finally!

finally one small good news: i got one grant, the smallest one but it's better than nothing since i won't be working this summer. it's only for 2 months.... but it'll allow me to survive. i still need to work on the tirf proposal, that's the BIG one that i MUST get! cross your fingers. it's due may 31, so i'll work on it more after the end of the semester.

i went to xiaoye's dissertation defense today. overall it seemed easy, even though a few questions were tricky. but he did well and he did great! he said the only requirement of penn state, when they hired him, was the he'd write a book out of his dissertation and get it published, and then he'd get tenure. hah, i wouldn't like that! but he'll make it, he's good, i wish i had his drive and motivation!

so i'm still stuck with my article and my research... nothing from the stats dept, nothing from george, nothing from my advisor, this drives me crazy! so i keep reading about how to write great questionnaires (which only scares me even more) and guess i'll spend a weekend doing NOTHING! YEAH!!!!!