January 24, 2012

  • Weighed Down

    So this week is the first week of me bringing my laptop to school. My 17 inch laptop is kind of heavy, and i usually carry around textbooks as well. Sometimes I carry just one and sometimes I carry 2. I also have a music folder and I carry around my purse. Today was the first day I got to try out carrying both of my Psychology textbooks PLUS my laptop, charger, and headphones. It was pretty heavy and I think I am going to need to get a regular backpack with 2 shoulder straps instead of one. I don't like the feeling of uneven pressure on my shoulders. One shoulder has no pressure and the other one has too much on it. I have also noticed that the pressure on my shoulder causes me headaches the way it presses. I'm going to have a to find a solution to this problem sooner or later.

     Today in psychology we started giving our group presentations. Before class I got a smoothie from Jamba Juice and got together with my group to put our research together. We did not give our presentation today, we are going to on Wednesday though. Other people did presentations on stuff like which gender chews the most gum, how often people eat out VS just cooking, and why people go on facebook. The group survey presentations were pretty interesting. I am looking forward to giving ours and seeing the rest. I will tell more about our study the day after tomorrow when we give it.

     We were given another chapter reading assignment, this one is extremely tricky because it talks a lot about biology of the mind and how the brain works and stuff like that. I am about half way through it and my brain is so fried. I'm probably going to read it again once I don't have to worry about HAVING to read it. I like to go at my own pace where reading is concerned.

     Anyway, other than this school was pretty fun today. I have to admit I fell asleep in dating and courtship today because I was up late yesterday finishing my share of my group project. I also have to admit I slept through my other class because of the same reason. I did not sleep in my psychology class obviously.

     Tonight for ward FHE (family home evening), we played games and had a lesson. I do not remember what the lesson was about, but the games were pretty fun. We played this game where we all picked a fruit, all different, and we would call out our fruit and then say the fruit of someone else and the process was repeated. The catch was that we could not show our teeth at all so things got pretty funny.  We played a similar game next, only it was with states and people had to say it fast because there was a person in the middle that would whack you with a pillow if you didn't answer fast enough. If you got whacked with the pillow you were the one who got to whack people next. My state was Florida, so for example if someone said Florida I would have to say someone else's state really fast like Utah for example. if I didn't say the state fast enough and I was whacked I would be the one with the pillow. Sadly I was never even called. No one seemed to remember Florida. 

     We had chocolate chip cookies for refreshments after we were done. I just went home after this and did a bit of homework and did stuff on the Internet after this.

     Wish I had more to tell. I have been really tired all day so my brain is kind of dead. I think I will just end here.

     Oh, I should probably add that the snow has stayed. I hope it stays for at least a few more days. I am really enjoying it.