Dissy and Lisi

So this one is just kind of a brief update on my life- exciting stuff ;) I know, LoL!

Well today I handed in the first draft of my dissertation for preliminary board review. Let me explain this. It's not my full dissy. It's just the abstract and introduction and methods which are built upon a mix of already existent data & what my research is going to look at & how I'll contribute to the psych world, an explanation of the available research literature, and how my experiment is going to be run, respectively. Yup, 3 sections that took 12 pages to go through. But I completed all of the research for it and wrote it in only two weeks so I'm pretty stinking proud of myself! It was extremely time consuming but it's done :) Yay! And now I don't have to think about it for another week and a half while my RVT prof is going through it. Then it'll be back to the grindstone with it because trust me, this is a really rough draft. But I worked hard and handed it in and now I feel great!

I've also been pretty busy with neuropsych assessment and learning the new assessments and having my competency trials and learning how to interpret them and reading the massive amounts of required readings each week. I love this class so much but I'm not a big fan of the reading load, LoL! I keep reminding myself that it'll all be worth it when I know what I'm doing at next year's practicum site in regards to neuropsych testing of clients...

Which brings me to my next point. We're all starting to plan for our practicum sites next year and I'm looking at a medical site to round out my CV (the crazy resume/curriculum vita for internship applications). So I'll be sending in applications and having interviews here this month and into next month. Good thing all of my fancy pants and snazzy tops are dry cleaned or washed and pressed ;)

And I'm actually keeping up with my Life is Simple binder- or Lisi, as I call her. It may sound silly but I feel like giving her a name has made her more friendly and less scary or demanding. I adore her :) and I'm learning new ways to utilize her. I add and subtract things that she carries for me, I add little decorations and pretties to her, and I keep her close by almost all the time.

So that's where I am right now. Trying to keep up with school and friends and family. Tomorrow night is Friendly Dinner :D I can't wait!