why oh why?

so i found 5 new schools that could participate and tried to call their directors today. not sure why. especially since i can't seem to get my pilot started. (plus my phone's out of battery and my internet connection dies every two minutes!) anyway, i got one director on the phone, and we had an interesting discussion. she said that what bothers her in this kind of research is that the distinction between nonnative teachers IN THE US and nonnative teachers IN OTHER COUNTRIES is never made. i told her i did ask a few questions about that to the students, but i couldn't do it all in one project, and i believed the strength of my project was about the effects of time on students' attitudes. she said yes... but... but in the end she told me to send her the questionnaires and rationale and she'd look at it and let me know what she thinks. i'd love to call the other directors but MY PHONE IS DEAD!

i think i'll do that state-of-the-art article, even though Tony said it's not the most prestigious journal ever. i think it's probably more prestigious outside of linguistics, in other language teaching departments and not necessarily english. that would confirm why the editor told me he'd like me to compare native and nonnative LANGUAGE teachers and not ENGLISH teachers. i said i couldn't do that because that's not my area or research, so he said ok with english only. however, he wants both second and foreign language teachers, so i said i didn't know much about foreign language teachers. then i asked my friend in spain if he'd be interested in working on that article with me and he said yes. we'll get £250 (which I don't know what it is in dollars) for the article. and it's nice to have a commissioned article on my CV. so the proposal is due in september, the first draft in march, and the final draft in june. not sure if i'm making a big mistake or not...