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December 25, 2005
Electronic Christmas
Well Christmas here was great. Santa was very good to us. We had an electronic theme, I got a palm TX and a nice little set of speakers for my ipod. Heck it even came with an itty bitty little remote. It is soo small that I'll have to try hard not to loose it. Dad got a new set of speakers for his computer. They are those creature ones that look like little ghosts. He also got some home automation software and has spent all morning grooving to his music.
One exception to the tech theme was my favorite gift that I gave: a pink hard hat to my mother. (for those of you who didn't know my parents will be extensively remodelling their kitchen in the new year at the same time as her office is being remodelled. We of course decorated it with her name on the front and "Mom What's In Charge" on the back. She's really taken to it and has worn it most of the morning.
I hope everyone has/had a Merry Christmas.
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December 16, 2005
The paper saga continues
So I finally resubmitted my one stab at a journal paper to the second journal yesterday. It took me about 10 hours to reformat it into the uber special APA format. Personally I think all psychologists need to get a life, and learn to make a LaTeX or Word template as well as a procite and endnote template. Instead they publish a book -- which is not nearly as helpful in today's society.
Personally I find the fact that you have to have a paper formatted in any specific way just to send it into a journal silly. Why not just allow the manuscript submitted in plain text, what you are actually worried about in the first editorial round anyway should not be in any way linked with formatting. In the end you will have to hand it over to a professional format person anyway (or simple force people to submit in LaTeX). Sigh, so much wasted time.
I also managed to finish up the two reviews that my supervisor and I have been working on/sitting on for the past semester. One more meeting and we'll send them off.
Oh and to combat my fickle memory and to increase my working knowledge of LaTeX I've begun to type up statistical analysis how-to notes. I finished my first one on Logistic Regression yesterday. If anyone is interested I'll send it along :)
Oh, and I'm still sick. Judging by the pack of drugs my doctor gave me this morning I should be dead by the new year.
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December 14, 2005
Birthday Toys
Yes, the best thing about birthdays are the toys. I love getting new gadgets -- which of course goes along with my engineering nature. So this year, Brian got me a TIVO which I have been covetting for a long time. We still need a 1-in-3-out cable splitter in order to do some of the cooler, picture in picture and record while watching a different channel features, but I am excited. We spent about an hour last night setting it up and were heavily disappointed when it told us it needed 4-8 hours to digest it's downloaded information before we could schedule all of our season passes. But it was fun just the same.
Also in the news yesterday was much more discussion about the trip. We now have 3/4 plane trips booked/reserved. The only one left is from somewhere in southern Chile to Santiago. I think that I will let Sarah figure this one out, as I'm happy to be done spending money for a while.
Oh and I talked to the travel guy today when I picked up my tickets, and he suggested that we head to Thailand or elsewhere in SE Asia before heading to Austrailia since it is really difficult to find cheap tickets from Dec 10 - Jan 15. Just something to ponder.
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December 12, 2005
Off to Patagonia
Yes, it is official. Today after much discussion Becca and I, and possibly Sarah bought our plane tickets to Buenos Aires and from Santiago for this coming spring :) Happy day. While we didn't get a great deal, at least we didn't get a horrible deal. Nothing makes you feel more like an adult than paying a large amount of your own money (which you have been saving on purpose) to buy an expensive plane ticket. Now if we can only figure out how to get down to Patagonia and back again for around $300 (which is what we budgeted).
Thoughts anyone? OK, I'll be off home soon. Having the women's group over for fondue tonight. It is a night early, but it is close enough to a party for me.
Posted by kfeigh at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)
The blahness continues
Yes that's right. The blahness continued all week and into the weekend. It did have a highlight of a massive pounding headache on Friday night-Saturday evening. Needless to say I got very little mental work done. On Saturday I ran errands, got a new car battery, and vegged (as it seemed the only thing my mind was capable of) On Sunday I finally felt well enough to stand for long periods of time, and I finished up my baking.
Now I'm back at work. I have 2 goals for the week. 1) finally finish polishing and correctly formatting my journal paper so that I can send it off and 2) finish up my data analysis (this will require quite a bit of higher level thought as I need to continue to reading statistics textbooks.
Good luck to Becca, you'll soon be done.
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December 06, 2005
Blah day
Today has been one of those blah days. I've had a head ache since last night that I cannot seem to shake even though I got at least 9 hours of sleep last night. I still feel SO tired. What is up with me. I've been on antibiotics for almost 2 weeks now.
I've gotten lots of work done over the past few days on the data analysis, but none of it is turning out like I had hoped. Double Sigh.
I just finished with my final class I needed for my minor, and for the life of me I just cannot seem to get myself excited about it. Why won't this cold just leave me alone.
I'm trying to decide if I feel up to going to my 30 minute body toning class tonight. It isn't all that strenuous, but I'm not sure if I want to walk that far in the cold.
I'm feeling very emotional right now, it has to be the hormones. There needs to be a little hormone check meter -- kind of like those blood sugar monitors. You check your blood for hormones, then give your self an injection of whichever one you are deficient in -- so that you can rebalance yourself.
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