- I'm officially running both of my research studies pretty much completely independently. The Nurse Practicioner who was training me has moved on to her new role (still in my program) and has some supervisory duties, but I'm essentially flying solo now. Which means that I get to implement the changes in our patient screening and enrollment data-management that I've been developing for a few weeks. What that really means is I get to move a bunch of data from one old ad-hoc spreadsheet system to my shiny new spreadsheet system.

- My little brothers have a marching band exhibition tonight, and I'm lucky enough to live ~30 mins from the venue. It's always a strange thing to see them doing things that I have memories of doing. Band, band never changes.

- Second appointment with the new counselor on Saturday morning. Talk therapy doesn't work for everyone, but it seems to do a lot for me. I'm SUPER curious to see what he has to say after reviewing our notes from last week.

- Summer is coming to a close in Michigan. There's a chill in the air in the mornings, and one of my co-workers brought in a basket of apples from the first orchard open to public picking. Which means I want to get one last trip in to the beach before the lakes start to freeze. The trick is finding other people who want to go this late in the season D: