Well, I got the tickets. So I now have a cheap date for tonight. I like it when I get things for free.
This semester is starting to wind down. I can feel it in my bones. I've only got three more weeks to teach for this semester, and thanksgiving break is almost here. So much for my "easy" semester. Next semester I will be taking 9 hours including my thesis and hopefully teaching an intro to psych course. Oh yeah, and working full time at Fortwood. I am really looking foward to the days where i just have to work full-time, or win the lottery (mainly just working).
It seems that it would be nice to just come home after work and relax, do nothing. Now I come to my office at school after work and put more hours in. I just want a block of 8 hours of being unproductive and not thinking about being productive. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my work and research. It just too much at one time.
At least I can go to the basketball game tonight and think about the articles I should be reading, papers I should be writing, and homework I should be grading.
I want a five year vacation.
Today pretty much seems uneventful. I am now just reviewing over my notes, and I am getting a call from Wendy...She says that UTC is giving away tickets for tonight's NBA game between atlanta and memphis at utc arena. I will be back soon.
Apparently staying on top of things is one of my not so strong points. I would say half of my blogs talk about not being able to blog that much; so I won't do that now (even though I did).
Even though I am not taking any classes this semester, I am busy with teaching a Statistics lab at UTC and coming up with a new thesis. After working with my old thesis (detecting mild traumatic brain injuries in physical abuse cases) for a year a committee member decided two weeks before the fall 05 semester that this study could not be done in Chattanooga supposedly due to not enough participants. Up till now, this semester I have been racking my brain to come up with a new thesis topic, method, and proposal. At the beginning of the semester, I set aside four hours on Friday afternoons for researching and writing on my thesis. However, because of my teaching, my Fridays have been more like office hours for my students.
Due to a sudden moment of inspiration (and reading dozens of empirical articles) I came up with my new thesis topic and am currently working on my methodology and scales. I will be investigating whether or not (rather how much) positive attributes: spirituality, dispositional optimism, kindness, creativity, etc. moderates the relationship of stress onto psychological well-being.
And then, Ph.D. application dates just silently crept on me. It was about two months before the deadlines and I did not have my five schools picked out to apply to. Everything
has to be turned in, including my new GRE scores which I have just registered to take (I am studying this time). Hopefully I can decide which five programs to apply to and get everything turned in on time.
This has been a busy semester even without taking any classes.