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My o my, I haven't posted anything in quite some time, let's fix that!
First comes the excuses I have to make as to why I have not posted in quite some time. It boils down to grad school. You'd think having classes only two days a week would be relaxing, but you'd be wrong. Monday's I'm on campus from 9-8pm and then there's the commute to get to and from AU, not a great time. I really enjoy days that I don't have anything scheduled because those are the days where I get a lot done. So far that day has been Sunday.....and that's it. Between proctoring exams, rock climbing, kendo, class, and something resembling a social life, Most days of the week I've got something scheduled. Some would say that's a good thing, I'm not being a hermit in my apartment stalking the internet for hours at a time while waiting for my arteries to clog, but I find that waiting around to go to some event i've had on my calendar all week is not as relaxing as waking up and going "I have allllll day to get whatever I need to done." Okay, enough whining.
My research advisor decided to call me out of nowhere (out of nowhere since I hadn't checked my e-mail since wednesday night due to a thursday physiological psychology exam after which I was exhausted and slept until 1this afternoon) and discuss my research plans. Yeah. Perhaps I truly am of the generation that likes instant gratification and being told what to do, but I have never conducted research in my life. I was expecting she'd give me insight on what's actually possible and people to get in contact with more information, instead she wanted to hear me flounder on indecisively about how the hell I'm going to get veterans to be in my study who've been diagnosed with a disorder but who AREN'T in a hospital program. Seriously. If there are a bunch of ex-Marines running around who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder but who aren't receiving some sort of treatment, I'm gonna lock my door and never take another step outside (since I'm probably surrounded by them out here next to the PENTAGON). I don't know how she expects me to find these people, but I've got 5 days to figure it out, at Wednesday's lab meeting I'm going to tell the group about my research proposal : ) joy. Okay, I lied, that was more whining, but look! a ray of sunshine through the darkness! I found something AWESOME! Warrior Mind Training! I want to do research on how effective it is, since the actual program hasn't done any. Working with these people would be so cool! I hope they get back to me soon. How awesome would it be to work with them as a counselor in San Diego, CA? I could stand to live in California.
I also got invited to a party tonight, which I would go to if I didn't need to go to kendo practice. Yes, NEED. That whole too-much-right-hand-not-going-straight-foreward thing is a serious problem and I'm tired of being criticized for it by Yan-sensei. I need to stop it and I'm going to stop it TONIGHT. Maybe I really am scared of being hit, maybe I really am fighting to try and win/not lose rather than trying to fight well. Those are things I hate, things I said I'd never fall prey to, and I guess I need to admit to myself that I'm doing them. I'm tired of this reputation, tonight I'm going to be AMAZING at practice and I'm going to break my bad habits. I was poking around the internet today, inspired by my optimism about how well practice will go tonight, and found a couple cool links. Ivan's Kendo Blog is kinda interesting and I like how he puts the advice he gets in bold, but it got me to a kendo article that I really loved. If you practice Kendo or are at all interested in it, I highly suggest reading it. Lots of good tips and advice, great explanations, and unfortunately some terminology I don't understand....but soon will! I'm going to keep it in the back of my mind at practice tonight and if we do as much ji-geiko this week as we did last week, I have a feeling I'll do much better.
I was also reading MJ's blog today and wanted to play a video he had on there, but it was no longer available. However, I saw a link that looked interesting...this guy is pretty funny. COD:MW2 and college humor, gotta love it, but you can stop the video at 2:10 'cause then he just starts ranting about random news.
So yeah, that's all for now. I'll let you know how practice goes, how the proposal goes, how my paper on PTSD assessment methods goes, how my presentation on the validity of historic research in psychology goes......mmf....there's still so much to do!
First comes the excuses I have to make as to why I have not posted in quite some time. It boils down to grad school. You'd think having classes only two days a week would be relaxing, but you'd be wrong. Monday's I'm on campus from 9-8pm and then there's the commute to get to and from AU, not a great time. I really enjoy days that I don't have anything scheduled because those are the days where I get a lot done. So far that day has been Sunday.....and that's it. Between proctoring exams, rock climbing, kendo, class, and something resembling a social life, Most days of the week I've got something scheduled. Some would say that's a good thing, I'm not being a hermit in my apartment stalking the internet for hours at a time while waiting for my arteries to clog, but I find that waiting around to go to some event i've had on my calendar all week is not as relaxing as waking up and going "I have allllll day to get whatever I need to done." Okay, enough whining.
My research advisor decided to call me out of nowhere (out of nowhere since I hadn't checked my e-mail since wednesday night due to a thursday physiological psychology exam after which I was exhausted and slept until 1this afternoon) and discuss my research plans. Yeah. Perhaps I truly am of the generation that likes instant gratification and being told what to do, but I have never conducted research in my life. I was expecting she'd give me insight on what's actually possible and people to get in contact with more information, instead she wanted to hear me flounder on indecisively about how the hell I'm going to get veterans to be in my study who've been diagnosed with a disorder but who AREN'T in a hospital program. Seriously. If there are a bunch of ex-Marines running around who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder but who aren't receiving some sort of treatment, I'm gonna lock my door and never take another step outside (since I'm probably surrounded by them out here next to the PENTAGON). I don't know how she expects me to find these people, but I've got 5 days to figure it out, at Wednesday's lab meeting I'm going to tell the group about my research proposal : ) joy. Okay, I lied, that was more whining, but look! a ray of sunshine through the darkness! I found something AWESOME! Warrior Mind Training! I want to do research on how effective it is, since the actual program hasn't done any. Working with these people would be so cool! I hope they get back to me soon. How awesome would it be to work with them as a counselor in San Diego, CA? I could stand to live in California.
I also got invited to a party tonight, which I would go to if I didn't need to go to kendo practice. Yes, NEED. That whole too-much-right-hand-not-going-straight-foreward thing is a serious problem and I'm tired of being criticized for it by Yan-sensei. I need to stop it and I'm going to stop it TONIGHT. Maybe I really am scared of being hit, maybe I really am fighting to try and win/not lose rather than trying to fight well. Those are things I hate, things I said I'd never fall prey to, and I guess I need to admit to myself that I'm doing them. I'm tired of this reputation, tonight I'm going to be AMAZING at practice and I'm going to break my bad habits. I was poking around the internet today, inspired by my optimism about how well practice will go tonight, and found a couple cool links. Ivan's Kendo Blog is kinda interesting and I like how he puts the advice he gets in bold, but it got me to a kendo article that I really loved. If you practice Kendo or are at all interested in it, I highly suggest reading it. Lots of good tips and advice, great explanations, and unfortunately some terminology I don't understand....but soon will! I'm going to keep it in the back of my mind at practice tonight and if we do as much ji-geiko this week as we did last week, I have a feeling I'll do much better.
I was also reading MJ's blog today and wanted to play a video he had on there, but it was no longer available. However, I saw a link that looked interesting...this guy is pretty funny. COD:MW2 and college humor, gotta love it, but you can stop the video at 2:10 'cause then he just starts ranting about random news.
So yeah, that's all for now. I'll let you know how practice goes, how the proposal goes, how my paper on PTSD assessment methods goes, how my presentation on the validity of historic research in psychology goes......mmf....there's still so much to do!
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