Packet 2
Yesterday
We would like to learn what you did and how you felt yesterday. Not all days are the
same – some are better, some are worse and others are pretty typical. Here we are
only asking you about yesterday.
Because many people find it difficult to remember what exactly they did and
experienced, we will do this in three steps:
1. On the next page, we will ask you when you woke up and when you went to
sleep yesterday.
2. We'd like you to reconstruct what your day was like from the morning to the
evening. Where were you, who was with you, what did you do and
experience? Answering the questions on the next pages will help you to
reconstruct your day.
3. You will use the log in the next packet where you will answer more questions
about what you did and how you felt about each part of the day.
You are writing this log only to yourself and you do not need to turn it in. It will
help you remember and describe what happened yesterday.
To begin, please circle the day of the week that YESTERDAY was:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Log of yesterday
About what time did you wake up yesterday?
__________
And when did you go to sleep?
__________
About what time did you wake up today?
__________
Think of your day as a continuous series of scenes or episodes in a film. On the next
pages, you will construct a log of your day by breaking it into parts. The parts should
be periods of time that lasted at least 20 minutes but not more than two hours.
A new part begins when there is a significant change, like in what you’re doing or
who you’re with, or because something happened that changed your mood.
For each part, please write down when it began, when it ended and write a few words
that will help you remember it (for example, “commuting to work”, or “at lunch with
Jim”). Write down the approximate times at which each episode began and when it
ended.
There is one page for each part of the day – Morning (from waking up until
lunchtime), Afternoon (from lunchtime to about 6:00 pm) and Evening (the end of the
day). There is room for 10 episodes for each part of the day, but you will probably
not need that many. Remember that the episodes should last between twenty
minutes and two hours. Sequences of short routine activities like showering and
dressing should be grouped as a single episode. Use the breakdown of your day that
makes the most sense to you and best captures what you did and how you felt.
Try to remember each episode in detail, and write a label of a word or two that will
remind you of exactly what was going on and what you felt. What you write only has
to make sense to you, and to help you remember what happened when you answer
the questions in Packet 3.
You can keep what you write in your log if you wish. You will not turn in packet 2 with
the rest of your questionnaire.
Morning
(from waking up until just before lunch)
Time it
began
Time it
ended
Your label for this episode
1M
2M
3M
4M
5M
6M
7M
8M
9M
10M
Please look over this page once again. Is there is an episode that you would want to break
up into two parts? If so, make a note of that before moving on.
Afternoon
(from lunchtime to about 6:00 pm)
Time it
began
Time it
ended
Your label for this episode
1A
2A
3A
4A
5A
6A
7A
8A
9A
10A
Please look over this page once again. Is there is an episode that you would want to break
up into two parts? If so, make a note of that before moving on.
Evening
(the end of the day)
Time it
began
Time it
ended
Your label for this episode
1E
2E
3E
4E
5E
6E
7E
8E
9E
10E
Please look over this page once again. Is there is an episode that you would want to break
up into two parts? If so, make a note of that before moving on.
Thank You
You may now start on Packet 3.