wispfox

4 more revision papers to grade, an exam or two to grade, and then I can focus on my modeling and biopsych classes (modeling project and paper, exam and paper, respectively) for a bit. I shall be waiting to start grading the final paper until after I've made huge progress in my classes! (I may need to rush on some people, depending on if I have seniors. I think they tend to need grades earlier than everyone else, in Spring, so they can graduate)

Squares Plus calls hurt my brain! Possibly my brain is just full, because I'm mixing up calls that I actually _know_. It's like my brain hears one thing and decides to act as if as different - equally plausible - thing was said. Handily, the pre-squares teaching time helped for last week's calls, so presumably next week's will do the same for this. Only a few more weeks of classes left in squares, plus the week following class finishing is evidently important to attend. Then I shall go sometimes because fun and because getting calls thoroughly into my brain, but not _must_ so I can finish the class. Maybe next semester try to learn the boys parts of relevant calls...

Will definitely take a week or two off after I submit the grades for the final papers. Probably puttering around the garden and going for walks and other things I've not been doing enough of. Then, playing catchup for all the research-related things I haven't been doing all this school year.

Fourth year talks in December, involving talking about the major underpinnings of my research. Thus, much literature to parse through! And I really, really want to see if I have anything significant in my finally finished data collection project and maybe try to publish a paper on that. And need to come up with my next study and maybe even start running it this summer. My poor, neglected research. I really wish I had useful analysis software on my laptop, rather than having to use school machines. But SPSS refused to install when I tried to get a license, and SAS also refused. R is painful to use.

I like people. Going to squares yesterday meant that when walking to the T I was pleased about random people I wandered by. Perhaps in part because they weren't asking me to grade papers or work on my model or write papers or study, but _still_. It's been a while since I had the brain space to just simply like people. I don't like not liking humans. (understanding them is an entirely different thing!)

Wonder if people are no longer trying to be separate instances of various aspects of themselves and are again integrated? I could believe that the liking of people and integrating aspects of specific people are related...

Eating lunch outside in my garden is dangerous. I am _far_ too prone (see yesterday morning) to seeing a plant I want to eradicate and just... attacking it. For hours. Um.

Ok, enough of a break, back to finishing grading those last 4 papers! So close!