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Hello! The last few days have been absolutely beautiful! The weather was nice in the 20°C area, but now, the temperature is going back to the late teens. Anyway, in case you were wondering why I haven't written an entry for a while, it was because I was invovled with school. I took this university summer school course. I believe that I mentioned it before somewhere on my website, but just to state it here, the course was Social Psychology. It ran Monday to Friday from 9 AM to noon. Even though it was a very demanding course, I thoroughly enjoyed it, because as you know by now, I am a huge psychology fanatic. I just can't get enough of it. Social Psychology is offered as a half year course, however, for summer school, all that work was jam packed into just 3 weeks!!! You can just image what kind of stress I was under, but strangely enough, I enjoyed the rush of adrenaline and the soaking up of all things psychological. Before, I knew that I wanted to become a psychologist, however, I wasn't sure which subdivision in psychology I would get into exactly. I knew that I didn't want to worry about a lot of biology like Clinical Psychology involves, nor did I want to get into any of its subdivisions of Abnormal Psychology or Personality Psychology. It was by the grace of God that I finally decided to take Social Psychology and see what it was about, even though I knew just the bare bones about it prior to enrolling. I enjoyed this course more than my Introduction to Psychology course. Why? This field involves interesting topics of how individuals interact with, influence, and relate to one another. It encompasses topics such as altruism, personal relationships, and other highly fascinating issues. There's intense research involved and I had to remember literally hundreds and hundreds of researchers, studies, and experiments. They were all interesting though. Now I'm almost certain that I want to specialize within the Social Psychology field. Now I must choose an even more specialized field of study within Social Psychology(ex. Altruism.) While I haven't figured out all the specifics, I know that I want to study something positive about human nature. This means that I'm crossing out studies such as those on aggression, disorders, abnormal behaviour, etc. I want to focus on what humans are doing well and how we can optimize our use of our talents. I want to study something that will make me feel better and take my mind off of the corruption and negativity in the world. Most of all, I want to help others realize their potential and know that happiness abounds in all directions; we just need to see the light. So, back to that Social Psychology summer course. My mark is made up of only 3 major components: An assignment (15%), a mid-term exam (35%), and a final exam (50%). The assignment was a cinch. All we had to do was find a social psychology scholarly journal (i.e. Nothing unacademic like Psychology Today Magazine or Times Magazine) It had to be a journal where professionals in the field submitted their studies and results to only after having their work sent through the peer review process to verify the credibility and accuracy of the experiment. We just had to basically read the article of our choice and then write a 2 paged report on it, all in the APA format. On that assignment, I scored 100%. Then, the mid-term exam consisted of 68 multiple choice questions and we had a time frame of 2 hours to complete it. I finished in 40 minutes and got 65 out of 68 questions correct. That's equivalent to 96%. I was quite pleased. Then, the final exam came and I was incredibly nervous, because it was worth half of my final mark. It could, as they say, "make or break you." It was judgment day...haha. On that exam, there were 80 multiple choice questions and 2 long essay questions. We had 3 hours to complete this one because it was so long. I took about 2.75 hours to finish it. I actually finished it rather quickly (but not carelessly) and spent the remainder of the time to just double check my answers. I didn't want to lose mistakes for "stupid mistakes." Anyway, we haven't gotten back the mark for my final exam nor my final mark for the course. I'm a little anxious and nervous. I hope that I do well. Now, I will speak of school no more, and will continue on to music. *Smile* Lately I've become hooked onto Avril Lavigne's songs on her "Let Go" album (to be released 2 days from now.) Her songs are really catchy and I'm going to buy her CD when it comes out, even though I've already downloaded all her songs off the internet. My favourites are "Anything But Ordinary," "Complicated," and "Things I'll Never Say." She is so talented and her vocal skills are amazing, especially (but not JUST) because she's only 17 years old. Also, another little tidbit is that she's from Ontario, Canada just like me!!! A lot of singers come from Britain (etc.) so it's quite refreshing to see another Canadian singer, and one so close to home!!!! Good for her! I hope she makes it big. She deserves to succeed, especially with all the hard work she's put in. On the Friday that just passed, I went to the mall to meet my boyfriend after he finished work. We were going to shop around for a dress shirt for him. Anyway, unfortunately and sadly, I was late more than 30 minutes. I felt extremely bad because he was sitting there on one of the benches for me, with a bouquet of red roses!!!! *Blush* Sometimes sorry just doesn't cut it. I felt like the worst girlfriend ever!!!!!!!!!!! Thankfully Danny (being the wonderful boyfriend he is) forgave me. We walked around the mall for a little bit and the strange thing is that I think that the mall doesn't excite me anymore. There's no bubble in the soda. It seemed as though nothing in the mall had changed except for the renovations. Anyway, so then Danny came over to my place and we watched some television. As if we couldn't get enough of each other, we saw each other again on Saturday for practically the entire day (10 AM to midnight.) Haha...I'm sure that one of these days he's going to get totally sick of me if he keeps on seeing me so much...haha...Hopefully not though. *Smile* Remember how I told you before that I was making those macrame friendship bracelets? Well now I've become hooked on making those raver-style plastic pony bead bracelets. They're so easy to make and they go so well with my funky t-shirts. I have a huge box full of plastic pony beads and those tri-beads in all different colours, transparencies, and glitter. I'm thinking about auctioning off the tri-beads on eBay.ca or something. I hardly use those anymore, and I'm sure that there's someone out there who would put them to good use. Also, I'm clearing out some things from my room and hopefully this summer I'll be able to sell them. My brother doesn't live with my parents and I anymore, but his room still holds all his stuff. Michael (my brother) and I are planning to sell some of his old comic books. They could probably get us a handsome price considering that they're all in super mint condition. Good grief, when he was younger and into comic books, he wouldn't even let me in the room while he read them! Haha...that's what kind of condition they were in. No one except him could TOUCH the comic book. Haha...silly isn't it? Okay, I have to go an eat something, so I'm going to abruptly end this entry. I will write again soon. This time I mean it. *Smirk* Since I have no more school and tons of free time, I have no more excuses to feed you.....hehe..except for my laziness of course, but shhhhhh. *Wink* Okay, take care and always remember to spread the sunshine! Byeeeee!!!!!! ~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-. TRIVIAL TIDBITS ABOUT ME: RIGHT NOW ~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-.~.*-. EYES: No eyeliner or mascara, just "makeup-less"!!! *gasp* NAILS: Au naturel and I'm not going to paint them for a while. I'm too lazy to right now. LIPS: Conditioned with "Shaklee Lip Protection SPF 15 Stick" HAIR: Blow-dried straight and coated with L'Oreal Studio FX Straightening Lotion THINKING ABOUT: What I should do for my summer vacation. I have so much spare time. *Sigh* 3 wonderful long months of relaxing....*Smile* I just love university...hehehehe WISHING: I stopped procrastinating and start learning how to sew with a machine already!!!!! This summer I want to make some cute Strawberry Shortcake bags from some nostalgic 1980's sheets that I found a long time ago. CONSUMING: Nothing. READING: Currently, I'm reading 2 books. One is called "Humor: The Psychology of Living Buoyantly" by Herbert M. Lefcourt. It's a fascinating book about humour -- note how I spell humour the Canadian way with a 'U'? -- The book is insightful and I like the way Lefcourt writes. The other book I'm reading is called "Invention By Design: How Engineers Get From Thought To Thing" by Henry Petroski. This book made me see engineers in a whole new light. I enjoy the way Petroski writes and currently, he's the only person I know who can write entire chapters on paper clips and pencil points!!! I know it sounds funny, but this guy can really write! To me, it didn't sound boring at all, because he makes you think deeper about all the work involved in engineering new products. You would think that writing more than 10 pages about paper clips would get stale, but somehow Petroski overcomes the obstacles. I'm trying to learn from his writing style and incorporate his eloquent style into my own. SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD: "Anything But Ordinary" and "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. These songs have yet to annoy me. I'm still singing them to myself and I am still butchering the CD I burned from the internet that included all her songs. SONG I'M LISTENING TO NOW: "Sk8er Boi" by guess who...haha...Avril Lavigne. I'm obsessed. 
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Sunday June 2nd, 2002. - 7:45 PM