Psychoblog

glad it’s friday. been quite a stressful week. had a big meeting with my supervisor on monday that i went into work over last weekend to prepare for. went okay in the end, but highlighted a few areas i really need to focus more on. never a bad thing i suppose. then did an hour long talk to the speech therapists at the local hospital. that went well i think. they asked lots of questions and were generally very interested in what i had to say. it was good for me too though. forced me to review my thinking on the relationship between fMRI research and speech therapy. made me realise the potential that fMRI has for informing future therapy practises. just needs a bit more development of techniques in fMRI studies of language before it can all become a wonderful reality. hope i can be part of it.

scaryscary stuff happened too. my supervisor emailed really top person in the “functional imaging of language” field to ask them about being my external examiner…and they said yes(!). it will be really cool to meet her in person and talk about my research, after reading so many of her papers, but a less scary environment than a phd viva would be lots more comfortable. it will be a valuable experience though and i am very grateful she has agreed to do this for me.

other things i am concentrating on at the moment is more wedding preparation stuff. really need to get the invitations out now. we think we know what invites we are going with, just need to get the free samples they have sent us so we can see what they will really look like. it is just over 4 months to the big day now. it’s coming really quickly now and becoming more real the closer it gets. very exciting and scary too at the same time. i am having difficulty imagining me walking down the aisle on the day in a big dress, veil and flowers. all seems very surreal.

just for the record, me and carl have been together (officially) for 5 years and 5 months as of today.

hometime soon. hoorah.