Positive Note

I feel really happy about how well my committee meeting went yesterday. I was brimming with pride because aside from finishing my work for a degree, my wonderful advisor Ellen nominated me for my second student excellence award--this time for my paper on emotional intelligence in the workplace. In all honesty, I don't know what makes it worthy of that in her mind--I told her that it just made me wonder how bad everyone else's work was. Geez, Nicole, way to discount yourself! Also, she and John both assuaged my fears about graduate school by saying that they both think I'd do great in grad school, and they said they don't just say that to people. I believed them. Also, I faced my extreme fear about having my first mammogram, then having to go for follow-up pictures and ultrasounds. I hope anyone reading this is doing well and hanging in there too. We can all support each other and that makes everything easier. The times that are hardest for me are when I don't talk about my issues, and as a result, I think I'm the only one having these issues. But when I talk to other people who have dealt or are dealing with the same stuff, everything seems a lot more manageable.