I lied.
Dr. K didn’t ask for our research topics today – argh! – so I’m not doing the research concerning celebrity worship. I came across a study yesterday involving the difference in sleep and dreams between liberals and conservatives. I didn’t think I’d be allowed to research this further because we’re supposed to have read at least 10 related articles, and there aren’t any others on this specific topic. When I mentioned it to her today, however, she became very excited and suggested I make this my project. She says I can pull other dream and sleep studies as overall comparisons or contributions to Dr. Bulkeley’s findings; I’m going to see if I can either replicate her results or tackle it from a different perspective or by using different methods. I have until the end of the month to work out these details.
It kind of sucks that I spent all day yesterday trying to come up with a topic; I can think of things I would rather have been doing! And I was up late trying to formulate a hypothesis and write it up to be turned in today. I got much less sleep than I should have. Still, I’m finally excited about this stupid research project!
As for getting up early, that was not without issues. Having stayed up late to write that paragraph, I then tried to print it. I have a wireless connection to my printer and, as it turns out, that got screwed up the other day along with my lost internet connection. I was almost late to class because I couldn’t get my printer to work! I gave up and stored the topic paper on a flash drive to print at school, hoping that she would accept it after class when I had a chance to get to the library to print it out. Hurrah for not having to do that!
The upshot was that it was later than normal when I left for school. I have to drive east, into the rising sun. Did anybody else unfortunate enough to have to be up at the butt crack of dawn see how huge it was this morning? It was so monumental that it looked like one of those shots of the sun rising over the horizon in Africa! I would still rather have been in bed than up to see it but, since I had to be up, it was a pretty spectacular reward.
