Phew?
I knocked out several report type items that I’ve had on my to do list for a while, some of them for several months. I should feel happy and accomplished now but for some reason I am obsessing about the remaining items on my to do list that I want to cross off. I have a few items that will take me longer than expected. My report for the program evaluation will take me until the first week of March because I want to incorporate my thesis student’s work and I have a six day vacation towards the end of February. The analysis I’m working on where I’m saying that we need to look at trauma and dissociation among people of color and not just predominately white people will take me longer to do because the R class I’m taking online does not cover the necessary basics. I’m impatient to know R already so I can work on that and several other projects. I learned more about the variables that someone wants to hire me to create too. I think I’m going to have to contact the depart of health whose data I’d be using to see if the data would actually be sufficient to create the variables. I’m hoping that I don’t have to pool across years to create the variables because doing that in R and bothering with survey weights sounds like a lot of coding trial and error. Err, onwards and upwards? I wish I felt happier about what I accomplished today.