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lemanya1. Did you know I have zero RL friends on LJ? Talk about a secret life...
2. I'm working on some new stuff. But it's slow going. Which is related to...
3. My mind feels a little drugged lately. If I'm not tired/sleeping I'm either at Uni or working, so there's this permanent kind of state where I feel so out of it. My brain just isn't functioning, not even for the normal things- let alone creative things.
4. This semester, I'm taking three psychology classes and one Writing class. The level of talent in this class is very dubious (as was noted by a conversation with a classmate [who complimented my work when I read it out loud!]), and it's obvious that they've really come to learn stuff rather than have a bit of fun writing stuff. Which reminds me that I have to have a first draft done by the end of the week...
The assignment (1000 words, fiction) isn't due till the following week, but every class contains this element of 'workshopping', which basically we read out our work to the class. This week we're meant to have a draft finished, cause the entire two and a half hours of time is dedicated to an editing kind of workshop on each other's works.
Which reminds me. Should I post up the stuff I've written with the class?
5. I'm sick of meeting guys, particularly good looking guys, and finding out they've got girlfriends. And then there was those two memorable times that yes, they were gay, you may end all hope now.
2. I'm working on some new stuff. But it's slow going. Which is related to...
3. My mind feels a little drugged lately. If I'm not tired/sleeping I'm either at Uni or working, so there's this permanent kind of state where I feel so out of it. My brain just isn't functioning, not even for the normal things- let alone creative things.
4. This semester, I'm taking three psychology classes and one Writing class. The level of talent in this class is very dubious (as was noted by a conversation with a classmate [who complimented my work when I read it out loud!]), and it's obvious that they've really come to learn stuff rather than have a bit of fun writing stuff. Which reminds me that I have to have a first draft done by the end of the week...
The assignment (1000 words, fiction) isn't due till the following week, but every class contains this element of 'workshopping', which basically we read out our work to the class. This week we're meant to have a draft finished, cause the entire two and a half hours of time is dedicated to an editing kind of workshop on each other's works.
Which reminds me. Should I post up the stuff I've written with the class?
5. I'm sick of meeting guys, particularly good looking guys, and finding out they've got girlfriends. And then there was those two memorable times that yes, they were gay, you may end all hope now.
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Date: 2010-08-29 06:13 am (UTC)2. It is a little bit exciting! But all only a third finished. There's like- four of them? or something, and I have ideas on how to maybe get the abandoned BigBang going again, so perhaps my head's too cluttered to focus on one? I do have the uni work to do as well...
3. I've tried meditation, but my house is a little too noisy. I might try the park or something.
4. I'm taking a couple I didn't want to take this semester, but due to a really wierd enrolling problem, the system wouldn't let me enrol in the one's I wanted... but thankfully, the "unwanted" classes are actually turning out pretty okay, so my irritation is soothed. I'm taking "Motivation and Emotion", which is going round in circles because my lecturer is boring, a little bit daft and treating us like we don't know anything. There's actually a bit of gossip that says the reason he doesn't teach in the personality subjects anymore is because he has none of his own- and I can see why that's going round.
I'm also taking Human Learning, and the main focus is on condition (both classical and operant). Since I learnt almost everything there is to know with conditioning while I was studying teaching, this subject is mostly cakewalk, and I just have to understand the experiments and things like that.
The final one is Cognitive Processes, which is brilliant in theory, but there's like five different topics they're covering in about 11 weeks, so it's a whole lot of information in an hour's worth of lecture, and always with the phrase "but this is only a really small aspect of just one concept". We had an entire one hour lecture and two hour tutorial dedicated to just "focused covert attention" because it's that huge. I don't know why they don't just start a new subject for it.
We do have to read aloud, but not every lesson. This upcoming week is special, because of the assessment. It's voluntary reading,but we were expected to have done the homework regardless, and it was hoped that everyone would have had a go at 'workshopping' before this week. Consequently, I've only read out loud once, though I prepared myself for two other times which never happened.
5. Oh, sweetie. I'm so sorry. I did however, fall for one of my best friends who then (after telling me I was his kind of girl) got himself a girlfriend before the end of the month. Sigh. life.
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Date: 2010-08-29 03:51 pm (UTC)Sounds like you need a break. :-\
Psychology ftw! And you should totally post what you've written! :)
Bleh. I just recently broke up with my boyfriend 'cause he never. fucking. called.
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Date: 2010-08-30 04:37 am (UTC)There'd be too many questions. (Incest? Fanfiction? Kink?)
PRECISELY. And everyone sees me as this really nice, sweet, innocent kind of person, so coming out and saying 'kinky brotherly boy sex? yes please' is not a notion I really want to entertain. Some of my friends know I'm on LJ, and they know I read stories... they just don't know what kind, and that they're fanfic.
I probably do need a break, but it's only just week six of uni, meaning I had a break a month and a half ago (and three more weeks until mid semster break!) and I don't have the money to go anywhere (which really is what I need) or anywhere to go. I am however, taking a couple of weekends off work this month- so there's a few nights I can kick back and just forget about everthing for a bit.
Yay psychology! It's pretty awesome, though I find myself really critiquing the classes a lot. There's a lot of useless crap they're teaching us at the moment.
I was talking to someone the other day about the 'meeting boys issue', and mentioned it was getting to the point were I was seriously considering just becoming a lesbian and she (who had broken up with her boyfriend recently for the same reason as you) said that was the best strategy she'd heard all year. I swear, the dramas we have over men are unbelievable.
btw: icon adoration!