veeeeeeery impressed!

wouah, Language Teaching, from Cambridge University Press, has written me to ask if i'd be interested in writing a state-of-the-art, 20-page long article for them. every issue of language teaching offers 700 abstracts and a "specially commissioned, authoritative state-of-the-art article on a topic important to language learning and/or language teaching." and they've asked me! not sure i can do it, though, but it feels nice. i almost threw the message away as junk, this morning, because the title of the message looked odd, but i'm glad i didn't! the editor even said he'd seen my master's thesis and wanted something like that. and i think they pay for that article, from what i understood. makes me feel the same way i felt when i read the letter from TQ saying that my first article, unlike 93% of the articles they receive, hadn't been rejected!

i'm done with all i could write for chapter 3. i wrote about how i created the instruments, how i decided on the participants, how i found participating schools, the irb procedures, etc. and also about the first pilot. since i'm just barely starting the second pilot, i can't write more. i got my first chapter back from margie with very few comments on it... which i hope is a good thing. and i'm going to start working on my chapter 2 again, which should be easier after this little break. i need to concentrate on the holes in other people's research and how i'll do with my project what others have not done.

i hate weekends, because i can't call anyone and can't make things move. and this weekend is a long weekend because of the 4th of july, which is extremely frustrating! oh, and i've decided to find an editor and pay him/her to work on my dissertation. i feel it'll be worth it. if things work out, i'll be making history with my insanely complex project!