michigan

not much done this weekend since i went to michigan for my sister's birthday. wrote a proposal for a tesol presentation (on my own, not one of the big colloquiums), worked on the all-caucus colloquium, and updated the IAWE website with tons of info margie gave me on friday.

i came back this afternoon and called two IEPs and got their approvals... yeah... that's about 11 schools now, but again, it's not because the schools say yes that i'll manage to do all the IRB paperwork or that their IRB will approve my stuff! but it's a good start! and tonight, thanks to time zones, i was able to call one more school in california and the guy said yes, no problem... except that the program might not run if they don't have enough students! but he was super nice! there's hope. i haven't really started working on the IRB stuff yet. called purdue's IRB office to ask them if they could help with other schools' IRB paperwork but they said no :(

this week, besides the eternal and continuous phone calls, i need to work on the grant proposal and try to finish the book review. what am i forgetting?? oh yeah, the budget that was due saturday... and all the colloquium proposals... and something new, but i'm not sure i'll start before i come back from europe:

I NEED TO START LOOKING FOR A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR (academic year 2006)!!! if ANYONE needs an intensive program coordinator or co-director or something like that or knows someone who needs one, please LET ME KNOW!!! oh my goodness, this is SCARY!!