Fear of becoming a Hypochondriac

I spend a good chunk of yesterday limping around and slowly straightening my knee because everytime I let it sit still for too long it started aching and then once I did get it straight it would "pop" and slowly start to feel better. Last night, I woke up twice almost in tears because I was having one of those muscle cramps in my calf muscle... first one leg then the other.

A bout of severe leg cramp may cause damage to the muscle. Fibres of the muscle may be torn due to the shear strength of the muscle contraction. If this happens the muscle will be painful for some time afterwards.

Earlier this week I spent the day somewhat motion sick because I was so dizzy. But thankfully the shaking has stopped.

Now for any of these things I could go to the doctor but on their own they are fairly harmless and could be result of any one event in the day. There is a fear in my head that a. I'm making it all up (psychosomatic) and 2. no one is going to be able to do anything for it anyways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondria

Anyways, Last night was the Google Cruise. It was beautiful and I think I managed a few good shots that I'll put up later tonight. But now I'm pretty tired today and found a whole bunch of work waiting for me when I got in this morning. Yippy.

Blogger Beta

Woo. New blogger beta, and I actually got access.

It's surprisingly not that different with small exceptions. The tool bar at the top has a post new button... and thats reason enough to upgrade for me. and there supposed to be a new way to change templates but if i do that I lose all the changes I've made already ... and I kinda like my page as it is so we'll see. If i get bored i'll work on changing the template.

If you can you should start a blog and try it out. http://www.blogger.com/start

Humm... and apperently the feed is somehow different, now my posts don't show up in GIntern. How odd.

Procrastinating again....

So I had the whole weekend off, Sean was working and the interns who are left were looking forward to a low profile weekend. I was thinking I would get some work done on my report and as many co-op students are starting to complain and the like its just more fun to procrastinate it. I have a good two weeks to do the report from start to finish and I should take that long if I'm doing my job right. (I also found out I can work on it at work) So instead this weekend I did a whole bunch of nothing and it was awesome! Last night we did all end up going to Google and watching some arrested development which was pretty funny. I haven't seen the first season in a long time.

Now I'm back at Panera. Sean should be done at 6 but theres a pretty big line up out the door and it doesn't look promising that he will be on time. No worries... I have my laptop and my DS I'm good for hours.

Titles Suck

So.
This morning I've bought a ticket home on Sept 3. Hopefully security calms down by then and it won't be massively delayed.
This morning I also paid fall tuition. It almost makes me feel like I haven't made any money this summer. (luckly I have two paychecks left)

Those are all my updates... Back to report writing...

Work Term Report Rant

So its been an odd week for me so far. My brain just doesn't want to function and when I try to work nothing comes out. I'm close to the end of my work term but relative to everyone else I still have a lot of time left. I'm not sure if I will get a new study again before I leave for home I haven't really asked. I'm currently working on finishing my last study and then working on my work term report for school.

I realized that I don't know if there is a good way to do my work term report that won't make me look foolish. For school, I know the level they are expecting and the amount of front end details that I will have to put in, such as,

"Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance."

However, I also know that this will be read by my mentor as well as the head of user experience research at Google. So either they will think I'm slow for dumbing it down so much OR I'm going to screw up and they are going to be like, what the heck!? this girl doesn't even know what usability is.

The interesting part is that I think my topic is going to be something that they are very interested in right now and will either a. love my ideas and implement them or b. be able to contradict everything I say with some journal that they read that I never heard of.

On an almost unrelated note, I'm considering graduate school, so I can get my master in HCI. The tricky part is I don't know anything about the processes and I haven't thought of schools yet. I'm looking for one of the programs that is geared towards industry and not towards phds. I've heard good things about CMU, GA Tech, and Stanford. For Canadian schools Calgary apperently has a good program. I need to do more research.

Going ons: Last night was the Google Dance, Friday is the company picnic, tonight is Vince and Brian's going away party. I'm addicited to Starbucks frappuccinos, and I have to book my flight soon.

Munday Morning Update

My brain refuses to function at the moment for any large tasks, such as for analysis of my lastest study. So I'm going to attempt to update my blog while I drink what will probably be the first of many coffees today.

The weekend was pretty decent, got to do some shopping bought a new pair of jeans that I needed pretty badly. Sean and I also got brand new DS Lites if you know what those are then yay, if you don't know then you will probably be making fun of me or lecturing me when you find out. Either way, we have them and are pretty excited!

Also on Saturday the group of us went to the Winchester Mystery House. Which was my recommendation to the group because Michelle told me I had to go. It was a pretty interesting, I felt very clostraphobic at times and found it pretty funny that they were setting this up as a great attraction that cost $20 for the tour but you don't get into the house without a tour guide. They also managed to force you through the gift shop about 4 times. There are some interesting pictures posted as well.

Thats about all I have to update about... going to get back to my coffee now.

They are gone....

I finally got fed up this afternoon and I bit off all my nails.

I'm going to soak the est of the manicure off tonight or tomorrow and I need to file the nails properly but MAN does it ever feel good to be able to type again. I swear i was typing at about half speed all week.

Feels nice.