I'm still alive and happy.

Our proposal presentation went well. No major issues arose during the open forum; in my view at least. Just many many revisions in the data collection tool and I really liked that.

During the small group discussion that followed, many issues poured forth. The issues weren't really surprising ones as we already anticipated them and made back-up plans instead they were brought up.

Big changes in the sample size and study population and some re-arranging and revising of the tool is all that we need to do. And we need to write down our operational definitions of study variables. Fortunately, we already made operational definitions, we just didn't write them down.