once upon a time in the midwest...

so, i'm redoing ONE of the protocols, the easier one. can't afford to lose so many programs.

am going to indy today to buy a plane ticket for baltimore, in october. kinda dumb to go there in october, but that's the only time off that i'll have during the semester. oh well. i'll see bequi there, who's just accepted a job there. and will go visit umbc, those guys are cool.

i have 7 teachers and 2 admins already. iu still hasn't given me their approval and umbc is overwhelmed with work and already doing all they can to help, so... i'm breathing deep... in.... out.... and making the decision to start working on the final questionnaire WITHOUT having had the results of the second pilot. i MUST send the stuff to be translated by the end of next week so i have no choice. my project will suck, but oh well, what can i do? i'll meet with the stats consultat next tuesday or wednesday, and i also want to meet with one of the psych guys to make sure everything's ok before i go with the final stuff.

i'm working on my cv these days. it's very nice now, 7 pages, huhuh. i'm annoyed because i haven't heard back from ET even thoug they said 6 weeks (it's been 11) and i wrote them an email to enquire too, on monday... i wish i could write that article as forthcoming, at least...

yesterday i got enric's book from the library. OMG, this book is exactly what i need!!!! except that it's $129 at amazon... i have it for one week in interlibrary loan, i guess it's better than nothing for now, i'll just have to read super quickly and take good notes. it's kinda cool that i'll meet him next week and that we'll write that article together, i'm excited.

talking about next week, this weekend will be super intensive preparation of the iawe and aila conferences, one next friday and then the other one the following friday in madison! holly cow, i am NOT ready for these presentations!!!! (kinda excited to go to madison for the first time, though).

ok, i'm off to indy. good thing it's not raining, i hate to drive in the rain!