PR

that one thing i should have done this summer, instead of buying a plane ticket to go to delaware in october: go to all those schools that seemed pretty sure and whose irb didn't seem impossible and meet the people. i can tell, now, that the one director i have met at aila will not likely tell me that they can't do it after all. she was presenting at the same time i did and i left a message with someone i knew and who knew her, to say i was sorry i couldn't meet her, and then i ran after my presentation to see if she was still in the room where she presented and she was. she said she was touched that i really tried to meet her. i just said it was nice to be able to put a face to the name i saw on so many emails. which is true. i really didn't realize the impact of that 2-minute long meeting until now. i should have skimmed the program book and gone to madison earlier to meet other people, if any.

well there was for sure one other person... huhuh... the chair of aila... whom i didn't meet personally but i went to a presentation where she talked a little. i didn't make an effort to talk to her because she's been the meanest iep director i've talked to, so i didn't think saying "thanks for nothing" would help!

doing that kind of public relation work would be expensive. i have to think about it though, especially with that one program that is not too far from here so i could drive, and the person is not too sure about it yet, but she has a huge program, probably the biggest in michigan, so it'd be sad to lose it! yeah, i think i'll go up there next thursday or friday and spend the weekend in ann arbor with my sis. oh wait no i can't, i need to feed someone's cat that weekend, dammit! ok maybe i'll go on wednesday then, and not go visit my sister. it's stupid, it's about 30 minutes away from ann arbor. anyway... i'll think about it.

i've been reading the handbook of attitude and writing stuff in my lit review. i like that, i get the general meaning and i hope it'll fit nicely in my chapter 2. other than that, i've kept reading enric's book, and also tried to reformat the two articles that were rejected to send them somewhere else. one article is 8000 word long and needs to be 5000 if i want to submit it to that other journal. the other one is the opposite, too short, so i need to work on it to make it longer. totally unfun. i also started working on the rationale for the article enric and i are going to write. it's super tough because i need to include 100 references at least, since it's a state of the art article and the rationale needs to show that i know what we're going to talk about! plus i need to prove that i'm the right person to write this article with my conference presentations, publications, work, education, etc. ... which is why i asked enric to co-write it with me because i really don't have that much to show off yet! so basically they've ASKED me to write the article but they still want to make sure that i can do it. weird. didn't know that's how it works. (oh, remind me to write about my meeting with the TQ editor at AILA, just one week after he rejected my article...).

ok, back to the measurement of attitudes! very interesting stuff!