alea jacta est

yesterday i sent some emails about the in-class issue. wasn't easy. one director wrote back right away and said it wasn't a problem, he'd distribute the questionnaires at the end of class and have the students fill them out at home or during the break. then i called byu and joyce, this wonderful friend, said she'd take care of it and get the questionnaires distributed in class too. thanks joyce!

i also wrote an email to the nnest caucus e-list and asked them for help. i only got two responses so far. one that told me about u of u, a program that i could use for my pilot and i have to call back on monday (but it's a little late now for the pilot since i want to do it in a couple of weeks!). the other number was from a grad student about a school in arkansas, and i called right away, got the director instantly, explained my project in 2 sentences and he said yes, he'd be very happy to help, PLUS i could just send him purdue's irb approval and i didn't need to do anything else! OMG! ok it's a small school, and i might have about 20 participating students and 4-5 teachers only, but that's GREAT and i couldn't believe my luck on that one! just like that, the guy was super nice!!! i wrote back to the grad student and said THANK YOU!

today, i filed two paper irb protocols that i will have to mail on monday (one with the first paper letter i got from an iep director saying she'll sponsor me and agrees to participate), finished my online questionnaires (they're SUPER NICE, thanks to the help i got from ljvd!), and also started thinking about finding a job! margie keeps telling me not to worry about it until october but i talked to other people who said i should have asked for letters of recommendation from my major professors to be written at the end of spring semester! i don't know who i can ask. dr. henrichsen, margie, T., B. (who said ok but he doesn't know me at all so he'll wait until i get some work done on my dissertation), and maybe i should ask dr. gappa, from the higher ed administration dept, since i had two classes with her. dr. A. wouldn't write anything nice about me, which is sad since he'd be the one who could write about my work at the elc... dr. T. maybe? he never replies to his emails. who was the previous director of the elc??? oh, dr. G.... nah.... haha, i just thought of Chantal Thompson! don't think she'd like that. chris? maybe. mmmm.... tough decisions!