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21 letters sent to IEPs for the fall study. for the rest: 2 schools are not giving names or addresses of directors so i wrote them to ask who i should contact; the others, their directors don't have PhDs so i don't know how to address them. and goodness, all those school webpages are so different... note to self: if i ever have my own iep, i'll make sure to have at least a nice faculty/staff page with email addresses and phone # and actual NAMES of people! i'm getting increasingly annoyed at poor web design!

it's a PAIN to verify all the names, addresses, degrees these people have, and to try to make every letter a little different from the previous one, and then to verify the font, the phone numbers, the attachement, my address, etc.! and that's only the schools for the fall study. now i need to start sending the letters for the pilot! someone shoot me! once, i couldn't be sure if the director had a phd or not so i wrote dear dr. such and such and thought "i don't care, whatever!" but then thought that i shouldn't make ennemies in this field (and since i want to be an IEP director myself...), nor lose potential participants by being stupid because i need those people!!!! so i took a break and tried breathing again... i've been doing this since 9:30 this morning and it's 3:30 right now... enough for today with that! let's work on other stuff...

work on the grant proposal: 3 hours for one page. totally unable to get to the second page! but worked on the budget stuff.

sent emails to 8 IEPs for the pilot (4 in the phily area). say a little prayer for me! if you read this and you work at an IEP, please let me know :)

(huhuh, just for fun and because i'm brain dead tonight, i counted how many emails i've sent today, between the ieps and the caucus stuff: exactly FIFTY! i've sent FIFTY emails today! god bless the queen!)