Well tomorrow is the first day of December, which officially marks the home stretch towards the end of the semester. To be honest, ever since coming back from the Thanksgiving holiday, I haven't been cranking out work as well as I know I can be. Maybe it's the colder temperatures (it was 5 degrees on Tuesday when I walked to the bus stop, talk about an eye opener) or the shrinking amount of daylight or just some mental wear and tear, but it's taking just a little bit more to get me going on some assignments. Not a great time for this to happen as this is the time of the year when all those final papers are due, final exams will be here soon, and that master's project isn't going to write itself.
Yesterday was an interesting day in working on my master's project. For the last few weeks, I have been working hard on developing my questionnaire for the key actor interviews that I will be conducting. Developing interview questions sounds easy, but man, I've written at least four drafts, and every time I meet with my advisers we find new ways to tear it up and improve the questions. I believe with each meeting it improves, but it can be tedious. Then again, this stage of the project is surely the most critical. If we develop bad questions and then do the interviews, then we're going to end up with bad and perhaps inconclusive results, in which case the project would have been a wash. I am getting more and more excited about the project, and will keep you posted as I conduct some of the interviews.
Last night was a break from my sub par production level. My friend, my brother and I went to a bar to watch the Packers - Cowboys matchup, which unfortunately did not go my way. Afterwards my friend and I met up with one of my friends from the PHAP program and hung out at Rudolph's for awhile. Some of us PHAPers are going to get together soon to make some Christmas cookies to get us through these final weeks of the semester. No matter what holiday you celebrate, you can't turn down a Christmas cookie, you just can't!
OK, still need to write another draft of questions tonight and perhaps look at a Finance case study that is due for Monday. See you around the blog!