moving along...

done with chapter 5! how is this possible??? i've had to divide my chapter 4 into four chapters because I had about 130 pages and that was too much for one chapter. so i divided it by research questions. question 1 is chapter 4, question 2 is chapter 5, question 3 is chapter 6, and questions 4 and 5 are in chapter 7. chapter 8 will be the conclusion of the whole dissertation. instead of just presenting the results, i'm now discussing them in each chapter so my chapter 8 will be smaller (it was going to be another monster).

so now chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are done. chapters 6 is on almost done (i need to discuss about the results a bit more), and chapter 7 is on its way, but veronica is helping me with it so i'll have to wait for her input to write some more. i've realized that if i want to defend on the 13th of june, i need to be done with the whole thing by early may. this leaves me with one month (and a half, if i stretch it) to finish the whole damn thing!!

i could change the defense date... but then i rejected a job offer from a school in quebec and the person i was corresponding with in that school told me that he still wanted to do research with me because he's very interested in what i'm doing! nice! so he wants to meet at AAAL in Montreal, which starts on the 17th of june... so if I defend my dissertation on the 13th i would be free to go to montreal afterwards, and maybe to other places in canada too...

i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it i can do it!

oh, and i also sent a file to a big university in florida today. i met the director of their TESOL program last week and he told me they urgently needed someone... not that i want to go to florida, but who knows...

back to work!

oh, i also wrote to two members of the tesol board of directors and asked them to please mention my name when the editorial board of the new tesol journal is established...

heilige kuh!