DIEZ!!!

the proper pronunciation of the title requires you to throw your hands up in the air and yell. That is how my 2 year old niece says "Diez".

Welp. 10 days left. I'm jamming to some old school 90's hits (thanks Destiny's Child) to keep myself focused and working. I only made it till 3pm before taking a break.

Here's the updated to do list.
- finish rough draft of directory
- write short paper topic 2
- write book review for RA training
- write short paper topic 5
- write weekly log week 11
- write critique of research design
- write final report
- write freshman on the hall letters
- make final presentation
- write weekly log week 12

6 things. 10 days. well, at least that's a positive ratio. I think I'd die if it was the other way around. As I was scribbling things down on post it notes, checking my planner every 5 minutes to make changes to it, and drinking Diet Coke, I realized I had this feeling before. It's stress. but not cultural, socially depressing stress like it's normally been this summer. No, it's the "Finals week" stress! EEEKK!

Seriously, The drive for caffeine, the dark eyes, the millions of post-it notes stuck all over every visible surface of my work area; it's the finals week of the summer. But! the good thing about this is that I don't remember much from past finals week and they went by really fast! So, hopefully that will be the case, but that also requires me to make about a dozen trips to Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts to make it through.

Continue praying for:
- focus, energy and perseverance. These papers are heinous to write because they have to be a certain length and in my context, sometimes I don't have that much to say on the subject. Thus, I never look forward to writing one of them and they take me twice as long to write than I expect.
- Oh um focus- that I don't check out of here mentally before getting into my packed car and driving home.
- the other interns. 2 of them are finishing their internship this week, 3 of us are finished next week, and the rest keep trickling home. For some, there's a lot of hours to spend traveling airport to airport, others are spending some hours in a car to get home. Pray for safety and health for them and perseverance and energy as well. I'm sure they're all just as eager as I am to be done with all this work.

alright NSYNC, let's get back to work.