.- quantum uncertainty -.

Can someone explain to me why I have these crazy urges to:

- write
- shave my legs
- play The Sims

every single time I have a test or paper or something? Because it never, ever fails.

I haven't even played The Sims in like, 4 years. I do shave my legs more regularly than that, but it's this compulsion to do so as a method of procrastination. WTF?

Was just reading the news and read a story about the Prime Minister going to Afghanistan. And I was surprised when they referred to him as "Harper". It's been nearly two months and I still cannot believe that Stephen Harper is my Prime Minister.

Sigh.

I've slept for 3.5 hours and I'm working to finish this stupid response by 1, so I can be half an hour late to class. A nap is in order, after class.

Also, my stomach is moderately upset.

That is all.

In the last hour, instead of working on my assignment for Research Design & Analysis, I have...

turned off my desktop machine, picked up the monitor and set it on the floor.

cleaned the top of my desk.

dragged my speakers back to the desk.

placed my laptop (which is my primary computer) on the desk for the first time in months.

updated my copy of iTunes.

And lots more stuff, but those are the highlights.

It's weird. I like the class, I like what I'm learning in the class, but I loathe what I have to do FOR the class.

Sigh.

I'm not planning on sleeping tonight. I'm going to get this done for 8am, leave the house, go to school, drop off the assignment, come back by 9ish, sleep until 2:30, go to Italian, Creative Process, then come home and sleep a reasonable amount of time.

I cannot believe I'm still working on something for Research Methods that was due on June 16th. (I did hand it in, partly done, but I seem to have mostly avoided it for the last two months.)

Probably not sleeping tonight. Would be nice to nap from 11am-4pm or so, though.

As my last official act of procrastination for the night:

( A 5 Things Meme )

Back to work. (Had a regular shift at the job tonight. 51 minutes on the phone with an 83 year old retired nurse does NOT a fun evening make. Stupid shingles.)

I'm working on Research Methods, since I got my first methodology assignment back and got an 87%, thankyouverymuch, and am now working on the second methodology assignment. This includes the following sections:

Theory
Research Question
Hypothesis
Population
Study Population
Sampling Unit
Sampling Frame
Sample Size
Sampling Approach
Justification (for approach to data collection)
Limitations
Analysis
Draft of Data Collection System (Questionnaire/survey)

In the first part, which is where I am, I have to discuss how my independent and dependent variables causally relate. And you know what I'm discovering? That it can be argued that people could lie to others online for ANY REASON. People can either be more or less honest in the hopes of community acceptance, for instance, whereas, when I drew up my schematic of interrelation of variables, I figured they'd be more dishonest to try to gain community acceptance, but that isn't necessarily the case. I'm more honest when meeting new people online, for instance, because what if I lie and I get to know them and OMG, they find out I lied?

I hope my data collection proves that people aren't as huge liars as I'm thinking they could be.

(This post brought to you in part by the fact that JB is visiting her parents and I can't call her to gripe about this, procrastination and the letters R, M and A+, along with a healthy dose of delusion.)

(Dammit, I need an RM icon.)

(ETA: There. That's better.)