Well, I'm a little disappointed that more people didn't answer my movie questions. Which means no one really reads my blog I'm guessing. Sad. On another topic, and really the only reason I'm writing, is my senior honors project. I had my first meeting with my committee today, which left me stressed, nerve-wracked, and oddly exhausting. We covered so much that now I feel not just overwhelmed but a little lost. Which I shouldn't be, because this is my project. I feel like I was bombarded with ideas. I guess that's good, because it's helping me focus and work things out and figure out a timeline, and yikes, that was the scariest part because we figured out that I need to have most of my research done by early October. In case you hadn't noticed, that's in about 2 weeks. The reason for that is I need to apply to the IRB to be approved for the survey portion of the project. They make sure I'm doing everything correctly and appropriately, and luckily one of my committee members just happens to be on that so that should help get me approved! I need to do the surveying this semester, because apparantly analysis could take a month. Plus then there's the actual paper writing, which I'm now terrified to do. I was going to start it and work on it in portions throughout this semester, j-term, and then finish once I had my data analysis done, but now I'm no longer sure that I'll even have time to write-I barely have time to research! Well, now that the meeting is done, and we've parted, and I'm walking with one of my committee members (the one on the IRB board actually) she asks me if I've given any thought to publishing this when I was done! That was a shock. I admit, the thought did cross my mind briefly (and I mean briefly, 1/2 a second tops) but I haven't really given it much thought at all. I mean, I've barely started this, I'm not entirely sure of some of the directions it might take, and the end product is far, far away at this point. Publication is not something I'm considering at this point. Still, it was extremely flattering-I've never really ever considered having something of mine published, and pretty much all on my own too. Who knows? Maybe when it's done, if I like it, I'll see what steps I have to take. I'm sure my committee, if they like it too, would be happy to help me. Again, it's a ways off yet. We'll just see what the next few months bring.

“Do or do not... there is no try.”