I now have positive proof that graduate school is driving us all (slowly?) insane. This was the IM away message from a woman in my class ( Read more... )

Tip of the day (for anyone wanting to become a psychologist): If you have a client who is dissatisfied in their marriage, and then later brings up concerns about their sexual identity, don't just assume that the sexual identity 'issues' are an expression of their unhappiness. Just don't. Because then you'll be violating the APA Ethics Code, and I ( Read more... )

Well, I had a lovely Thanksgiving, two of them in fact. We had a "practice Thanksgiving" at my school, where one of my classmates invited us all over the Saturday before Thanksgiving and we had a lovely dinner. *Way* too much food of course, but it's nice to know that we're all such good cooks. :) I was terribly irked, however, as our oven ( Read more... )

Good: Home internet connection working again ( Read more... )

Well, my first midterm in graduate school is over. And I survived. I spent over 4 hours writing, but it appears that the worst casualty is a small blister on my thumb from holding my pen tightly. I do think it went okay, there wasn't anything on the exam that I was totally flummoxed by. It’s kinda funny, there were a number of things that I had ( Read more... )

So I’m feeling terribly accomplished because I have a yummy batch of brownies in the oven. Mind you, baking was supposed to be my reward after finishing writing up my report for the assessment I did last week which I haven’t *quite* finished...But in my defense, I didn’t want to start the brownies so late that I would have to stay up to let them ( Read more... )

I'm not exactly sure what this means. This is the first Canadian Thanksgiving in 3 years that I haven't celebrated, and the only Canadian I now have daily contact with is (slightly) sick and away from her family, and is thus not doing much for Thanksgiving. I feel like it should mean *something*, but I'm not sure what ( Read more... )

So, after not posting for quite awhile, I’m getting back into the land of LJ. To make a long story short(er ( Read more... )

Okay, this is it. The computer is going off to cool down in order to be packed into boxes. I won't have steady internet for awhile - have a good couple of weeks everyone!

Why does this not come as a great shock to me?

( My Inner Child )