I got the soc coursework finished on time. *yays self* It was very hard to force myself to spend almost all day doing it, but worth it. I would have kinda been withdrawn from the course if I hadn't finished it, so yeah, I think the protracted boredom was worth it. This time. Heh, the teacher told me it was 'very good'. Woo fucking hoo. I bet he hadn't read the whole thing when he said that.

Maybe I'm being too harsh. When I finally got into it, parts of it were actaully quite interesting. I won't bore you with too many details, but I was trying to deteremine the ways in which perceptions of crime differ according to gender. I gave out questionnaires (which looked pretty damn good, if I do say so. I'm a bit of a Word formatting fetishist. Whether the actual questions were any good is another, well, question) and people filled them out and shit. It was a thing. And anyway, for one section they had to rate crimes by order of severity, and get this - the men thought rape was a more severe crime than the women. Wouldn't you have thought that'd be the other way round? Am I being sexist in some way I haven't figured out yet? Anyway, I analysed this phenomenon thus (paraphrased, my copy is on my college comp account) "blah, jargon, filler, it is possible that male respondents gave socially desirable answers for this question - i.e., they did not want to appear to be approving of rape or those who commit it in any way, so they felt they had to give it the most severe rating possible. Women (who cannot commit rape and are almost always the victims of it) feel they can rate its severity freely because they could not be seen to be approving of rape or those who commit it." Is it me or is the wording there awkward? I suppose I got the point across. Does it seem like a likely theory for men rating rape higher than women? Well, it's the one in my coursework so as far as I'm concerned it's gospel.

Oh, and I finally finished my fanlisting for After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell (which I urge everybody to read, right now). I think it's pretty much done, I can't find any obvious errors, but if you feel like taking a look around and let me know if/how I've fucked up I'd be right grateful. It hasn't been approved by tfl.org as yet, but I can't exactly see a flood of apps coming in. If you feel like actually joining that would be great too, but you know, no pressure.

It's my first proper html effort. I know it's pretty basic, but I have seen a lot worse. At least it's clean and easy to navigate. I like uncluttered site designs anyway.

Wow, what a great excuse for being to lazy to learn html properly.

The codes are the first proppa graphics I've done too! I suppose the title one was really, but ignore that, it's crap.

I think the error message is something to do with a conflict between the Geoshitties ads and the forwarding url. The ads don't actually show up - what's worse, ads or an error message? I think ads are worse to be honest. I think the pop-ups still show, it's those horrible banners that have been mangled. I hope Geoshitties don't like delete it or anything. It's not like I've messed with the ad code, it's their fault if their ads don't work with forwarding urls. So there.

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