end of the March

Well, it's done, and it was somewhat successful. A crapload better than it would have been!

Accomplishments:
data collection - all in all, we did a very solid job on this front, with the clothing study still underway and a study coming down the pike in the sully line of work.
posters and such - people are basically ready for WPA, with minor exceptions and tuneups still to come.
reviews - done.
Beck grant - applied for.
service projects - no progress at all on one of them (waiting until Fall); other one is in progress, if slowly.
important errands - house is in escrow, license is renewed, car will be registered tomorrow.

Misfires:
writing - the big one. really almost nothing done on this front, in large part because of uninspiring and/or missing data.
exercise - um...yeah. didn't so much do any of that.

M of I, Day 33

4/3, Friday:

lots of war analyses, poster virtually done; some grading; uploaded Angela’s survey to the site we're surveying from.

M of I, Day 32

4/1, Thursday:

Worked for a while on the war letters poster, much of which was reading articles. Also got feedback to Alex on his poster and chatted with Sully and Erin about theirs.

M of I, Day 31

3/31, Wednesday:

Played cards with my friends, which was nice. Also integrated some new gum data from Alex and analyzed it (looks bad), looked at the data from Simon's old lab group (looks bad), finished my analysis of the war letters data (looks decent). Edited Alex's poster some. Did a touch of grading. Moved $10k to Rebecca's account for house-buying!

M of I, Day 30

3/30, Tuesday:

Tuned Simon's poster and he's sent it in; all but finished the war letters analysis (one thing I want to go back and redo a different way); commented a thesis outline for a student whose committee I am *not* chairing; started grading exams.

M of I, Day 29

3/29, Monday:

A decent if drudgerous day on the whole, mostly spent processing data and doing analyses for the war letters study. I'm 65% done, maybe? I also gave feedback to Simon, Erin, and Alex on their posters.

M of I, Day 28

3/28, Sunday (belated):

that week was nutty. lots of basketball and game-playing and beer and many late nights, though I had one very productive afternoon and one nicely productive conversation. So: had a serious and detailed meeting with my mentor (J Smyth) about grant-getting, and are at a point where I have some things I can do. Also met with my collaborator (C Eccleston) about her cool pilot/preliminary/study 1 data, made some changes to what are already awesome stims, and am excited to move forward with a new study (spearheaded, probably, by Angela and/or Sully?) when I get back.