funny funny life!

for the last 3 weeks i've been trying to call mr. X, director of one school, to ask him to participate to my pilot. we'd talked about 8 weeks ago and he told me maybe... so i wanted to know. but couldn't reach him for the life of me! meetings, teaching, lunch, vacation, conference... there was always something. so this morning, as i opened my folder with all my addresses and phone numbers, i made the decision to give up on that school. after all, i wanted to do the pilot next week, and given the length of irb procedures, i'd never be able to do the pilot at that school anyway. so there, i crossed the school's name with my red pen! my pilot is going to suck, i'll have 5 participants, but oh well, at least i'll have tried! that was at 8 this morning.

at 9:30 this morning, i got a phone call from a certain mrs. Y from that school. she said she was the co-director and wanted to know what i was trying to do. i explained my study to her, the deadlines, the irb, all that stuff. she said how many students do you need? i said i'd be super happy with 20! she said ok, i'll help, send me 100 questionnaires for the students and 10 for the teachers! huh??? and then she gave me her phone number at her office and at home and said call me any time when you know more about the irb!

i thought, this is too good, the irb is never going to work, the last school said they needed EIGHT weeks to review my protocol! so i called, explained that it was for a pilot, that i was at purdue, and THANK GOODNESS, because that school is somehow related to IUPUI, which is somehow related to purdue, they said it'd take them only ONE WEEK to review the paperwork! Hah! I still need to sign the thing and have the co-director of the school sign it before i can send it to the irb, but i'm thinking i might just drive there, it's about 3-4 hours away, not too bad, and it'd make things go much faster.

haha, funny isn't it? now i don't think she'll get 100 students, except if their program has 300 students or something... which it might... but even if i get only FIFTY student questionnaires back, my life is saved, i will have a very decent pilot! the only trouble is, she'll do it in 2 weeks, and i don't think the other school is going to do it anytime sooner, since that one's irb hasn't been approved yet, so i won't have my results until the middle of july... and then there's the translations :( :( :( one month for 12 languages?? bets are open!

Chinese >26,000
Korean >10,000
Japanese >10,000
Taiwanese >4,000
Spanish >3,000
Portuguese >2,000
French (Quebec, Africa, Belgium, Switzerland) >1,000
Turkish >1,000
German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) >1,000
Italian >1,000

If I have to stop at 10 I'll stop here.

Thai >900
Arabic <900