Day 5 - also good!

A small but solid success! Concentration slipped at home, but I'd say it's worth it. Strolling home in the lingering orange sun of a midsummer's evening is every bit as sweet.
Perhaps the best success today is being able to speak calmly and assertively (more than usual anyway). I think my boss may have noticed it too. I also spoke more carefully, in a more organized manner, asserting a project leader role in an email I sent out to the group. I could feel my confidence building up, and I do realize, it's only a matter of my own will whether I take a leading role. It's somewhat sad that I have to learn this social behavior from meerkats.. but oh well, it's better than nothing. I finally realized I couldn't survive with my lone ranger style, I either had to lead or to follow. Between my only two options, I lead. I don't follow.
I did everything I set out to do, except for that paper that would bleach into tomorrow. But still, efficiency was not too bad.
Concentration: 75
Social: 91 (just an extra point more from yesterday for being calm and assertive, a completely different kind of progress in social behavior)!
Tomorrow:
1)Read the paper before meeting
2)tidy up protocol and practice presenting it as a project leader
3)work on NIH proposal some more. Boss actually liked Aim 1 ! Hooray!