and so goes the story...

that i now have 18 schools that said OK (no IRB yet...) and six schools that didn't say no for the big study in the fall. the rest either said no or didn't say anything yet. I can't believe that I've been calling people non-stop for the last four days now and there are still people that i haven't been able to reach! conferences, meetings, classes, out of the office, busy.... and I call, and I call, and I call!

i got one school that i thought wouldn't work, but the students will have to fill out the questionnaires outside of class time. i don't know if i'll use those surveys... that's difficult to decide. the lady who was asking me tons of questions yesterday and who was kind of skeptical kept asking me questions today. i think she just doesn't understand the point of my study, because she said i should write a specific definition of the "native speaker" on my questionnaires so that the students would know what i'm talking about... but the point is that i want to know what the STUDENTS think is a native speaker!

wrote another proposal to tesol and am working on the colloquium, but i invited six people to participate and tesol says six is the maximum INCLUDING the organizer... oops... not sure what i'll do there...

nothing on the grant proposal... but i finished the budget and will fax it tomorrow. i'm trying to eat everything that's in my fridge before i go but i haven't eaten out for like three weeks (that's wonderful news for the bank account!) and i need something else than salads, cereals, pasta, and omelets. might go out for dinner tomorrow. but who cares?

if anyone needs a language program director/associate director or teacher educator/ESL/TESOL program administrator or something like that, please LET ME KNOW! i'm scared to death about this job market thing!