time to kill

it took me, door to door, 19 hours yesterday to go from my hotel in san antonio to my apartment in lafayette! yep! totally unfun! i am so stressed out and overwhelmed with work that i haven't had time to eat a real meal since lunch on sunday, nor to take a shower for that matter, and it's not good!

so i got exactly FOURTY questionnaires back from international students (20 from teachers who are native speakers of english and 20 from nonnative teachers). i also got 10 student interviews! that's good. i called the statistics consultants and hope to meet with them next week to discuss what to do with the results of the pilots and how to work on the questionnaire.

i heard back from the irb: minor changes my behind!!!! they want, among others, that i give them the TRANSLATED versions of the questionnaires but i don't think so! i'll work on the rest... but i've made one decision: NO INTERVIEWS with the iep students/teachers/administrators. i just called the irb because i was confused about some of their stuff, and they said it'd be insanely complicated to do the interviews too.

and trust me, don't become chair of anything. it looks nice on your resume but it's a lot of work!!!