baaaad week

didn't do much this week. i worked maybe 3-4 hours per day only, which sucks. i couldn't do it. worries about my health, the family, the heat... and i also needed a break. i worked soooo much the two weeks after i came back from france! so this week i called a few more schools, found a few more participants, lost some too (in particular a good school i had for my pilot, that's dramatic!), got a few irb approvals, filled out a few new irb protocols, revised some old ones, finished my chapter 1 and turned it in. and watched a few movies, and started reading the autobiography of gabriel garcia marquez. wonderful book!

yesterday, i worked maybe 5-6 hours on my second and third chapters. have 20 pages for chapter 2 + 7 pages of references. i can't really write much for chapter 3 because it's all about the methods and procedures, and i'm barely starting my pilot. but i can write a lot about how i got here, how i created my questionnaires, how i pre-tested them and stuff like that. i'm very happy i wrote much of it on this blog, now i just have to go back and take notes. today i want to keep working on chapter 2 and add one section that i have never written anything about before and read very little about, so basically it's going to be detective work today!

i've decided to put my small computer on my desk in my living-room, where i don't have access to the internet, and i write my dissertation on that computer only. that way, i can't check my email every 5 minutes and respond to my other blog comments every 10 minutes. won't be able to do that during the week, though, since i get approximately 20 emails per hour and need to have access to irb and school webpages and old emails and stuff that's only on my big computer in my room all the time. but during the weekend, since all i do is write, it helps.

... back to work...