tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79295442009-03-02T19:07:05.216-05:00i DO have something to say! i WILL make a difference! "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." Marie Curie.luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1155226713959906352006-08-10T12:17:00.000-04:002007-11-24T22:35:15.368-05:00

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1153579867605265982006-07-22T10:25:00.000-04:002006-07-22T12:01:43.896-04:00

i am in canada. finally. it really happened. things are going relatively well even if it's going to take a while before i'm used to living here. everything is different and i miss my quiet little cornfield and my easy life. my appartment is a mess and i have thousands and thousands of dollars of credit card debts to repay for the next 10 years. but i'll be ok, i think. work hasn't started yet but

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1152831636499731742006-07-13T18:59:00.000-04:002006-07-13T19:00:36.513-04:00

got an upgraded credit card with DR written in front of my name. funny... got a phone number and internet connection for my new place, and my mail forwarded from here to there. got the international health certificates for the cats. still so much to do!!!!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1152712500493206512006-07-12T09:53:00.000-04:002006-07-12T09:55:00.506-04:00

i'm not doing anything productive regarding my book. nada. but i'm leaving the country in a week!!! for good! i can't believe it yet.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1152215002346865222006-07-06T15:36:00.000-04:002006-07-06T15:43:22.420-04:00

haha, got TESOL Quarterly's latest issue today and there's my book review in it :D ok it's only a book review, but now i can say that i've been published in TQ! in other news, i'm trying to write a first chapter/intro to my book to send it together with my proposal (which i haven't written yet) and it's very, very hard to make myself work. someone has written a paper that we'll use for this first

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1151850420634995622006-07-02T10:21:00.000-04:002006-07-03T18:44:03.123-04:00

i'm packing, packing, packing. not fun, and i'm bruised, scratched, and exhausted! i sent the book proposal to some people and got two three positive responses already. now they just need to translate into real chapters and quickly enough...i haven't been working on my article or anything else, i'm terrible... but really not motivated at this point. here are some pictures of a few friends. if

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1151335643442317612006-06-26T11:15:00.000-04:002006-07-09T15:37:08.210-04:00

working on the few revisions i needed to make to my dissertation, printing the final stuff, and today, i'll go have it binded. working also on the report i need to send to each of the participating school director, and on the article i want to send to TQ. and then i'm packing too, of course. i still need to:- send the paperwork about graduation + the work permit + new address to the lawyer- get a

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1150941051605350242006-06-21T21:28:00.000-04:002006-06-21T21:50:51.663-04:00

my other blog doesn't work :(anyway, i am not sure what i should do with this blog, because i like to have an almost "private" place where i can just complain or write short and meaningless stuff about my life, and i like that some people can read it because it's in english, unlike the other one. maybe i'll keep it alive for a while just to keep in touch with some dear friends. let me know what

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1150260120814159092006-06-13T23:33:00.000-04:002006-06-14T00:42:00.863-04:00

got the phd, got the canadian approval, might be able to get the full permit at the port of entry TOMORROW! this blog's name is finally appropriate (but its death might be imminent)! thanks to all of you, and in particular Xiaoye, Scott, Aca, Kiara, and Musarde for your support :)

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1149919665618137222006-06-10T01:58:00.000-04:002006-06-10T02:07:45.726-04:00

my visa request was never filed. we don't know (or won't tell) who made a mistakes somewhere. so it was (re)filed on thursday afternoon (again), with a "priority" label on it, except that the person who's supposed to take care of it is on vacation for a few days. so it's like "priority after i come back from my vacation." or maybe "the person who is on vacation for a few more days will take care

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1149685574415584242006-06-07T09:01:00.000-04:002006-06-07T09:06:14.426-04:00

i don't see how this work permit thing is going to work. even if i get the first approval now, i still need to wait 6 weeks at least for the second approval, which takes us right to the very end of july. and i just realized something absolutely horrible today: i might (must???) need to send my PASSPORT together with my application, which means that i won't be able to leave the US until i actually

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1149537344244484212006-06-05T15:47:00.000-04:002006-06-05T15:55:44.366-04:00

i'm working on some revisions and articles. the defense is in a week. today's the first time i feel some anxiety, a little bit of panic. not much, but it's here. i think it might be more because of the still-missing work permit than because of the dissertation defense, and also because i've started packing and i'm trying to find an apartment there already, and it scares me a little to be going to

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1148958503660480072006-05-29T23:02:00.000-04:002006-05-29T23:08:23.670-04:00

printed and binded 5 copies today: $122.91. and that's nothing compared to the final copies with special paper and special purdue binding. i'll be working on two tesol proposals due the 1st of june for the next couple of days, then on my TQ article and my book proposal (oh, i wrote to a journal a few weeks ago with an idea about an article and they wrote back saying that they'll be waiting for

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1148784294692269842006-05-27T22:43:00.000-04:002006-05-27T22:44:54.703-04:00

and still 2 chapters to revise.i am going to write a book, huhuh, sounds pretty funny. like "faculty member" sounds pretty funny too...

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1148578724058857902006-05-25T13:29:00.000-04:002006-05-25T13:38:44.186-04:00

the blogosphere is dead, france is on non-stop vacation in may and it's memorial day in the us next monday. very discouraging to feel so isolated again. i need to turn in my final draft all nice and binded on tuesday (can't do anything on monday because of memorial day, dammit)... and it's going to be a close call. i'm revising chapter 7 right now (the longest and most boring) and margie still

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1148094933482964092006-05-19T22:56:00.000-04:002006-05-19T23:15:33.586-04:00

- finish dissertation: may 30th- write and send 2 conference proposals for TESOL: may 31st- defend dissertation: june 13th- find an apartment: june 14th to 18th - finish an article for TQ: june 30th- move to new place: july 15th- find authors, write a proposal, write one chapter, and edit one chapter from another author for MY BOOK: july 31st- start new job: august 1st- graduate: august 5th-

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today i was in my kitchen cooking a really really bad meal (it was bound to happen some day!), and i suddenly felt the urge to just jump into my car and leave my cornfield and drive, drive, drive, until i'd find civilization again, normal people, good restaurants, culture, french tv, life. i am so sick of waiting i could cry. i look at my bookshelves and the huge mess all over my apartment and

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1147820206022754352006-05-16T18:44:00.000-04:002006-05-16T18:56:46.036-04:00

i've revised chapters 1-8, margie's finally approved chapters 5 (after a crash-course in statistics) and 6 (after i rewrote it all), i've changed the 20000000 tables in my appendix... ok, only 2000... and my sister's been reading and editing chapters 1-4. hopefully she'll survive the next 4. so basically all i do now is read and re-read and re-re-read to find mistakes, change a few words here and

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1147374599455520182006-05-11T15:07:00.000-04:002006-05-11T15:09:59.466-04:00

rewriting chapter 6 entirely. have worked 3 days non-stop to redo more than 2000 tables...

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and so busy that i can't write for now and for the next five years or so. if you haven't heard from be by christmas, you might want to call the cops... hope things are going well for you. and thanks for your support. right now, i don't need any support, i just need a gun.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1146950144769161892006-05-06T17:05:00.000-04:002006-05-06T17:15:44.870-04:00

i am trying to write a first article out of my dissertation so i cut and paste... and cut and cut and cut... and it makes me realize that my writing is soooo bad i can't even believe i wrote this poorly. ok, it was a first draft, but i'm going to have to work A LOT on the second draft of this dissertation! damned! i am not sure i'll be able to put all the information i got into a 25-page article,

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and dead.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1146589467336993062006-05-02T13:00:00.000-04:002006-05-02T13:05:36.096-04:00

the only thing i must now write is the conclusion of my concluding chapter. 8 chapters and almost 400 pages... i wrote my cv, the acknowledgement page, and the abstract... once this conclusion is written (and it should take me a day or two an hour or two), I WILL BE DONE! ok, then i have to do all the revisions, but hopefully that won't be too bad. ALMOST DONE!!!i wish the defense were tomorrow!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1146199213516768762006-04-28T00:22:00.000-04:002006-04-28T00:40:13.610-04:00

am finally writing my last chapter! i didn't know how to write and organize the thing so i just started with a summary of the findings. then, i read my chapter 2 (lit. review) and everytime i read something that corroborated or contradicted my findings, i mentionned it in my chapter 8. little by little, i plugged in some info about previous studies and how mine answered, contradicted, proved, or

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sorry i don't write much. i am so tired it's not even funny. i want to finish my dissertation by mai 13, that's the goal, and there's still a lot of work to be done. i think i'll have to divide my text into two volumes because i'll have approximately 400 pages in the end, with 150 pages of appendices. i work on chapter 8 and the appendices, these days. add stuff here and there, try to come up

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