[Leara]'s diary

670121  Link to this entry 
Written about Friday 2005-09-23
Written: (7001 days ago)
Next in thread: 670213

Who wants to write my psychology assignment for me? >.>

In less than 4 pages, APA(American Psychological Association) format, predict how you think Humans will have cognitively evolved by the year 200,000, make sure you can support your idea's through natural selection, and that none of them are cultural. 

That is basically what my paper is to be written on.

Sounds easy huh?

Now really THINK about it. It's how we evolve cognitively. It means internally, as in your mind and thought process. This means you must becareful to exclude all things cultural or you will lose marks. Meaning you can't write anything about evolving through technology...because thats artificial. Cybernetic implants? Genetic Engineering? Nope. Neither allowed. Even genetic engineering is artificial, and not natural.

If we want to write that the human race becomes more intelligent...how?

You have to differentiate between inherited intelligence through DNA, and learned intelligence. Someone naturally born smart scores 100% on a test. Someone born not smart, from non smart parents, also scores 100% because his intelligence is learned, he studied well and earns high marks despite not being born smart. If this individual goes on to pass his DNA on to offspring, they do NOT inherit his learned intelligence...they only get the non smart gene. Therefore humans can not evolve to become smarter through what their parents have learned. They can only achieve this through someone naturally smart bearing children with someone else who is also naturally smart to slowy make the next generations smarter and smarter, bit by bit.

So in order for your prediction that humans become more intelligent, you have to create a plausible scenerio where for some reason, smart people reproduce more that dumb people to pass on more of their DNA to the next generation.....chances are...dumb people aren't going to just choose to stop having children, so saying in your paper that smart people have more children than dumb ones isn't going to work. >.>

The scenerio you create doesn't have to be likely either. Someone last year handed in a paper on Aliens invading the Earth, and survival of the fittest that way, and apparently got a pretty good mark on it.

I have an idea for the topic I may write on...but I have to track down Chaston first and run it by him first to make sure I have the idea straight. The man gets a kick out of watching his students squirm when he makes their brains melt with science. He has admitted that he is a little evil. >.>

ARGH. Due freaking Wednesday. I don't wanna write the abstract either. Due the same day as my freaking art assignment too. >.> Still haven't taken pictures for that...I don't know where to go around here to get good ones. >.>

666797  Link to this entry 
Written about Saturday 2005-09-17
Written: (7007 days ago)

Hahahaha! This article is about some research my psychology and cognitive strategies teacher did. XD Theres even a clip, if you click it, click the thing saying your under 13, then you don't have to register to watch it. XD He showed us this in class, and thought it was rather amusing because for a few weeks he got a lot of media attention on a two page article he and some other guy wrote after some research. XD Seriously though, he's a cool professor, his classes are actually interesting and make you look forward to going. >.>

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392345&cat=1_7

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Written about Monday 2005-09-12
Written: (7012 days ago)
Next in thread: 665109, 666471

I have the flu/fever. I keep getting coldsweats, pains in my stomach, and wanting to just pass out. >.> I have class in the morning...then another class 5-7...which is my first stagecraft class, which I'll probaly be skipping, so I'll go to art, go get student loan sheets straightened out, then go home. >.> Hopefully I won't be dead by then.

660858  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2005-09-07
Written: (7017 days ago)
Next in thread: 660873

First day of college. >.> Though I'm listed as a VA student...I'm only doing 1 fucking art course...because I have to upgrade english they wouldn't put me into any of the other art courses that had writting, and conflicted with the english schedule...so I'll be doing more art next semester hopefully, and I don't even have a loan yet...don't know if I'll be able to get it or not either. V.V.

Schedule:

Monday:
9-11:50 ~ 2D Art & Design
5-6:50 ~ Stagecraft

Tuesday:
10-11:50 ~ Cognitive Strategies
12-12:50 ~ Basic Psychological Processes
3-4:50 ~ English 30
5-6:50 ~ Drama Laboratory

Wednesday:
9-11:50 ~ 2D Art & Design

Thursday:
11-11:50 ~ Cognitive Strategies
12-1:50 ~ Basic Psychological Processes
3-4:50 ~ English 30

Friday:
2-3:50 ~ English 30

Saturday:
10-12 ~ Drama Laboratory (I still have to talk to the teacher about getting out of this...I have no intentions of going to class Saturday mornings. >.> I'm not even sure what this class is...I know is goes along with my stagecraft...)

So....what kind of student am I again? >.>
Art? Or was is Performing Arts/Theatre, or Psychology? >.> Ack. I want more art courses.

...My orientation package came complete with a pretty red lubricated condom. XD

659183  Link to this entry 
Written about Sunday 2005-09-04
Written: (7020 days ago)
Next in thread: 659230, 660294

:O I had Japanese for dinner. First time ever. XD I ate at a place called Edo Japan, and had Chicken Yakisoba. O.O It was good. They didn't have ramen or sushi. >.> Theres another Japanese restaurant here somewhere though. Omg, the cute asian guys. >.> Mrow. Good looking guys in general. o.O Lots of 'em. X.X *dies*

I think I got looked at. o.O I never got looked at at home. And jeez, the girls dress skankier here too. >.> They look like hoes. >.>

We went to a superstore place to get groceries. And I guess since there is such a high population of asian's in west canada, they had a lot of asian foods, the noodles in what I had at the restaurant were u-don noodles, and we found some at the store. Lots of food items from different cultures. Sorry if i sound like a total clueless moron, but it's very different from where I'm from...it's like probaly 98% caucasian there, unlike here.

There are cool stores...couldn't really look or go in a lot of them today, I think we're going again tomorrow. So I'll get to look around. They had the manga series I was looking for. Except the volumes I actually don't have. >.>

My brother has no style or sense in interior design. This is the most bland looking apartment....I put out some of my ordaments, and candles(though I'm not allowed to light them. >.>) Just to make it look a bit better, and mom put out some pictures. O.O

Holy crap. The heat in town is nuts...ok, so it's a city...but it seems more like a large town, since the tallest buildings are the hotels...which arne't overly large. X.X I bet my back is burned.

Wee for having less than 2 hours sleep in the past 41 hours.

It was raining. It calls for lightning. >:D Apparently they get REAL thunder and lightning storms. And there was a huge full rainbow, with another faded out above. I have pictures. And pictures from the plane, but no current way of getting them on my brothers computer.

Also...Montreal is the most beautiful place I've ever seen. The sun was setting when we landed there, and mostly dark out when we took off(I never left the plane), so I got to see it all lite up, and Calgary was nice too, but I likes Montreal more, it was gorgeous, I wish my camera didn't suck at taking pics at night, I would have took some.

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Written about Monday 2005-08-15
Written: (7040 days ago)
Next in thread: 646472, 647031

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!


^________^ It's a good day to be me.

I PASSED my driving test! PASSED!!!! :D Nailed both parrallel and angle parking on the FIRST try!!! :D I only had one mishap when the guy told me to go left, and I went right, but I did the turn right, went into the right lane and all that crap. XD I was so nervous. I was all shakey last night, and this morning. ^_^ I didn't run anyone over. SQUEEE!!!!! I'll get my license around 5:30 tonight. Mwehehe! Watch out people of Stephenville! >:D Leara's driving unsupervised! *faints*

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Written about Wednesday 2005-06-29
Written: (7087 days ago)

Whee, I'll be going to St.Johns sometime within the week of August.15, that'll be a busy busy time, I'll be returning and leaving for Alberta a few days later. :P

609953  Link to this entry 
Written about Monday 2005-06-27
Written: (7088 days ago)
Next in thread: 609981

Stole from Hhoal's LJ, cause I'm bored. >.>

FIRSTS
First best friend: Sarah Rogers...kindergarten - 4th grade
First car: Haven't had one.
First screen name: Raindroplet or something cheesy like that.
First self purchased album: Ha, probaly Backstreet Boys back in the day.
First funeral: Grandpa, when I was 6.
First pets: Sammy...orange cat I was afraid of, he'd attack from under the couch when I'd get off the couch...
First piercing/tattoo: Ears, 5 years old. No tattoo's yet.
First musician you remember hearing in your house: Kylie Minogue...can you say Locomotion?
.LASTS.
Last car ride: McDonald's to my house with Ash.
Last kiss: Past life?
Last good cry: Uh...a few months ago...maybe...
Last library book checked out: Probaly something about witchcraft when I was in middle school...
Last movie seen: Inuyasha movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island
Last beverage drank: Iced Tea
Last food consumed: Ice cream.
Last crush: _________...a guy. :P
Last phone call: Person I called, or who called me? I called Abi last...and Keyano College called me a while ago...
Last time showered: Last night.
Last shoes worn: 3inch high sandels.
Last cd played: A burned one with all Slayers ost's.
Last item bought: McDonalds...and the prick didn't give me my sweet and sour sauce with my nuggets. ; _ ; It's blasphemy I tell you.
Last annoyance: Mom nagging at me last night.
Last disappointment: Uh...dunno.
Last time wanting to die: Wow, it's been a while...last summer/fall?
Last time scolded: Last night.
Last shirt worn: Black Yu-Gi-Oh! Tee.
Last website visited: Elftown.
Last song you sang: God knows...
Last color socks you wore? I wear socks? Oh wait...green.
.WHATS.
What color of underwear are you wearing? Black
What time did you wake up today? 2:15
.FUTURE.
Where do you want to go? Japan! :D
What is your career going to be? Animator/Comic Artist, or housewife if I can find some poor soul to marry me. XD
Where are you going to live? Dunno...
How many kids do you want? One...but I don't know if I want a boy or girl, so probaly 2...>.>
What kind of car(s): Fast ones!
.CURRENT.
Current mood: Hungry..
Current music: None
Current taste: None
Current hair: Chin length, needs a cut.
Current clothes: Yu-Gi-Oh! Tee and low rise dark blue denim jeans.
(x) - you've done
(_) - you haven't done

(_) kissed a member of the opposite sex
(_) kissed a member of the same sex
(_) crashed a friend's car
(_) been to Japan
(x) ridden in a taxi
(_) been fired
(_) been in a fist fight
(_) snuck out of my parent's house
(x) ever had a crush on someone of the same sex
(_) ever dated someone of the same sex
(x) had feelings for someone who didnt have them back
(_) been arrested
(_) made out with a stranger
(_) stole something from my job
(_) celebrated new years in time square
(_) gone on a blind date
(_) had a crush on a teacher
(_) celebrated mardi-gras in new orleans
(_) been to Europe
(x) skipped school
(_) cut myself on purpose
(_) been married
(_) gotten divorced
(_) had children
(_) seen someone die
(_) been to Africa.
(x) Punched a friend
(_) Driven over 400 miles to attend a show/festival
(x) Been to Canada
(_) Been to Mexico
(_) Been on a plane
(_) Seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show
(_) Thrown up in a bar
(_) Purposely set a part of myself on fire
(_) Eaten Sushi
(x) Been snowboarding
(_) Met someone in person from the internet
(x) Been moshing at a concert
(x) had real feelings for someone you knew only online
(_) been in an abusive relationship
(_) been pregnant or got someone pregnant
(_) lost a child
(_) gone to college
(_) graduated college, community
(_) tried killing yourself
(_) taken painkillers
(x) love someone or miss someone right now

.UNIQUE.
Nervous Habits? Shaking leg/foot, tapping nails on hard surfaces.
Can you roll your tongue? Maybe...o.O
Can you raise one eyebrow at a time? I think so.
Can you blow spit bubbles? A bit...they pop before forming full bubbles. XD
Can you cross your eyes? Yesh.
Do you make your bed daily? Why? I'm only gonna mess it up again when I go to bed.
.CLOTHES.
Which shoe goes on first? Right.
Speaking of shoes, have you ever thrown one at anyone? Yesh.
On the average, how much money do you carry in your wallet? $20 when lucky...

.FOOD.
Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it? Twirl.
Have you ever eaten Spam? No...
Favorite ice cream flavor? Heavenly Hash
How many cereals in your cabinet? 5?
What's your favorite beverage? Iced Tea.
What's your favorite restaurant? Pizza Delight, Mary Browns
Do you cook? Sometimes.
.RANDOMS.
How often do you brush your teeth? At least once a day.
Hair drying method? Blow Dry...or it curls and frizzes.
Have you ever colored/highlighted your hair? Yesh...strawberry blonde, red highlights, rocketfire red, funky purple, chilled plum...I want blonde next, the color I had when I was little.
.MANNERS.
Do you swear? Fuck yes.
Do you ever spit? No
.WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE.
Animal? KITTY!!!!
Food? Icecream, chicken, and taters.
Month? August? I don't really have one.
Day? Friday or Sunday.
Favorite Cartoon Character? Stewie!!!
Shoe Brand? Don't have one.
Subject in school? I liked english...
Color? Crimson
TV show? Family Guy, Futurama, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
IN AND AROUND.
The CD player? A cd.
Person you talk most on the phone with? Ash.
Ever taken a cab? Yes.
Do you regularly check yourself out in store windows and mirrors? Only a glance sometimes, gotta make sure everything is how it's supposed to be. XD
What color is your bedroom? Really light blue...looks white...I didn't pick the color. >.>
Do you use an alarm clock? Yesh.
Window seat or aisle? Window.
.LA LA LAND.
What's your sleeping position? Fetal position or on back, legs flung in which ever direction.
Even in hot weather do you use a blanket? I cover with the sheet...sometimes if it's really hot I don't though.
Do you snore? Apparently, sometimes, not often...when I sleep on my back and have a stuffy nose.
Do you sleepwalk? I did when I was little.
Do you talk in your sleep? Nope.
Do you sleep with stuffed animals? Teddy and my Pikachu pillow are next to me.
How about with the light on? I cover my window in blankets to keep the light out.
Do you fall asleep with the TV or radio on? I often listen to music to fall asleep. >.>
What jewelry do you wear 24/7? The only thing i don't take off when I go to bed is my surgical steel barbell in the top of my ear.
Favorite piece of clothing? Recently my Moto low rise jeans...I can pull them down without unbuttoning, and their comfy.

593089  Link to this entry 
Written about Wednesday 2005-06-08
Written: (7108 days ago)
Next in thread: 593817

I want to be blonde again...it's taking forever for my hair to grow...I have like 2inch roots...and I keep dying over it with temporary color just to even out the color...and now I don't think even dying over it with blond will actually turn out...well, blond. O.O I'm afraid what color might come of a red/purple with blonde over it combination....hmm...and I still have more colors of the rainbow to try...I'm trying to give each color a try, black will be last, that'll be hard to get rid of...I've currently had(other than my natural color) strawberry blond, fire rocket red, funky purple(came out red), and chilled plum(Yay for purple that faded into burgandy!) ....so next, I want blue...electic freaking blue. ^^ My parents are going to kill me. Muhaha.

577690  Link to this entry 
Written about Thursday 2005-05-19
Written: (7128 days ago)

Recent obsessions?

Tsubasa Chronicle
Trinity Blood
Kyou Kara Maou!
Ah! My Goddess TV
Loveless
Glass Mask (2005)
Mekakushi no Kuni manga
Shinshi Doumei Cross manga

This is merely for reference. I have the tendency to get to a site, and forget what the hell I'm looking for. >.> I already have the feeling that I'm missing something. >.> Of course, I forgot Tsubasa Chronicle. >.>

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