Ran into a fellow editor (talk about biased sample!) at a psychology study where we watched videos of people meeting for the first time and rated them based on our first impressions. Oh, the fremdscham was strong. They're trying to see if we rate people's personalities more accurately when they're attractive to us or if we feel as though we relate well with them. I got $10 for that.

The next day I did a linguistics study, listening to three minutes of a woman uttering various syllables from a fictional language. Then they played pairs of "words," and I had to decide which of the two was a member of said language. I was highly sleep deprived at a time and am probably an outlier. I wasn't at all confident in my choices, and the longer it went on, the more unsure I got. Sorry, grad students. That one also paid $10.

I've also completed the second half of the moving study I did about a year ago. For four consecutive days I wore an activity monitor and recorded every trip I took in a trip diary. They didn't seem to mind that Monday was a holiday (during which I left the house once). My parents are away now, too, which means I've had to commute lil' dude back from school as well. So my travel was not typical. Whatever. I hope I've given them enough to analyze. I just sent back the package today and will receive a $25 gift card to Shopper's Drug Mart when they get everything.