The bright side of obssession

Well my "issues" may have gotten me some extra credit, although probably not. Today in my statistics class we were in the computer lab, using SPSS to calculate something involving students’ guesses of how many calories a pineapple had. The guesses had been collected in class at a different time. My teacher then said "so I'm sure by now some curious individual has already looked this up." Amazingly enough nobody had. He then said "Ok for extra credit, somebody look this up. So then everybody scrambled to be the first. For some reason everyone was just googling it. That was a pretty dumb plan. People also didn't seem to understand the difference between a pineapple and a cup of chopped pineapple. I went to nutri-facts.com. Even with all of my typos, and having to fix them, I still raised my hand to volunteer this figure, which was necessary for what we were doing, 231 calories. For some reason, then my Professor said, "Wow that was fast". Apparently nobody was aware of any calorie counting web sites, in my class of over 35.

Well It finally Happened

So my group presented on Monday. I think I was "boring", which is the only thing our presentations are graded on. I'm not sure how I could have been anything else. All I was supposed to talk about was Alfred Adler's mundane personal life. Of course my group members had better things to talk about because they got to do his theories and his influence.

We did the follow-up activity today. One of my group members made this elaborate wheel out of some wood and a bicycle wheel among other things, to play wheel of fortune on. It was impressive but I doubt it will effect our grades. I suppose this is somehow supposed to make up for her repeatedly flaking out and taking away our day off. We each brought in candy for the activity. I brought in Mary Janes. I was going to bring in peanut chews but the store didn't have them and Mary Janes were so much cheaper then everything else. The students got to pick their candy when they got a letter right and at the end all the candy was passed around. Almost nobody wanted Mary Janes. Guess which group member took home all the remaining candy that all three of us had brought in. I’ll give you a hint. It wasn't me.


Apparently my group didn't have the biggest flake. The group that presented on Wednesday consisted of two people and one of them didn't show up. Although I expected that to happen in my group, amazingly enough it didn't. I was sure queen of the flakes would not show up the day of the presentation and then be on campus anyway. The guy who had to present alone was assigned Karen Horney. I was surprised when he actually pronounced her name correctly. About two thirds of his presentation consisted of talking about how ugly she was. That was similar to the presentation about Anna Freud. So far there have been two presentations about female theorists and three about male theorists. In all three of the presentations about male theorists, appearances were never mentioned. As I've already said, how ugly the female theorists were was the majority of both of those presentations.

Friday is a "study day". It's a day off right before the midterms are supposed to start, though a lot of teachers have been having theirs soon because they think it's wrong for students to have a whole extra day off to study for midterms. Some teachers have also tried to get the school to get rid of "study days", but surprisingly they have not succeeded. We get one "study day" a year. Not one a semester, one a year. I was looking forward to staying home on Friday, being home when my mom isn't, being able to shower and do laundry without getting yelled at for it. And of course, I was looking forward to having more time to do my homework and study for the remaining midterm, when my boyfriend could actually help me. This is especially true since last weekend I barely got to see him at all, since his weekend was taken up almost entirely by some event at temple that he wanted to go to because Chuck Pennacchio was there. Friday is they day my group has decided to reschedule the dry run for the presentation. By the way, my group member who flaked out repeatedly (other times I haven't written about) never once even apologized at all.

So today was supposed to be the day my group did the dry run of the presentation after class. The problems was one of my group members was not in class and the other problem was the entire thing was on her laptop. So my other group member and I just decided that, since neither of us had received an email from her, that we would just call it a day and hope we could reschedule it. I still stayed on campus because I had a class several hours later. I went to another building across campus because the library is there (the loudest room on campus but it's where the computers and chairs are). As I walked into the library, the group member who hadn't been to class was there. She told me that she didn't go to class because she was too sick. She asked me if the other group member was there. I told her He was there but I had no idea if he had left since we thought she was absent. So we both emailed him telling him what had happened but that was the last I heard from either of them.
Now is being too sick to go to class but not too sick to go to school crazy? Am I crazy? She could have at least emailed us ahead of time to let us know about this.

Today's presentation was about Carl Jung. Each group is supposed to be experts on their assigned theorist. The group that went today Pronounced Jung phonetically and defined an introvert as somebody who is charismatic, violent and feels no remorse. Ok for those of you who haven't take psychology 101, It's pronounced like young. I think most people have some understanding of what an introvert is, at least that it's not synonymous with a sociopath. I'm not sure who I'm clarifying this for since, as I've mentioned before nobody reads this. By the way, this class had prerequisites.

Lately I've been hearing a lot about people going away to college and feeling alienated. When I hear this all I think is, welcome to my world. I need friends who are on the spectrum. I say this because NT’s just seem to want to go to parties. A party is about the last thing I'd ever want to go to. It's noisy. Everyone wants to mingle so you can never really have a meaningful conversation with anyone. There is all this food that I can't eat for multiple reasons. NT’s also all seem to have a ton of friends already and expect me to, and the fact that I don't, is treated like a sin as grievous as mass murder. I don't think I'm going to get many more friends in the big blue room. Even with online friends, it seems like I'm always the last priority. I don't just mean behind school and work, I'd expect to be behind them. I mean I'm always behind every other friend of any kind, on thqueueue. They respond to every other email that they get long before they even consider mine. I can say this without fear of getting anyone mad at me because I seriously doubt anyone ever reads this damn thing.