mars attack

$2778.40 is the price I will need to pay for the translations of my questionnaires. TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND FOURTY CENTS! ALMOST THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! OMG!!!!! hopefully they take the American Express card... i decided to start even if i haven't done the pilot. i can't wait. it takes 3 weeks to get the first draft in other languages... which reminds me that I should translate the damn thing in French myself, one of these days. Oh goodness, this is the end of me. and I KNOW that i won't get the grant i applied for in may, because it SUCKED! i re-read it a few weeks after i had sent it and it looked like a 5-year old kid had written it!

wrote another section in my chapter 1, called "personal experience" or something like that... don't know if my committee will like it. anyway... i also added stuff in chapters 2 and 3... it's getting there. other than that, i've been working on the IAWE stuff since the conference is coming soon, and i need to start preparing my presentation... haven't a clue what i'll talk about. have also had many email exchanges with the person i want to write that Language Teaching article with, and it looks like we're going to do it. he'll come to IAWE in a couple of weeks, so we'll chat some more about the article then.

i'm kinda bored actually. i can't write more than 3-4 hours a day, and well, there is really nothing else i can do! i made an appointment with the statistics consultant for next week so she'll tell me what to do with the data i'll hopefully get some day from the pilot. other than that... nada... i watch movies, sneeze constantly, read blogs, and sleep. i should start getting ready for the two classes i'll teach in the fall...

ps. i was surprised to see that arabic is an orthographic language... not complaining, hey, it's cheaper that way :) but i would have put it together with chinese, japanese, thai, korean and taiwanese. not with spanish. does orthographic mean that it's one letter = one sound? orthographic = non-pictographic? (dumb question for a linguist, i agree)