Mencken Man to the rescue

Dear fellow classmates,
I am losing participation points because I can't figure out how to respond to shit posts like this 4 times a week:

This is very true that we have to have some sort of a starting point. I mean if we didn't have those that gave us what we have based all our therories on we would not have come as far as we have in the study of psychology.

We do have to have a a base point and it was a shame that some of it has been by trial and error at the expense of others. But even today we have those that are willing to be in study groups to help find answers to medical trials and to me these are the true pioneers that have paved the way for all of use to lean from.

because with out those willing to put their lives in test groups we would have to rely on what we find out using animal tests and some of those can not be true because all animals are the same make up as a human.

Sincerely, fuck you.

OMGBBQ

Note to all my fellow students, I'm tired of reading your juvenile posts and assignments. If you want to write like a 12-year-old girl texting her BFF's about how dreamy Edward is, that's fine, in your personal life. If you choose to do so in your academic work, then don't expect anyone to respect your answers. While you're at it, try also not copy/pasting from Yahoo answers or wikipedia, answer in COMPLETE sentences, answer the question, don't write 200 words about how your dog helped you discover your love of psychology.

Here's some excerpts of some of my favorites from this week.

Question: Think of as many major philosophers in the western tradition that were primary contributors to the formation of psychology as a formal discipline. From the list please choose a favorite. Discuss why he/she is your favorite!

Answer 1: I think that Ivan pavlov is very interesting, him and his experaments that he was doing to discover the digestive system and how it works and this helped him to discover much more.
Ivan Pavlov worked to unveil the secrets of the digestive system, he also studied what signals triggered related phenomena, such as the secretion of saliva. When a dog encounters food, saliva starts to pour from the salivary glands located in the back of its oral cavity. This saliva is needed in order to make the food easier to swallow. The fluid also contains enzymes that break down certain compounds in the food. In humans, for example, saliva contains the enzyme amylase, an effective processor of starch.

Answer 2: One of my favorite philosophers is Charles Darwin he strongly influenced our knowledge of life on Earth. His theory of evolution by natural selection explained where the diverse kinds of living things from and how they adapted to their environment. His theory was simple life on earth is the result of billions of years of adaptations to changing environments. This of course went again everything the church in the western world taught and his theory was and still is very controversial. His works influenced not only psychology but many other sciences such as zoology and anthropology. His way of thinking of evolution was the only theory that actually provided and scientific explanation of the human life.

There have been some decent answers, and I'm not saying mine are perfect, hardly, but I at least give a shit about sounding like a total retard.

Homey

I've been working.. lots and lots of working lately. Almost 40 hours for the last 4 weeks. Doesn't sound that hard but a lot of it has been being called in on my day off or taking other employee's shifts. Plus it's Christmas and the store has been a mess, people are slobs, I've been asking for an armed guard to watch my bead aisles. People steal so much!!

Also been getting to hang out with more people from work, awesome people. Princess is warming up to a couple of them. I took her out to Petsmart for the first time yesterday, she was nervous in the parking lot and when we stopped by Michael's to say hi, but then she was fine in Petsmart. Must be the food smells.

School starts up again next Wednesday, for 1 4-hour class then off again for 2 weeks. I could have finished the class by the time we get to the second day. Annoying.

Everyone has been getting sick, I'm trying really hard not to, but some days I get no sleep. Tonight will likely be one of those nights. I've got to write a paper for the first class and I don't have any days off till the day of the class. We're also open till 11pm all this week and I close 3 nights, which means getting home at almost midnight. It's been nice having some extra money though, since I was barely covering bills before. My great-aunt sent me a check to help me out and I used it to buy some bookshelves so I could unpack the boxes that have been sitting in the bedroom since August. That made me really happy :)

A co-worker of mine lives 4 houses away and her teen son was upset that I had no furniture so he grabbed a friend's love seat and brought it over one night. So the house is getting homey :) Looks awesome with the Christmas Tree up in the front window too :) Next week I'm going to Ikea to get some floor lamps for the living room and 2 extra bedrooms. Then maybe I'll start hanging some pictures.

My brother, D, wants me to come move to Colorado soon. He makes a good argument but even if I wanted to go asap I couldn't till this class is over at the end of January. Plus I have to figure out what to do with my stuff and my parents have to deal with the house. I dunno!

I've been eating this song alive lately: Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire.

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds: 5x09 Oh god. Such a sad episode. :*(

Snipers ruled the world.

Flashpoint: 3x09 I loved this episode. I liked that building, don't remember ever going inside it, just knew of it and passed by sometimes. The part I liked though was Sam. I don't often like him, but when he's in sniper mode I do. I've got a soft spot for the snipers. <3 <3 Marina <3 <3

Ding Dong..

Tonight was the last day of my first class. Our learning team presentations were due, 15 minutes on Ethics & Values and how it relates to career success. My group consisted of me, A and J. Neither one was very good about responding to messages, emails or phone calls. Or getting their work together in time, hell even if they did get it done in time, it wasn't very good and required lots of editing. For the presentation, A told me on Saturday that he had everything ready but his references and would post it on Sunday. By Monday night I hadn't heard from either A or J so I sent them both an email saying that if I didn't have A's section by 10am that I would be writing everything and they wouldn't get credit. I spoke to J on Monday and got most of his work set, but it took quite a bit of hand holding to get him to do his references in APA format as required. He originally didn't think it was a big deal that we didn't have A's work because he thought that the teacher had said that we wouldn't be penalized for group members lack of effort. Then I explained to him that while the individual group member wouldn't get the grade, if we only turn in half of a paper, we'd only get a 50% grade. Then he asked *ME* what *I* was going to do. *sigh*

So I ended up doing the work for A's section. Then when I got to class he was there and tried to turn his portion in to the teacher who sent him to J and I. We told him that we would let him say whatever he wanted at the end of the presentation but that we each did our research and were going to talk about our own parts. I'm so glad that class is over, I hope to never see some of those people again. Some were cool though and I'll be seeing the nicest of them, a married couple, in my next class. ++ they also live in my town so if we get to choose our own groups I know I want them, both because they do their work and it's good quality and because we can meet in person easier.

I have 2 weeks off till my next class, then 2 weeks off for Christmas. I don't work tomorrow so it'll be my first day off in a month that I don't have to spend all day doing school work, just chores :)

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America's Next Top Model: 13x12 Yay :) I'm pretty happy with the winner.

Criminal Minds: 5x08 Such a good episode, especially the ending.

Law & Order: SVU 11x09 Oh no, Olivia!

SYTYCD: 6x15 & 16.. Legacy was hot. Karen's solo was awesome, she'll definitely be in movies or something. I'm not disappointed by the results show either.

Bones: 5x08 Pops is cool, but the plot was thin.

Supernatural: 5x10 super episode. sad, apocalyptic, awesome. Poor Dean :/

The Mentalist: 2x08 OMG Cho lost it! Wow, what an episode. Can't wait for the next one.