Well.  I got up at 5 am this morning.  I wrote 66 new words and revised 4 paragraphs.

Not exactly off to the races, but it is something.  I’d do more tonight, but since I plan to write here more I thought I should give the place a little face lift.  Plus, the DH is home, and I don’t often get to see him these days, so I figure I should take advantage of it — when I am done here.

An interesting thing is happening at work.  There is a consultant who wants to work in the field.  She has submitted to a local conference and been accepted, so now I am trying to mentor her through this process.  What I am experiencing, is I guess what every new professor experiences, it’s just taken a little more on the job time for me to get there.  Anyway, about that experience …

It is really weird to hear your own ideas spoken back to you.  Well, it’s not exactly my ideas, she has her own views, but I can see the influence her training with my program has had on her ideas.  Generally, I don’t think of myself as someone with a lot of influence, so it took me by surprise to have that realization during our meeting today.

Daily word total: 284