i know them!

i've just realized one cool thing: i know a LOT of the people i've cited in my lit review:

amin
medgyes
braine
cheung
kamhi-stein
lee
liu
mahboob
matsuda
rampton
pessoa
tang
kachru
moussu (haha)
maum
etc.

and all these people know other people that i have cited... and through the nnest email list, i can have access to more than 500 people who have written stuff about my research... so basically, i need ANYTHING and i can get it somehow from someone very quickly. for example, i wanted maum's dissertation and the library was going to take a while, so i emailed her (we presented at tesol together or something like that)and she sent me a copy of her dissertation a few days later. very cool! i'm lucky! and then i can write "personal communication" all the time too, about braine or medgyes, for example, who are super big important famous and everything else... it feels good to know the right people!