HA! OK!

TODAY:
* 6-page paper on interpersonal therapy techniques and experience

* Short (multiple choice) easy quiz on ... something. I think it's supposed to cover anxiety disorders, schizophrenic disorders, and phobias (which are officially also anxiety disorders)


NEXT WEEK:
* 3-5 page outline for Ethics (I'm researching ethical issues surrounding the scope of practice for marriage and family therapists) as well as a 5min. presentation of said outline.

* 5-10min. presentation on SOMETHING. I suppose the issue there is picking the topic.

Also, you should assume that none of that has even been started yet.

MUST WRITE PAPER NOW. ARGH.

Finals! AAAAAAAH!

occhiblu: Very well; carry on.

Y'know you can E me stuff if nobody else is around to proofread, 'k? I'm gentler with that than all the CMCPO bluster might convey.

Hey, I know: Presentation on time management? Or procrastination?

casarkos: AAAAAAAH aye.

bilabial: *ahem*

You need to up the evil glares and foot tapping. THIS PAPER WILL NOT WRITE ITSELF, YOU KNOW!!!

I appreciate the proofing offer, but I'm actually ok with that (professional writer & editor for 10 years or so now, writing for teachers who don't seem to care so much about proper grammar and spelling, which I actually find disheartening).

The presentation needs to be on a topic that I will eventually turn into a paper, and it needs to be on some psychological problem that responds well to talk therapy. For some reason I'm feeling like I want to write about some form of anxiety (she says as she continues to bite her nails to the quick and frantically eat cashews), but I need to narrow it down.

Actually, maybe some sort of compulsive behavior like overeating? Hmmm....

Anyway, further suggestions from anyone are welcome.

oh, well...(resumes tapping foot, crosses arms across chest, begins absolutely starin' holes at occhiblu; monitor begins to smolder in two spots...)

QUIT DOPING OFF AND LOOKING AT METACHAT.

TURN TO AND WRITE THAT #)#@#$%*!! PAPER, NOW!!

Eeep! Yessir, PaxDigita sir! *crawls away*

I was being good. I hadn't turned the computer on since last night, thus avoiding the internets. I read a whole book.

I, uh, have 7 pages due in, er, 40 minutes. They are not written.

But I will talk to the professor and see about emailing them to her for Monday. She likes me, and might take pity.

I will notify you if she does not. I will be crying if that's the case, but it's a class that's offered every term, and I would actually like to take it with another professor (I felt she wasn't prepared for lectures, but that's totally apart from and no reason for my own slacking).

I also have to write 4 pages comparing Animal Farm (ok, that's the book I read last night/this morning, nothing to gloat about) to Thomas More's Utopia that I will turn in on Monday.

LAST SENTENCE!!!

That is, I'm on the last sentence. Woo!

Let's see how many times I can use "therefore," shall we?

On preview: Go, bilabial, go! Get those extensions! Woo! :)

Also, my class from 5 to whenever tonight might have internet connection. If you see me on here, make me cry.

We have ten presentations left to watch in class, these kids are not for the brevity, so each has been running half hour or so. Some 45 minutes. The very first presentation was over an hour long.

If they can keep it down to 10 minutes each we'll be out at around 8. If not, it'll be an all nighter in the lecture hall and I'll miss the reading at Books and Books tonight.

Done with the paper! Now must study anxiety! Oh, the irony!

bilabial, I *hate* the tendency of my classmates to blather on waaaay too long. We've had "10 minute" presentation go on for 45 minutes. The 1hr. group presentations often run 2hr. And then it's a vicious circle, because no one wants to look like a slacker, so if the first group runs an hour long, the second group feels like they have to, too... argh.

exactly, and here I am spending a little more quality time with the internet, since there's no way I'm cranking out 7 pages in 10 minutes. But I will skim the relevant research and find out how I'm supposed to cite works for my paper as soon as I leave class. The library is open till 1.

Will check in tomorrow, Bunnies. Thanks for the loves.

Hee, my last 10-minute presentation ran just about five minutes. Further, the class expected a droning on the subject of colonial quilting and weaving, and were astonished and delighted that I related them to sexual mores and activity in colonial communities. (I didn't plan it; that's just where the research led.)

My classmates loved me, for like a whole week.

Hee. I would have loved you, too.

My ego is large enough and my grades high enough that I do try to limit my own presentations, because I'm not horribly worried about the GPA consequences. I gave a presentation last week, and a classmate came up to me afterward and said, "Your presentation was great! Really brief!" Heh.

Of course, that was the presentation that included a dramatic reading from Fear of Flying, so apparently we've both learned that sex *does* sell!

Wheeee! No more class attendance for 10 days. Extension granted. Just added cash to my copy card so I can print some of the relevant research (or perhaps just the citation pages? We'll see.) and get from the outline stage to the writing stage. I did the outline during the presentations, which blessedly we had to cut short because my professor had another class after ours. Unfortunately that meant at least 7 people get no grade for the presentation part of the class, glad I was knowledgeable enough about my topic to present.

Does anyone wants to read 5 to 7 pages about infantilization and disembodiment of women in American print advertising, especially my defense of why that classifies as myth? Feel free to let me know and I'll email you a copy and all I ask is a light response, especially if it sucks. With any luck I'll be done with a first draft in, uh, let's say 4 hours.

I won't be citing any actual advertising texts, just anthropology.

That sounds interesting.... when would you need a response by? I'm in class tonight, possibly a bit free tomorrow afternoon. Feel free to send it my way if that timing works for you. (And that's "afternoon" West Coast time; I can't remember where you are.)

occhiblu, don't "sir" me; I work for a livin' too.

bilabial, ever see /Boxing Helena/? If not...don't. I'd been wondering where you were.

Y'all are doing some interesting-sounding stuff, but it's reminding me why I don't really want to sit in a classroom again anytime soon.

Sigh. I actually feel the same way. The reading is interesting, the classroom part of it... not so much. Most of the time, anyway. I'm buoyed by the knowledge that this is a professional program, that I will be ready to actually practice what I'm learning in a year and a half.

And I've been tracking lately the "ma'am"s vs. "miss"s that I've been getting. I seem to be at the threshold on that one... "Sir" at least doesn't betray how old the speaker perceives you as being. :)