am at work and have been minimally active all day, with little to do in anesthesiology but read, so am antsy and decided to write.
I would like to point out that it is JP's b day tomorrow, do not forget!
so dad is back from Germany. I will be going out to Hanover Sunday to visit him and get teh subaru inspected. some yard work will probably happen, but I am expecting to hear stories of germanz.
ze germanz.
anyway, work is going fine. my neonatal study is so close to being finished that the wait is unbearable: 6 more participants to receive completed forms from and then we have 85 and can do "power" analyses. what that means is less than 85 participants would not yield statistically significant results. so we are at 79 and I have been recruiting new people just in case the ones that we are waiting for replies from do not get back to us. but I just want the study to be done, and to run and frolic in teh beautiful spring weather. anesthesiology is fine, we are finishing up our data cleaning so that we can start analyzing the data for a paper (or two or three). I have been involved in very tedious cleaning of the data. cleaning doesn't mean weeding out the people whose data do not support the hypotheses (hehe), but instead to make sure that everyone's variables were coded in the same way, to make sure the same thing is being measured for each person. there have been a couple "wanting to bang my head against the wall" moments, but we are almost done. tomorrow we are having a research seminar poster day here at CHOP, where faculty and staff can show off what they have been up to. both of the posters for my studies will be there, and it's another little feather on my cap for my credentials.
I am going to try messing around with some t-shirts designs for valtam,inc. have some ideas brewing. keep up the good work!
gotta go.
love,
H
- posted by H @ 5/19/2005 05:39:00 PM