Monday Stupor

I can't quite tell whether or not I'm sick today. Saturday I stayed in bed all day and drank chicken soup. Sunday I was bouncing around feeling great. Today my head is swimming and I have the chills. I'm keeping up with the work at work, though slightly more slowly than usual. It's Halloween and I'm being antisocial and hiding in my cubicle from fairies and goth punks randomly patrolling the halls.

Some of the ladies and I went to Wiard's Apple Orchard and Country Fair yesterday and had much fun. We went on the hayride, visited the petting zoo (did you know that goats have rectangular pupils????), and were chased around the haunted barn. It was much fun and a perfect way to spend an autumn afternoon. It was restful walking around and seeing families leisurely camped out at picnic tables munching on caramel apples, doughnuts and cider.

With my flight/hotel booked to Palm Springs, CA for the SPSP (Society of Personality and Social Psychology) conference in January (thanks Daddy!), I'm now concentrating on submitting my Psych research on coping to other conference. I just submitted a presentation to the MPA (Midwestern Psychological Association) conference in Chicago in May. Next step is to submit maybe even both of my research to the APA (American Psychological Association) conference in New Orleans in August, and the APS (American Psychological Society) conference in New York City in May. The poster I'm presenting at Palm Springs is about how romantic relationship contingency predicts symptoms of disordered eating, and how this relationship is mediated by feelings of body shame. The poster I'm submitting to the rest of the conferences is a paper I'm currently working on about how situational factors mediate the relationship between individual factors and coping styles. It's fascinating stuff in the area of Applied Social Psychology (which is the field I'm leaning toward for grad school).