I just realised that I haven’t updated my blog in forever and ever. Not that I get many visitors over here (yet), but I should still update it regularly I reckon since I like writing.

Not much is happening lately, other than job hunting and that kind of stuff. I’ve applied for a fair few jobs and had a telephone interview for a trainee position recently. And I need to apply for more and improve my CV as best I can.

In the great world of WoW, my hunter is currently level 66 and going strong and quickly. She has also acquired a new pet, one of those big dinos (the blackish one). I’ll post some pictures later (I really do love taking screenshots ^^).

Apparently there’s a game in google where you search for: “[your first name] needs” and then list the top ten

So here are my needs:

1. Lise needs a song
2. Lise needs to be redefined
3. Lise needs a good amount of INT to learn her summons, even though they use PIE
4. Lise needs people to help work that evening
5. Lise needs all she can get in that area if she’s going to be the main attacker
6. Lise needs more full-blooded playing than Cojocaru’s Giselle-like start
7. Lise needs to exude magnetism
8. Lise needs him to come visit her
9. Lise needs them
10. Lise needs to feel that she protects Annabelle, even if she doesn’t exactly understand why

Right…

I always rather liked this one

I just read a blogpost about fat kids in the UK and I am fairly shocked. Apparently some people over here believe childhood obesity is so bad that they may have to take kids from their parents and they accuse parents of abuse(!).

I would really like to know where those kids are, because except a few examples in the media I haven’t seen a single child in the UK who is so overweight there seemed to be any need to take them from their parents. I’ve lived in the UK for a year now, most of it in a family area in an ordinary UK town, and I passed a school at least once per day since it was close to my house there and I saw kids regularly all over the place. I never saw a single one who seemed to be so grossly fat as to be in immediate danger. There were chubby ones, of course, but I didn’t ever see a child who looked very fat.

I’ve known fat kids as I grew up, and I was chubby myself. None of them were abused in any way, shape or form. Most of the fat kids were large boned and came from families of large boned people, so even at their thinnest they’d still look large.

As for taking kids from their families, how is that going to work? I thought it was known that it is not recommended to put kids on a diet? Take any one family where each child eats the same food and the same amount and have the same activity level, yet one is skinny and the other fat, is only the fat child being abused by the parents?

I am not impressed.

Imagine… I’ve finished my data collection (yay!). Now I’m working on analysing all this data. I already have some impressions and ‘know’ some of what I’m going to write. First, however, I have to do my job. My method for analysis is that I’m creating an excel spreadsheet for each interview question, and in there I have a coloumn where I write down what words each participant used in reply to the question, then a coloumn where I number in which participants used these exact words. Then I have one where I group together words/sentences with the same or similar meanings, so I can get a fuller understanding of who agrees with whom. In the end I have my findings for this question.

All of this is very boring work. However, it should be done as it gives me a fuller understanding of how many think so or so is the case.

But – it’s just one part of the analysis. This is qualitative research, and I also have to go through my interviews to answer questions I have myself, but that I didn’t ask for from my interviewees unless they brought it up themselves.

I do like doing research, well, I like it when I have it all plotted into my head and all I need to do is type it out in Word. All the work about it, like data collection and analysing is rather dull. But it’s what has to be done if you want to type down all those cool stuff you want to say.

And now I’m back to the labour!

New blog system, figured I’d renew myself and get one that can be a bit more customised than the one I used to have.