Damned and Divine

Haha so cute. Just a random video. The pirate part at the end made me giggle. Tehe.

So for about the last 7 days, ive been doing nothing but my research report for Psychological Research Methodology I. From the moment i woke up/got home from uni till like 1-2am i was doing nothing but this report, slowly trudging through the unfamiliar and confusing waters (sounds alot like my first relationship lol) of statistical analysis. You cannot imagine the sense of achievement once i finally got my point-biserieal correlational coefficient result however (Which was 0.014, which if you’re interested meant that only 1.4% of the difference between the two levels of the independent variable in the experiment i did was actually related to my hypothesis >.> But that still meant the hypothesis was true to that tiny extent which was enough, and the null hypothesis wasn’t statistically viable because my P-value was 0.003 which means id only expect to see a difference 3 times out of every 1000 times the trial was repeated and i saw a difference 100% of the time in 164 trials). Anyway, if you understood any of that statistical jargon and haven’t done a statistics course before, im horrified because that means you must do statistics for fun.

I really love completing assignments and writing down my findings and stuff because it shows how much im actually learning from my university study, which isn’t easy to see everyday (having no uni friends or friends doing psychology/speech path means i never get to talk about psychology or speech pathology or anything that i devote most of my time to >.<).

Anyway its almost 2am so i should go to bed seeing as i have to be awake at 6:30am. Today i have my last Intro to Physiological and Cognitive psyc tute and lecture ever =O Next semester im doing Intro to Developmental and Clinical Psychology i think which will be quite different. I also have to hand this report in and pick up the details for my last research participation i have to do for credit for Psyc1020. So glad that research report is done. Next goal: Do well on finals which my first one is on the 13th of June, then the 19th and 20th and 25th. Im happy with how they spaced out, except for psyc1040 and psyc1020 being on consecutive days =S Oh well ill have to deal. They put an exam on the 13th as well as i said, which is Pride day in Brisbane, how rude of them to put an exam on pride day, so i won’t be able to go to that, maybe next year i can go with my future boyfriend (im hopeful, 12 months is hopefully long enough to suceed in that endeavour.) Its ok though because now im going to lunch with Paige at some nice restaurant for her birthday after my exam ^_^

I shall leave you with a cool video i found of Tarja doing what id describe as an almost jazz version of I walk Alone and The Reign on piano by herself. (Warning: Its pretty cool.)

And also this illustrative photo of what i was like when i finished my research report (Haha, i really do have a Tarja photo for every occasion):

PS: Drop me a line via comment if your reading this, even if its a Hi, or a fullstop. Ill still write here regardless of if anybody reads it because i like doing it, but im just interested to see if anyone is. So far im at 11 comments:11 spam lol! NIIIIGGGHHT!

Anyways, relatively alot has been happening this weekend, infact its been fairly social! Also i had  a dream on Thursday night that shook me up alot for days which  will get to talking about in another post. Oh and i also got a car which im picking up/signing papers for this week, my first car, should have my license in a few weeks as well, exciting stuff!

So lets begin with Friday. I was supposed to have work 1:30-3:30 but my shift was cancelled without me being notified for the 4th week in a row (Luckily a co-worker called me on Thursday night wanting to change a shift and asked me if i could work Friday for her and i was like but im already working Friday and she was like gah they must have changed shit around again anyway back into Friday) so i mulled around allday, then went to the movies with friends in the evening to see Xmen Origins: Wolverwine which was acceptable. I wore black jeans, black t-shirt and a black leather jacket, smooth right?

Saturday i had work from 11:30-6:00, i got a text midway through the day asking me to come round to a friends place for drinks with some people from my old school crew, so i went there at about 9:00 with Breige, did many shots, danced to Britney Spears as is customary for i and her, then Kara went at my hair with a GHD (which a photo will be posted below,  it was like 1am this morning though and ive slept on it early this morning and this afternoon so its gone wavier, im going to go over it again with my straightener in the morning before Uni). So then Breige left along with the few other girls there, leaving just us guys. So we watched Sex-Drive unrated version, love that movie, then i went to bed with Robert in a single bed which is fucked and sinks in the middle and tries to swallow you like some chasm from hell so we spent the entire night fighting to stay not on top of each other, when the sun came up i gave up on sleep and proceeded home where i had a shower and went kaplunk on my bed for a few hours.  So yea hecticness!

Im staying on the Gold Coast this week since i have to pick up my car and sign the paperwork and such, no early morning on Wednesday anymore because Spch1100 tutes aren’t on anymore and we have a Monday lecture at 2pm instead for the rest of the semester which is awesome because otherwise id be waiting for Linguistics to start at 4pm and doing nothing.

Plans for my hair are coming along nicely as well. I found a better salon in Brissy that does the proper 100% authentic Japanese Bio-Ionic straightening process, i went in when i was shopping with Paige last Wednesday and got a quote. The guy was very very knowledgeable about the processes and i could tell hes done it alot, in fact he was doing one while i was there haha. So he looked through my hair at its healthiness and length and thickness and such and told me that since i have virgin hair (never coloured it or anything) the straightening will take much better and be easier to apply, so he quoted me $400 since my hair is just long enough to get it done, and they usually start at $600 for like female long hair. So $400 sounds reasonable to me, considering the other place said $500 and they were shit and using a fake product. So once i pay my car insurance and have some spare cash ill go back and find out how much the regrowth touch ups are etc. then make an appointment and get it done. Mum said i look like 2 years older with straight hair haha so thats a plus (as long as its only 2 years). Can’t believe how much of a coincidence it was that i found the place, they are on like Adelaide street i think and its just a small door and staircase leading to the salon, and i saw the sign advertising bio-ionics outside and i was like checking that out!

Peace hombres! Until sometime this week, much love!

My hair straightened. (I know you have no contrast yet
so you dont know what its like when its curly but, maybe one day =P)

So i do a course called “Linguistics: The Structure of Words and Sentences” at the moment, and my lecture on monday was partly about Semantic Language Extension so like when a words meaning changes over time. One of the examples she used was the word “Gay’ which as we all know has changed from meaning ‘happy’ to meaning ‘happy’ and ‘homosexual’ to meaning just ‘homosexual’ and now ‘homosexual’ and ‘pathetic’ (or just negative connotations, ie. “That’s so Gay!”). I didn’t know this but it also has had ALOT more meanings, and this is just a few:

• In 1896 the US slang expression ‘get gay’ meant to show off.
• 1637 was the first use of gay to mean ‘addicted to social pleasures and dissipation’.
• Following on from the previous one, in 1800’s gay was adapted to apply to a woman to mean a prostitute.

I knew it had a few meanings, but i didn’t know about any of those haha.

Tarja ‘Getting Gay’ in Concert.

So today was pretty chill, ive been having trouble getting out of bed for uni see, so i tried this new thing called going to bed earlier, anyway it kind of worked, my alarm went off at 7:20 as its supposed to so i can catch the 8:27 train (i like having time to get ready and eat breakfast at a reasonable pace while watching an episode of Rocko’s Modern Life which if you weren’t a kid in the 90’s was this awesome Australian kids cartoon about a talking wallaby and his crazy adventures with his cow friend Heffer. It has so many sexual connotations and unsaid things that only older people get so its still good now, anyway moving on) so yea it went off at 7:20, and i went back to bed with the mindset of “Well ill lay down for another 10 minutes with my eyes open adjusting to being awake” anyway someone getting out of bed upstairs woke me up at 7:45 and i was like shiiiit have to hurry, so ran for the shower in my underwear (luckily i was the only one downstairs since everyone else’s bedrooms are upstairs) so i get to the shower, turn it on and jump in, only problem is the person waking up that woke me up was Rick and we both jump for the shower as soon as we wake up, so hes in the shower upstairs and for some reason it overwrites the downstairs hot water, i conceded defeat and let him shower first. Its coming into winter here so it was freezing when i stepped out >.<

Next up: Weet-bix and the simpsons this morning instead of Rocko. Get to the train station which is just next door as the train pulls up, perfect timing. Anyway had Intro to Psyc: Physiological and Cognitive Psyc today, tute was v. good, did a fun experiment thing, and the lecture was on attention & memory which was also good. Came home, made a canned spaghetti on toast lunch and have been listening to music and doing some work the rest of today. Stupid weather foiled my washing plans though, after id washed all of my towels (meaning i have no others to dry myself with until they’re dry) it decided “Lol i think ill go overcast now so Reece has to drip dry.”

Plans for tonight? Hmm more work hopefully (or World of Warcraft with my brother if i get distracted), organising dinner since Fae is out, Pizza maybe? And then sleep early for tomorrow. Speech disorders tute in the morning then going to the city with Paige to see The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and get lunch.

What i listened to today:
On the way to uni: Wisdom of Wind – Tarja, Half of Century Child.
In between tute and lecture: Some tracks from The Classical Conspiracy which Epica just released on the 9th of this month (which i will hopefully be reviewing on Thursday/Friday)
On the way back here: Some Tarot tracks then half of Dark Passion Play.
While here: Most of The Divine Conspiracy, a few more tracks from The Classical Conspiracy, For the Sake of Revenge (Sonata Arctica’s live DVD/CD) and now im listening to Soilwork’s album Stabbing the Drama.

My face when my shower suddenly became ice cold.

Well there probably won’t be anything actually on here until Thursday when i get back to the Gold Coast and have some free time so, hang tight Of course my first post had to be in English and Finnish because i love the language so much =D If only i had the spare time to learn it… maybe one day, hopefully my neuralplasticity hasn’t degenerated too much by then haha.

(No ei todennäköisesti ole mitään itse täällä vasta torstaina, kun saan takaisin Gold Coast ja on jonkin verran vapaa-aikaa niin, hengaile tiukka. Tietenkin minun ensimmäinen viesti oli pitänyt olla Englanti ja Suomi, koska rakastan kieltä paljon = D Jos vain minulla oli vapaa-aika oppia se … ehkä jonain päivänä, toivottavasti minun neuralplasticity ei ole synnyttäneet liikaa sitten haha.)

Tarja Stressing Out,  much like i am about my Psychological Research Methodology Research Report due soonish.