1. Car door broken. Occy strapped together to be able to drive.

2. RAAF won't allow me on to change cars as Alex not there to sign me in and my pass has expired (my fault...)

3. I left my phone at home.

4. I have to finish work this afternoon, and be back in town by 5:45 to pick up a child from an interstate train. Which means I need to go home to get my phone.

Well, the year is progressing.

I've done well in my offender profiling course, and expect to come very close to jagging a HD - which was never the expectation in this one. My essay/lit review on female serial killers was well received and got me a 90%. I just have to see how I fared on the final take home exam, which was a profile of the West Memphis 3 homicides. I expect I did very well.

Counselling exam last week went well, but have no idea how doing in the subject overall. Be surprised if looking at HD, but you never know. No feedback all semester has left us all in the dark. Should be a comfortable Distinction either way.

Ethics left me with a distinction overall, struggled a bit with the subject as it often wasn't clear what the outcomes were supposed to be, and reading it wrong made it difficult. The lecturer, lucille, was brilliant though. Probably the most enjoyable subject that we had workshops for.

Crime Analysis - apparently I took the wrong tack, and will get a pass for the assignment worth 60%, so hopefully end up with a credit overall, which is fine for the crime subjects. Esp. if offset by the HD in offender profiling.

Multivariate Statistics was a bit of a drag, and was only meant to be a .5 subject, but had as much if not more workload than other subjects. Extreme pickiness was the order of the day, but I should finish with either solid Distinction or borderline HD.

My thesis - we don't get a mark for this one on the way through I don't think, even though it was a 1.5 weighting this semester. It is coming along well, and I hope to achieve a HD for it at the end of the year. I have nearly finished the intro and method sections, and will start the work on the results section very shortly. I'd like it finished by end of August, and especially to put as much time in as possible in the semester break.

Oh, and I am working about three days/week at the moment. Life is nuts.

On Scout Camp.


Jon has put up a rope between one tent and another.

(straight faces)

Scout: Hey Jon, is that a washing line?

Jon: No, It's a drying line.


Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh. I have to live with this!

I'm doing a profiling course at the moment, and you may remember that I have had a passing interest in the case for many years. And now I got to profile it!

My profile inside the cut.

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I'm pretty excited - I've got a topic I can get my teeth into. Lots of research to pull everything together, but going to be a real hoot.

My supervisor is well regarded, http://expertguide.com.au/!ProfessorPeterTerry!_2356.aspx and seems to be a really nice guy to boot. He's head of the psych department.

To top it off, my best study-buddy has been accepted by the same supervisor. Yay!

The topic - in general - is "Meta-analysis of effects of psychological variables in sport and/or exercise" – and the three sub-topics are :

1. Effectiveness of imagery in sport and exercise;
2. Effectiveness of goal-setting in sport and exercise;
3. Psychological benefits of exercise.

Not fussy about which one I get.

http://psych.sci.usq.edu.au/resources/honours/Terry%20Project%201-3.pdf

I thought I'd give 12of12 a go.

So here's 12 photos of my day today, the 12th of February. The idea is to take pics of the day, every 12th of the month.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=17091&l=998be&id=542972932

I meant to take some in the city as I had an exam today. And it went really well, especially since I neglected to study for it.

12 of the finest double-entendres that have been aired on British TV & Radio.

1. Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator - 'And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing!'

2. New Zealand Rugby Commentator - 'Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.'

3. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator - 'This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.'

4. Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - 'Ah, isn't that nice.. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew.'

5. US PGA Commentator - 'One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them ..... Oh my god!! What have I just said??'

6. Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: 'You'd eat beaver if you could get it.'

7. A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, 'So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?' Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!

8. Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: 'Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.'

9. Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said: 'There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this.'

10. Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports: 'Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets.'

11. Michael Buerk on watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked:
'They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts.'

12. Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: 'Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.'

Back in Adelaide.

I got accepted to a few uni's, but have decided to stick with USQ, my 'home' university.

This means 4 trips to toowoomba (2000km away) this year. The first is in late February.

I have booked the flights for that trip - guess that means I have committed.

Been a long while since I posted anything.

I'm in Tasmania for christmas.

Departing 1 Jan 08.

Got accepted into USQ for honours, which I will probably accept.

Also applied for Adelaide, which I hope to be accepted into, but will take USQ.

I have an exam tomorrow.

Then I have completed my Bachelor of Science (Psych).

Yay!!

Then, just another three years to actually be a psychologist...

Still, it feels pretty cool to have this first goal so close, and scary at the same time, as it means I'll very likely be changing universities for my honours year - internal local rather than distance interstate.

Spoke to the honours coordinator at Adelaide Uni today, and my chances of getting in there look very good, as long as I get my results to them in time.

Yay!

Thanks to kyliemoore for posting about digi scrapping long enough, that when digital scrapbook day came around, I found a few minutes and had a bash.

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I see eclipse tin - I think geocache.

Others appear to have other thoughts - they use them for scrapping.

http://www.gibbs.net.au/ryn/scrap/eclipse-tin-instructions.pdf

Enjoy!

Got marks back today for RMB assignment, which was a tough one. A group assignment, but that is meant to mark us harder if we took that option. Worth 40% of final grade.

96%. Cannot believe it. Just thrilled.

The others in the group are equally thrilled!

Awesome.

Got some friends that need somewhere to live, so have been trying to purchase a small home for them. Finally managed to find something, and it looks like our offer has been accepted.

3 br brick home in Elizabeth Park.

Now we just have to the finance and all that stuff.

On Monday I submitted my honours applications, as entry to fourth year psych is competitive and not automatic.

Not completely sure where I'm going, or infact how the local universitites will take to a transfer, so I've had to hedge my bets.

My first preference is University of Adelaide (local).

Other apps have gone to:

University of South Australia (local)
University of Southern Queensland (my current uni - distance)
James Cook University (Townsville - distance).

So we'll see what comes back. I've got a strong GPA, so hopefully I'll be OK.

If you're on facebook, please add me as a friend (if you're not already....)!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=542972932

Catchya!

Cos kyliemoore did it.

What Your Favorite Color Blue Says About You:

Emotional --- Affected --- Sensitive Peaceful --- Tranquil --- Connected Spiritual --- Experimental --- Deep

I found this page while digging around, and thought it might be useful.

http://www.muhlenberg.edu/depts/psychology/Measures.html

Alex, my husband, turns 40 in a couple of weeks. So last night we had a bash for family and friends to celebrate. Was good fun. Went off well. Couple of pics to follow.

Funniest part was Alex and his brother Steve cooking the BBQ in their statue of David aprons that we bought back from Italy. The light can play tricks with your eyes.