This'll be boring
February 2009
Now: Fix the shit out of your stats, woman!
Now: Harass profs for reading lists
Feb 2: Complete sec. A-D NRSA
Feb 4-13 READ
Feb 13-15 Written comps
Feb 15-23 READ
Feb 24: 10a-1p Oral comps
March 1: Abstract for PNIRS
March 1: Scholar's Award Application for PNIRS
March 2009
-Ask Mario very nicely to run my assays
-Review R01
-Have undergrads enter values from assays into Excel
-Edit comments on NRSA
-Add assay data to NRSA
-Submit IRB based on NRSA study
-SPRING FUCKING BREAK
April 2009
April 8: SUBMIT NRSA TO NIH!!! (NIMH: BBBP: MESH)
-Write intro to P&H paper (based on GCRC proposal)
-Write methods and analyses for P&H paper
-Decide where to submit P&H paper
-Schedule defense for dissertation proposal
Summer 2009
-Have party to celebrate getting the NRSA
-Make/print poster for PNIRS
-Go to PNIRS
-Suck up to Kemeny, Epel, Folkman if she's there
-Teach 203/260
-Finish P&H paper and send it out for review
So weird to think I might actually finish someday. It makes me tingly. Or maybe that's just the caffeine. I had ONE CAN OF COKE, people. Why am I spazzing the fuck out?
I got to pimp my own paper today! I'm in a grant-writing class, and one of my fellow students (who is going STRAIGHT from here to a faculty position, how cool is that??) is looking at interparental conflict and the effects on the stress reactivity of infants. And I was all, "Hey, I just happened to have written a paper on a similar area..." I am so smooth.
A few months back, one of the professors in my department asked Adam and I to teach her and her fiance to swing dance for their wedding. In the process we met her teenaged daughter, who is an awesome fun geek girl. We sat with her and her friend at the reception and talked about video games and Internet memes. (Also, she bribed the DJ to play "Never Gonna Give You Up.")
I just checked my mailbox in the main office... in it is a note: "From Rachel - she found this at Setsucon last weekend!" Pinned to the note is a pin - a Companion Cube with a piece of cake.
If I knew I would have a kid like this one, I might actually consider having one. =) (Assuming, of course, that she sprung fully formed from my forehead and started life at age 12.)