The Effect of the Three Good Things Exercise on Mood, Pain Cognition and Pain Tolerance ( Read more... )

Yrghtah!!@#!@#$!@$$^&%^&!!!!! ... Statistical Analysis.

So today was pretty much a waste. I arrived at school this morning and came to the shocking realization that the many huge blocks of ice I had dropped in my ice bath to cool it down for the morning had melted entirely and had thus violated some of the laws of thermodynamics. Realizing that this is impossible I switched the blame to El-Diablo who ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was up at 5:30AM and went to bed at 2:00AM. 17 of those hours were pretty much solid work. I was up at 6:45 this morning and ran eight straight hours of experiments. I am going to excuse myself for not efficiently using my last three hours at my computer lab job to do data entry. Damn I need some food and rest and possibly beer.

Oh No I'm starting to feel ill again:(

I hate stopwatches. Its probably mostly because I'm a clutz. I have to manage two stopwatches at th same time in my thesis stopping one when the participant says they feel that a cold ice bath feels painful and the other when they pull their hand out of the water. I usually try to write the times down right away but sometimes the participant can't ( Read more... )

I thought I was going to have a perfect attendance in my experiments today but the last dude didn't show. Seven out of eight is not bad though. I've run 11 sessions this week so far. Yesterday kind of sucked. I only ran four because I had two 'no shows' and no one signed up for the last slot in the day. I now realize that after about 4 sessions I'm ( Read more... )

Geez I've been super sick for the past few days. I've missed three days of work and even missed my NSERC celebration lunch yesterday. I'm feeling a bit better today so I'm going to actually leave my apartment and head off to the university. Luckily my only real lecture this semester is an intro philosophy class. I've missed a bunch of lectures now ( Read more... )

This would almost make me become a republican:)

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Japanese Birdlady just sang me a sort of grunge rock version "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". I told her if Economics doesn't work out for her she can always have a good singing career.