Healthyliving

My blog tries to relate everyday happenings to a healthy outlook on life while in perrsuit of living a healthy life in the best way a know how. My belief is that no matter how tough life gets there's always something positive to be gained from our experiences.

Monday, August 01, 2005

Venting Time

Today I was so excited. We were consolidating our research paper for publishing and as a group we enjoyed our days work. We read through the paper in what we thought was a thorough manner. We made comments to eachother and changed a few bits. We all went home confident of the parts we were going to present. Going with the positive yen, I decided to follow my regular Pilates video and really go to relax land. After supper I enjoyed a 90 minute hike up Pine Tree (radar hill) . I even jogged the last two km. to my car.
I had no idea what awaited me shortly after I arrived home. Michele, Jill, Colin and myself were attempting to have a conference call. I was also trying to print off what was now confirmed as a correlational study. My printer was not operating from my main home computer, and my attempts to copy a disk were killed because I did not have MS word installed on my laptop. Luckily my hubby changed the printer setting and then printed off my document. In the 11th hour, Michele finally confirmed what some of our group was thinking; that our research question in fact did not match that of the conclusion or purpose or the outcomes very well. Now we have to spend tomorrow fixing up our report and we haven't got the presentation planned. Okay, I am very stressed right now, and it's undone all that exercising effort. Never assume the chickens are safe because your coop might have a hole for the sly fox to squeeze through. And that's just what's happened. We'll be the flappin'chickens tomorrow trying to be saved from the big bad researchers who almost had us in the stewing pot.
Thanks to Colin and Michele who verified our confusion, and have been a tremendous help hashing through the research report we had chosen. Remember fellow students, the Question must jel with purpose and outcomes of the research or it's probably not sound research!
Well I feel better now that I got this out. Now it's time to focus on tomorrow,cause tomorrow's another day.

1 Comments:

  • At 11:59 AM, Blogger Michele said…

    Oh no! Evaluating research reports isn't meant to be soooo stressful! But you did a really fantastic job with your final write-up and presentation, and I would never have guessed the anxiety behind it all if I hadn't read your blog! Well done!

     

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