IRB mon amour

i am stuck with one school's irb. they won't accept something, legally, and i don't know what to do. for now, i spend hours on the phone trying to get things to work, but it looks rather bad, which is sad, since the school director is very nice and trying to help...

i was thinking about the questions i can be asked on a job interview: what is your greater strength? now i can say THE IRB! i could give entire classes or workshops on how to work with this thing, help faculty, students, be the contact person for anyone who's as stuck as me, the intermediary, the mediator... huhuh... seriously, at first it was hard to fill out all those forms, but now i know the vocabulary, i know what they want to hear, i know how to say what i want to say... i'm the QUEEN OF THE IRB! .... well except with this one school... what a pain!

other than that, i keep working on my chapter 2, which is getting pretty good. i make piles of articles: those i need to read, those i have read, those i should read again, those i'll use for section 2.3, those i'll use for section 2.4, those for section 2.5, those i need to add in chapter 1, those for chapter 3... piles and piles of articles all over the house, and then the cats play and fight and run everywhere and mess it all up!

yesterday i tried to get a break, because i'm so tired of being at home all day all night all week and just be in front of my computer 20 hours a day... so i took my garcia marquez book and went to panera, which was a bad idea. i hadn't been there in 3 months! bad sandwich, bad music, bad service, ... and they don't even have my favorite salad that they have every summer! won't go back. but it was nice to go out, see the world again!

back to work... let's fill out UW's irb protocol...