Company picnic

Wow, my chair asked me and TH to come to the picnic. I already was going to and TH said yes. Without us no one from math/science would have been there. Don't get me wrong, the food is awful. That's not why we're there. For one they hand out the awards (congrats you've been trapped here forever, have a pin and a hand shake) and introduce new staff/faculty and give out tons of gift cards.

We're there for the gift cards (and I should have skipped dinner, that crap made me instantly sick) It's 2 hours of my life. I got a 20$ Buffalo Wild Wings gift card. I'm happy enough.

What's not making me happy 1. dentists 2. my research.

1. I do not like my current dentist. I tried to go back to my former one but yet again it was 6 weeks wait (I'm keeping that appt for now, might have him look at a different tooth) no one else in town is taking new patients. Even Aspen dental 40 miles away is backed up. Yay. So I'm going back to the one I don't exactly trust but eh he has the x-rays. I think we're beyond just filling this tooth. Might need a root canal...

2. I'm at the point of research where I'm regretting all my life choices. I was struggling to take notes. Evil Little Dog's suggestion was good. recording it worked but today I tried typing them in and ran into the same ADHD wall, not to mention the 'this is annoying wall' and 'I'm doing twice the work for nothing wall.'

So tomorrow I'm going to try to use Microsoft's voice to text to see if I can convert the recordings to text (even if it's a mess) if not, then typing slowly it is. That said I think from here on out I need to try to use that dictate software to do it that way or type as I read. I have too many how did I spell that? is that date right? did you go look this up nonsense.

I am honestly beginning to wonder how any non fiction books get written. This is a massive undertaking that I seriously underestimated. My coworkers keep telling me I'm doing well with it. I'm not great at believing it.