And I can't even seem to remember a 10-item grocery list...

Hey y'all. Taking a break from 4.5 hours of research lab work and almost 2 hours of class to share the following link:

http://laurafreberg.com/blog/?p=417

Go to it, read it, watch the clip -- and the whole thing and actually pay attention to what they're saying (I seem to have trouble with this quite a bit myself)... and voila! You'll actually learn something new! I love it when that happens despite my grumbling and digging-in of heels.

It's about a savant named Stephen Wiltshire. Don't know what a "savant" is? Go look at the site!!! It's good!

Thank you Laura Freberg for enriching our minds and managing to have a sense of humor at the same time!

Should I even bother?

Hey there, campers. I'm baaaaaaaack!!! I don't think I'll be mentioning how much time elapses in between my posts anymore for there's just no point. I took a quarter off (I think most people who know about a pinkie toe's worth about me can attest to the fact that I was losing it...) to take care of health issues that I'd been putting on the back burner for over two years. And it was causing a blooming of other health problems for me (sort of a mushrooming effect, I'd say). So, a bone scan, a serious vacation, and some quality time learning to take care of myself later, I'm not all perfect and shiny, but I AM a lot better.

That research internship I was doing in the Summer of '08 taught me this: I DON'T, and I repeat (picture me screaming, and pitching a fit on the floor and banging my fists) DON'T LIKE TO ANALYZE DATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully I got my point across, but I think that internship was the straw that broke this camel's back.

BTW, I got an "A-" in the Memory and Cognition class I was taking. Apparently, I'm smarter than I like to give myself credit for...

So, now I'm doing the second half of that research internship as a requirement for my degree, but I've got a far better "job" this time: Community Service Coordinator for the mentoring program I had previously analyzed data for. I rock it, I think. As long as I report what I'm doing to the professor and Lead Mentor, I've pretty much got free reign to set my own agenda as long as I complete a set of tasks the professor gave me in the beginning. Cool beans.

The other two classes (after I serve my obligatory 12 hours a week in the lab) are my Behavioral Effects of Psychoactive Drugs and Multicultural Psychology classes. I've heard that professor who used to teach the Psychoactive Drugs class used to bring in a "box of drugs" to show as examples to the class (I'm assuming they weren't someone's blood pressure medication, if you know what I mean.) The current professor's pretty dry but she does come up with some off-the-wall stuff to talk about sometimes.

Anyways, gotta go, I got work to do. But I bet if you've read any previous posts on this blog, you already knew that.