CHAPTER TWO

15 pages on chapter 2... it's going well so far.

yesterday morning i sent the questionnaires to one school which is participating in the pilot. they said they'll do this week! and pay for the photocopying + mail. nice! i also mailed 2 paper IRB protocols, talked to two directors about distributing the student questionnaires in class--they said they'd do it... one of them is this one school which is bothering me a lot, asking for incentives for the teachers, etc., and i still don't know what to do with this school. the only good thing about this school is that i called their irb and it looks like it won't be tooooo difficult to deal with that one. so we'll see. i also wrote a statement of "invitation to participate" in my project because some schools requested it.

so bascially i have about 25 schools i'm dealing with right now and doing their IRB stuff. + the pilot schools. that's not bad. and that's a LOT of work, but i realize that people call me and say "hi, it's such and such" and i know immediately from what school, who is the director, and what the situation with that school is, etc. it's nice. i'm really getting to know people!

yesterday i also wrote two emails to the director of graduate studies of the engl. dept or something and to mike brzezinski. i realized with horror that i took two higher ed classes in the spring, then margie said it'd be too much and i got one with pass/fail, and then margie said it'd still be too much and i dropped one... and kept the pass/fail one... without realizing that that would give me only 3 graded classes for my secondary area... and i need 4! so the law class i took in the spring doesn't count! and all this time i thought i was taking an "extra" class... i guess i was! but that means i need to find 3 other credits in administration before next summer!!! so i wrote to mike, who's a nice guy, and asked him if he'd give me some work at the international student office and pay me with credits. that way, i would get some experience in administration too. knock on wood!

in the afternoon and evening, i didn't do anything. i spent almost 3 hours in the molecular imaging something center and when i came out, i was shaking and really mad and crying... so i didn't do anything else after that. just watched the english patient. life really sucks sometimes! oh, and when i got back, a phone bill was waiting for me for $116... only $13 of that is international!

... ok, back to work... life goes on, for now...