Thursday, Day 19: Cyanide and Pizza, please

All day at RUPP -  it was a stressful day of looking for assessment tools and defining research constructs. I realize that I am doing things that I have never done before and constantly getting stuck and hating the feeling of being incompetent. Social science research is so different that what I've done before and my training in it has been abysmal to say the least - the biggest deficit in my program of study thus far. But, I think we made progress and now I only feel quite behind instead of suicidal (not really... Mike, no assessment necessary). We came home and relaxed in the afternoon before hanging out with Tracy - she had us over for pizza on her patio overlooking the neighborhood. We talked and laughed for a long time - it is Always so nice to be with her outside of work. I really do appreciate her as a person and, when we are really connecting around work, I really appreciate her as a mentor as well. We rounded the evening out with a movie - The Heartbreaker. SO GOOD. French RomCon - Highly recommended! We at chocolate from a local maker and peeled fresh lychee. Once again... the gang went home and I am out having a night to myself. I am finding that I really enjoy this time out and alone. That said, I could really use someone to come home to... (that's you, Mike).