A Quickie

Hey all. Still alive, yes, yes. CQ Reunion at Auckland Zoo on the weekend. Spent a solid 3 -4 hours painting people's faces. Loved studying their contours and applying colour. Loved asking the kids what they wanted to be and enabling it. Love playing with kids. Loved seeing AP, who is turning 12 next month.

I turned 23 today. So much gratitude for my friends and family. So many kind words from far and wide, from unexpected corners. Thank you so so so much. Every word, every action, every smile and hug. Everything. So much impact on me right now. I needed this right now. I only hope I can be a source of light, too.

Found this a couple of weeks ago when answering a questionnaire about the quality of PhD supervision. It asked me how confident I was in the items below:

• Train and supervise research assistants
• Perform research procedures to collect data
• Identify and report limitations of a study
• Attend to all relevant details of data collection
• Effectively edit your writing to make it logical and succinct
• Analyze research data
• Synthesize results with regard to current literature
  
• Write method and results section for a research article or similar publication
  
• Ensure data collection is reliable across trial, raters and/or equipment
  
• Effectively write a research article or similar publication on your own
  
• Organize your proposed research ideas in writing
  
• Write an introduction and literature review for a research article or similar publication
  
• Choose appropriate data analysis techniques
  
• Identify implications for future research
  
• Incorporate feedback to improve your research design or write-up
  
• Develop a logical rationale for your research idea
  
• Generate researchable questions
  
• Interpret and understand data analyses
  
• Synthesize current literature
  
• Choose an appropriate research design
  
• Identify areas of needed research, based on reading the literature
  
• Utilize criticism from reviews of your ideas
  
• Write a discussion section for a research article or similar publication
  
• Obtain approval to pursue research (e.g., approval from appropriate Ethics Committee)

Holy fudging crap cakes. But damn that's me in the intermediate-future. I hope.

Meanwhile, V addiction is creeping up on me. So, none of that tomorrow.

Songs of late: Something's Missing and Split Screen Sadness. Both by John Mayer:





Eurgh I can't check their quality for you, because Telecom is being a floater.

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