatre together whilst have a good old natter. Today's lecture wasn't the most exciting, it was about career planning and CV preparation and because I know what I want to do, the whole session was pretty pointless. We were asked to take a test (using pen and paper) to find out what type of job we should look for, I suppose this is because a psychology degree provides you with such a wide range of skills and career opportunities. Unsurprisingly the first type of job it suggest was a job in science, i.e. research and the second type of job it suggested was to work in human relations and it listed psychologist as a possible job. Overall I'm not shocked by the results I got. I'm clearly a psychologist who is passionate about research. However, Sandeep's results weren't as accurate as mine, the test suggested a job in business for her. After the lecture, Sandeep and I headed towards the library to work on our dissertations. However, for some reason my SPSS output sheet wouldn't open on the university computers, well it would open but not show the tables, it just said "processing" and then didn't show them. I decided to work on my introduction instead but realised that I didn't have any decent research papers on my USB drive, so I decided to call it a day (at university) and got the bus home. On the way home I listened to episode 2 of 10pm Live. When I got home, I ate a cheese omlette, and a chocolate moose. Now I plan on returning to my work.
Catch you later,
Jodie
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