appointment made

I quickly berried myself into the final revision of the IRB package after my weekly Friday morning ocean swim. From the peer feedback yesterday, I know I need to also create a list of proposed interview questions. Searching backup files from back in my doctoral-student time for examples. Not a hard thing to do as qualitative research likes to keep the door open for allowing emerging themes, or as my method advisor would say, when things bubble up to the surface. I cleaned up everything, created three slightly different version of the consent forms, updated the 1-page description, added the interview question. Printed 2 copies, signed. Done.

I called the IRB office and made an appointment with them on Monday morning to walk over my application before final submission. The program is about to start in 2 weeks and I want this to be ready for it. Things are moving along.

I feel the stress in meeting deadline I set for myself. How can we function without man-made deadlines? I was listening to a podcast the other day and the subject was "doing nothing." As an unenlightened being, I will not be able to survive this brutal world if I do nothing.

Or maybe I just did not understand what "do nothing" meant.