Video iPods

If you're having a rough day at the office - I highly recommend loading "Office Space" onto a video iPod. Even if you can't actually watch the screen - often listening to the dialogue alone can keep you going throughout the day. Those lines like "PC-load letter, what the fuck does that mean?" can turn around an afternoon of finding out that your elegantly designed queue of processes was wiped out by someone else for no reason.

In any case, it's official -- Greece, England, Yale, Houston, and Louisville. It should be quite a ride, although I was recently thinking that it would have been fun to work on a cruise ship for one cycle. The advantage to doing what I'm going to be doing is that it actually pertains to my future job goals and dreams. It's of course my hope that the summer travels and new job environments will both restore my interest in certain aspects of psychology as well as some of the self-esteem that's been slowly sapped away in recent months.

The hardest part of traveling is probably going to be how to get my SCUBA gear to Greece. There's absolutely no way that I'm going over there without doing some shipwreck and ruins diving. Particularly since I'm only about 20 hours away from my necessary Dive Master prerequisites. I'm pretty sure that the rules of diving are listed in a much earlier post - so I'll just share the story of going diving at Stingray city with my brother. See, stingrays really like calamari, and who can blame them - I like it too. The goal at stingray city is to feed the sting rays the calamari without accidently rubbing it on yourself. If you're unfortunate (like my brother) to touch the food and then touch your arm, you will quickly find a stingray showing it's affection for your arm - the result will be a huge hickey!

It's crunch time with lots of projects wrapping up, the thesis now in draft number nine, and finals about to come due. I feel behind even though I know I'm right where I should be in all of it. I've been debating what classes to take in the fall. I'm settled on Structural Equation Modeling and some readings with my mentor. I'm torn between a social psychology class and an I/O psych class - alternatively I could take a Human Factors class at Rice. Maybe some yummy psycho-pharmacology in the schedule too. Still no word on how I'm getting funding next fall. Hopefully info on that at some point!