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Jul. 11th, 2011 08:32 amHave a bit of a cold, or maybe a sinus infection. A combination of the stress and probably also the smog I'm breathing all the time here.
BTW, I can't reply to any comments on my last entry since I friendslocked it. And I can't sign in. So like, I can't even see it. Good job, me.
Today was obnoxious. I was planning to input the surveys we've been accumulating, and the professor gave me his laptop, which has the SPSS program on it. Except...he'd never even opened it, and hadn't filled out the license verification or whatever, which was in Chinese so I couldn't even attempt to do it. When Ying brought the computer back to him and told him the problem, he sent her back and told her he didn't know what that was, so she had to try to do it! BTW, this is not a language issue, he speaks Mandarin better than Ying does being a native speaker (her primary language is Cantonese). Finally we convinced him that since we don't have the goddamn license code none of us can do this for him, and he actually has to get his shit together and do this.
He also never saved the file I sent him to his computer, so I'll have to re-tabulate the whole survey from scratch, but w/e, that's just like 20 minutes of work.
So then he sent us to do surveys around campus. After doing so for about ten minutes a professor from the school came over to tell us off; apparently we need written permission to do that. ALKJFSDLJFDSJ
He managed to get us that, at least, and we did about 80 surveys today, plus Ying scored us some interviews. A lot of the students really did want to practice their English with us (when the Prof said that we thought it was just another of his awkward turtle ideas) and even if I thanked them in Chinese they would respond in English.
Had a really vivid and frightening sleep paralysis episode. Haven't had any caffeine in days. Must be the stress+being sick? And I was taking a nap, which I haven't done in a few months. Odd thing about it was it was while I was sleeping on my side, too; I usually only get them on my back.
TV here is interesting. A lot of the shows are dubbed over; Ying says this is because they require everybody on TV to speak academically perfect Mandarin, and if the actor doesn't, they have a better speaker dub over their voice.
Accidentally made my Sim a pervert. In my defense, I didn't realize the guy I was aggressively trying to get him to romance was a teenager. I probably should have figured this out when I wasn't actually given the option to perform romantic actions on him...
Solution: options - game options - teenager stage: 3 days.
Sim!Snape and Sim!Remus are getting along very well without me even helping them. Sim!Harry and Sim!Draco just had their first kiss. This is an accomplishment for me, since I recently realized that the entire time I had Sims 2, I never got two of my Sims to woohoo. This is because I usually jump between games too frequently because I have the attention span of a gnat.
BTW, I can't reply to any comments on my last entry since I friendslocked it. And I can't sign in. So like, I can't even see it. Good job, me.
Today was obnoxious. I was planning to input the surveys we've been accumulating, and the professor gave me his laptop, which has the SPSS program on it. Except...he'd never even opened it, and hadn't filled out the license verification or whatever, which was in Chinese so I couldn't even attempt to do it. When Ying brought the computer back to him and told him the problem, he sent her back and told her he didn't know what that was, so she had to try to do it! BTW, this is not a language issue, he speaks Mandarin better than Ying does being a native speaker (her primary language is Cantonese). Finally we convinced him that since we don't have the goddamn license code none of us can do this for him, and he actually has to get his shit together and do this.
He also never saved the file I sent him to his computer, so I'll have to re-tabulate the whole survey from scratch, but w/e, that's just like 20 minutes of work.
So then he sent us to do surveys around campus. After doing so for about ten minutes a professor from the school came over to tell us off; apparently we need written permission to do that. ALKJFSDLJFDSJ
He managed to get us that, at least, and we did about 80 surveys today, plus Ying scored us some interviews. A lot of the students really did want to practice their English with us (when the Prof said that we thought it was just another of his awkward turtle ideas) and even if I thanked them in Chinese they would respond in English.
Had a really vivid and frightening sleep paralysis episode. Haven't had any caffeine in days. Must be the stress+being sick? And I was taking a nap, which I haven't done in a few months. Odd thing about it was it was while I was sleeping on my side, too; I usually only get them on my back.
TV here is interesting. A lot of the shows are dubbed over; Ying says this is because they require everybody on TV to speak academically perfect Mandarin, and if the actor doesn't, they have a better speaker dub over their voice.
Accidentally made my Sim a pervert. In my defense, I didn't realize the guy I was aggressively trying to get him to romance was a teenager. I probably should have figured this out when I wasn't actually given the option to perform romantic actions on him...
Solution: options - game options - teenager stage: 3 days.
Sim!Snape and Sim!Remus are getting along very well without me even helping them. Sim!Harry and Sim!Draco just had their first kiss. This is an accomplishment for me, since I recently realized that the entire time I had Sims 2, I never got two of my Sims to woohoo. This is because I usually jump between games too frequently because I have the attention span of a gnat.
