I'm quite busy with my work. Just did a class presentation on depression and anxiety... I'm glad it's over. It was quite depressing to do it at first. Somehow it wasn't so fun to do this presentation. I guess it's because the friend I was doing it with was
super stress about scoring well 'cos she didn't do so well in the 1st semester and needs the marks. So many things were tiring about this presention... She wanted so many group meetings that I didn't have time to do my own speech write-ups. She expected me to come up with ideas for audience participation but basically pushed down all my ideas, and didn't come up with any of her own. *Depressing* She asked me to do the animations for her slides/ add picutres the day before the presentation... *anxious* I said no to the pictures and the animation was fine in the end. it was just a small thing, but I was a bit peeved with her.
I think I did alright in the end. Some people thought it was good I think. ^^
Though I think I learnt something bad about my friend. She always needs to double check very basic things that she knows already, so draining. (e.g. how are you going to write your speech?) She's also too scared to do the hard topics for the presentation. (e.g. can you do the models? (which basically have no papers on them) can you do treatments? (which have too many biological stuff which are hard to understand)) And I suspect she'll take credit for stuff she didn't do if she can. Maybe I'm being sensitive.. you be the judge. Usually, all of you know, I'm too blur to feel offended by people, but time.. well.. after class, this lady comes up to us, and asks for the slides with quotes on depression and anxiety that we showed during the break (my idea, my 2.5hours of work). My friend said ok, she'll email the quotes to her. Which is strange 'cos the qoutes are on my iPod, and she had to get it off me later. And she never once gave the credit to me, who's just standing next to her. It was as if I wasn't there the whole time they were talking to each other.
My bible study group is moving into Fenner. It's strange, 2 guys, one jap, one chinese aus, moved into Fenner just last week. No one knew about each other, and it's such a strange time of the year for students to be moving house. I wonder what's happening...
I have no idea when I'm going back to Singapore or when my thesis is due. I'm trying to get 2 to 4.5 weeks of extension for my thesis.. I hope things work out for me.. Please pray.. I really need more time. Now, when everyone has results all ready, and typed out 3/4 of their thesis, I'm only just starting 'cos my data just came back last week. This week will be burnt just doing data cleaning.. i.e. finding and pulling out all the questionnaires with weird responses and figuring out if it's just a typo error. With 2419 questionnaire, this isn't easy. And in the end I might not get the results I want. *tears*
I miss you all. Sorry I haven't talked to guys in a while.
lots of love,
Desiree
love, think_orange
8:35 PM
