Group work

Yesterday I had my first mid-term of the semester. It was for my abnormal psych class. I spent the day studying and at 4:30pm I left for class. It was raining the whole way to school but once I pulled into the parking lot it started to pour. It takes me like 5 mins to get from my car to the building my class is in and by the time I got there I was pretty soaked. But it could have been worse, it’s a good thing I had my rain boots and umbrella. Class started at 5:30 and we had till 7pm to finish our test, most people finished in about 40 mins so we had to wait till 7pm to go back to class to meet with our groups.
The group I am in consists of 5 girls and our topic is stress. I have the task of keeping in contact with everyone and updating everyone on times to meet up. My group members are pretty unique. I am the youngest at 19 and the second youngest is 21. One of the girls in my group is 38 but she seriously looks 28, and she has a son. Another group member who I believe is in her late 30s used to be severely depressed but she had Electric shock treatment or ECT and is now a lot better. She seems really happy all the time. My last group member is 26 and she has two kids. One is 6 the other is 2 or 3. This girl has gone through a lot. She hasn’t seen her family in 10+ yrs has lived on the streets and has used every drug under the sun almost. She really has turned her life around. She is taking care of her kids, has an apartment and is in school. One thing I like about my group is that everyone seems willing to put in the effort to do a good job. Our first out of class meeting is on Friday and 5:30pm. We are only meeting for like 30 mins just to touch base.
Today I have my speech class and I haven’t done my homework so that’s up next.

A lazy day

Yesterday got off to a pretty crappy start. I woke up at 5:30am to the sound of my dad getting ready for work and my brother banging on my door asking to borrow my phone charger because he left his at his girlfriend’s house. I tried to fall back asleep but it took a good hour of playing Tetris on my Droid to finally knock me back out. I finally woke up at sometime after 10am, and so started a very uneventful day.
I should have worked on several study guides I have for my abnormal psych class but I didn’t feel like it. I was going to go do some shopping but it was raining pretty hard and I hate driving when it is pouring rain. It rarely rains in SoCal and when it does people either love it or they hate it. I love the rain, always have. What I hate is how some people drive like lunatics when it rains. You would think they would be more careful since the streets are wet and you can’t see very well but nope, I guess some people are adrenaline junkies.
I spent pretty much the whole day watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent. I have to say I was really bummed when I found out Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe will be leaving the show, they are the only reason I watched. I also read today that Christopher Meloni will be leaving Law and Order SVU. I can’t imagine the show without him.
The only thing I did today was cook dinner. I made teriyaki salmon with vegetable stir fry. Ever since my parents split I am the one who cooks dinner for my dad, brother and myself. It took a long time for me to get the hang of cooking but I think I have finally got the basics down.
I also decided to keep this blog anonymous. I know this will probably never be read by more than a handful of people, but I still feel more comfortable knowing even if someone I know reads this they won’t know it’s me. Unless of course they are able to put together all the small facts I write here.