So Much Time and So Little To Do! 2 October, 2008

Wait.

Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.

I have to take my first Child Psychopathology exam tomorrow, and one of my classmates said it was kind of hard. I’ve been studying for a couple hours every night for nearly a week, so I should be ready.

I have to start studying for my first Adolescent Developmental Psych exam coming up on Tuesday. This one includes essays, and I’m just shy of freaked out.

I have two test review sessions for Psychological Testing and Measurement (the class I’m a TA for) that I’m running next week. That means I need to catch up with the reading and review the slides, study guide, and actual test before Monday at 11AM.

I have to meet with students about their papers. I’ve already met with five or six groups, and I think I’m meeting with a couple others tomorrow.

I have a Biomechanics quiz due on Monday. Vomit.

General Conference is this weekend. There goes eight hours of my time.

I need to start going back to the gym, even though my insomia is still real bad.

I need to start writing in my Sports Psych journal again. I also need to talk to Coach Manning.

Ugh.

BUT!

I bowled the best game of my LIFE yesterday . . . by one point! 139 baby!

I talked to Dr. H (briefly) about Oregon! I am really getting pumped to go!

My hair looks AWESOME . . . well, maybe not today. BUT, it’s a great cut and I love it.

I did something crazy today. A while back I bought some blue eyeshadow on a whim, and I haven’t touched it. Until today. I pulled out my eye liner brush and used the shadow as an eyeliner. AND I DON’T LOOK LIKE A HOOKER. Daring, I tell you.

And now I’m going to study some more for CPP. And do everything else I need to do.

The official April update 9 April, 2008

I didn’t get the internship in NH.

I think I was disappointed for, oh, about a minute. Don’t get me wrong, I would have loved to have gotten in, but now I’m a bit more on my own schedule and I won’t have to worry about a week of limbo time between the end of spring term and the internship. Soooo, now I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do this summer. I’m thinking about staying in Utah and working at one of the local treatment centers or going home and working with a family friend. Hmm. Not really sure at this point.

The poster conference was lovely. We didn’t win anything (unfortunately), but we were approached about contributing our research on self-control and humor to a book on ego depletion! James and I were really excited. I should be getting our paper that I’ve been revamping for my advanced writing class back sometime in the next week or so, and I’ll send it off after I make any necessary revisions. Yay!

Teaching for Dr. Steffen was fun. We just got to review a bunch of papers and answer any questions that the students had. Pretty uneventful.

That’s it for now.

Briefish update 20 March, 2008

Quick little update on my (not-so) exciting life.

I applied for an internship this summer in New Hampshire. It’s with Wediko Children’s Services as part of their summer treatment program for kids who have emotional, social, and behavioral problems. The camp itself is 45 days, and there are like 9 counselors with each group of kids, not including the different therapeutic activity specialists and academic specialist, so I think the kid to counselor ratio is 2:1, which is so much better than last summer. I don’t know if I’ll get it, since I applied kind of late, but keep your fingers crossed.

School is . . . school, I guess. Classes are going okay, but I’m ready for the semester to be done. This week has been particularly stressful, with three exams and other assignments due.

On a slightly irritated note, I was looking forward to submitting my group’s poster from my Research Methods class last fall to the Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Research Conference, so I emailed everyone back in January about doing it. The only problem was that I didn’t have the electronic copy of the poster. One of my group members (only one, mind you) emailed me back expressing interest in doing the conference, and that he had a copy of the poster.  Well, a couple days ago he emailed me again about submitting the poster, and I told him that I couldn’t submit the poster unless he sent me a copy. He never did, so I emailed him again today (the DEADLINE) to see if he had submitted it on his own, and he hadn’t and told me to do it. Um, HELLO? I DON’T HAVE THE POSTER! So I’m kind of upset. Augh!

To end on a happier note, yesterday in my capstone class (we’re helping Dr. Steffen with his Research Methods textbook) Dr. Steffen recruited four of us to teach his 302 class next Wednesday. I’m stoked.