Sleep

Ugh! I was trying to write my methodology paper in my sleep last night. I tossed and turned as I struggled to understand and put together the paper in my dreams. I remember waking up at 3pm in a haze of text floating in the air. Struggle. Struggle. When I realized it was the middle of the night and I was not actually sitting at my computer, I tried to force myself to sleep, telling myself this was not the time to be writing my paper.

Needless to say, today has not been a particularly fruitful day. At least I got to work at my desk on a letter of intent to apply for a grant during my externship instead of having to see patients. Therefore, I pretended to read articles and almost fell asleep multiple times...morning and afternoon.

Somebody please make this semester end....

Two.Weeks.Left

Just two weeks left. Next week I'll post about Finals Week Freakout Fest as is tradition. But, I must say that Freakout Fest began much sooner in the semester this year, and I just might be pretty competitive this year. But, I'll leave that for next week.

All I can really say is....I'm almost done. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel....

Random Stuff

Well, I finally switched over to the new blogger. I've been avoiding my blog because there is simply no time to write in it this semester, so I just recently switched. But, in the process of switching, I lost my profile information and can't post my picture in the profile anymore (broken link). Sad. Very Sad.

So I replaced it with my avatar, which looks way cooler than I do in real life anyways (and signifies that I'm a cat person by the way).

Well, I'm just barely making it through the semester. I have three weeks left. I still don't have enough time in the day to do everything I've committed to do.

I have to make up hours for my GRA over the summer because I didn't work enough on it this semester. I'm hoping the project coordinator just gives me a grant to write. For some reason, I love the rush of applying for grants (although I have not been successful for the last three grant applications, you'd think I'd give up, but no, I need more punishment). But, the project coordinator complimented me on my "wonderful" job on the website project this semester. I wonder what's up her sleeve. She knows I've only been working about 25% of what I should be working, but I'm getting paid for 100%.

I've secured a GA for the summer in the computer lab. So far, I have evaded detection for my negligence and pitiful technical knowledge as a lab consultant. Wish me luck as I continue the facade.

I got an extension on my stats methodological paper. Now I just have to learn about measurement equivalence in SEM and IRT and write it up this weekend. Not a problem.

I just finished presenting in my seminar class today. It went fine, but I was about to crack, and pretty much dissed on some of the students for not posting on the discussion board. My presentation day was the only time that virtually nobody posted on the board. Let's just say that my way of interpreting information led me to believe that nobody had done the reading and I took it personally. I thought they weren't interested in my topic and I saw it as a sign of disrespect. Blech! I'm probably misinterpreting all that, but in my tired, stressed state, I couldn't help myself. The discussion was a little strained, too. But, people complimented me on my presentation afterwards, and one of the students said she'd be interested in doing research with me if I was doing something related to the topic I presented. I certainly felt better about that.

That's about it. Sorry for the thinly veiled sarcastic pessimism. I'll be back to my normal facetious playfulness in approximately three weeks.

We Support Virginia Tech

I won!!!

My research group won the student research award at the conference! It turns out that they gave awards to the top three of the eight nominees. We were one of the top three who won the award. I was very shocked and my professor had to poke at me to get up and receive the award. I've always hated getting up in front of the public for things like that. So I got all worked up and had to wind down afterwards. One of my colleagues was there to receive it with me, and although I was disgruntled last week, she really did pull through and work hard on her part. Now I'm going to split up the award money among us. It's nice to receive money as well as recognition (and a free t-shirt).

Therefore, everything is all okay. I made it through the conference and won the award. Now back to real life and to that massive amount of school work waiting for me...

Grrrrrrrr!!!!!!

Yep. That pretty much sums up how I feel right now. Grrr....I have to give a presentation at a conference this Friday. It's not just any presentation, it's a competition for the student research award. I'm just a little stressed about it. But, more so I'm a little annoyed at my collaborators. I just feel like a heavy weight is placed on my shoulders to be the one who carries this through. Grrrrr......