So about time to write another post...

Currently I'm working on my thesis... not right this minute, but I hope to do more work this evening (with what little I have left after skiing all day). This week and the next two are finalizing weeks, but especially this one. I have to get my methodologies down, write my research questions (mostly all written) and double check them, start the application process for Human Subjects approval, and then December 5th I travel to Tulum, Mexico! Que fantastico! I'm scared like none other... it's so huge, traveling on my own to a foreign country, doing research at this conference, having to do the majority of it in Spanish (yikes! guess what I'll be doing over Thanksgiving) and all this for my master's project! I feel incredibly grown-up.

I sure hope I can pull this off. Human Subjects Review takes about a week to get through (or longer) and I have to have their approval before I can do the research... unfortunately I don't know much about my sample population yet, and I won't know if I can actually do research at the conference till the 20th or so (which I need a letter saying I can do research from a conference organizer to get HSR approval)... and so much of this is going to happen more last minute than this! Sheesh.

Beyond that I have my 4 classes to get through as well. I am basically missing the last week before finals for my trip, so I have to get a bunch done before I leave, and then take a test when I come back. I've made a list of everything I need to do to finish out the semester, and it's long, but luckily listing it makes me feel better... now I won't forget to do anything!

I think I'm going to work on my project for Environmental Education tonight... It's due Wednesday. I also hope to type all my research questions. OH! and I should email professors about being gone in Mexico.

Phew! But good news is, I have new skis, and got to try them today! It was a rough start but by the end of the day I'd gotten used to the skis, luckily!

Tomorrow... my first two fillings EVER. :( ah well, I guess it happens to almost everyone!