tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79295442011-04-21T21:11:21.768-04:00i 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.comBlogger3381100tag: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-

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1148015000498068462006-05-19T00:51:00.000-04:002006-05-19T01:03:20.616-04:00

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...

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1147127737263820492006-05-08T18:34:00.000-04:002006-05-11T23:18:17.630-04:00

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,

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1146716705592075432006-05-04T00:24:00.000-04:002006-05-04T00:25:05.603-04:00

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

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1145992693262340662006-04-25T15:09:00.000-04:002006-04-25T18:05:40.100-04:00

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

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1145737052023633092006-04-22T16:16:00.000-04:002006-04-22T23:20:03.516-04:00

i hate my life sometimes...

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1145562407834358652006-04-20T15:37:00.000-04:002006-04-20T15:46:48.450-04:00

met with the "format" guy this morning. i am not sure whose hay fever was worse, huhuh... he said i was good with most of the stuff except that i had put 3 spaces after my titles but they were 1.5 spaces (which is what i use for my text) and they had to be single-line spaces. also, i thought the dissertation would be printed on both sides of the pages and had mirrored everything (margins, page

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1145457323881581342006-04-19T10:30:00.000-04:002006-04-19T12:10:43.510-04:00

for the first time i'm going to try and create a huge document with everything in it so i can print it. crazy. not sure how long it'll be. appendix G is done, thanks to veronica's help. and i did calculate that thing i had forgotten, it was too important, and calculated it on the wrong data set and wasted an entire day because of it :( took me 2 hours to calculate, then i entered the stuff for

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1145159324194755882006-04-15T23:35:00.000-04:002006-04-16T06:49:00.686-04:00

when i lose patience with my cats, it's a bad sign of stress. that's when i smoke the year's only cigarette and have to go outside even though it's 80 degrees fahrenheit to try and breathe again, for a minute at least. finished revising my chapter 7. now i just need to re-send my chapter 6 to margie, write 8, and revise 1 and 8 and i'll be done. i started writing chapter 8. it's very hard. plus i

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1144988923919202432006-04-14T00:20:00.000-04:002006-04-14T00:28:43.930-04:00

haven't given up yet but there's always hope...am done revising chapter 6, halfway done revising chapter 7, and have started chapter 8. well, the outline, at least. this last one is going to be the toughest. this morning i still had to go to campus and calculate some dumb p values that i had forgotten to calculate for my anovas... gggrrrr.... i'm going to make an appointment to meet with the "

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1144726783362444622006-04-10T23:33:00.000-04:002006-04-10T23:59:37.766-04:00

I HATE THE US POSTAL SERVICE! the more you pay, the more likely your letter is going to be lost and/or the more likely it's going to take six months to reach its destination! CANADA IS NOT UZBEKISTAN, DAMMIT! i swear, if i don't hear ONE good news soon, anything, i'm giving up!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1144525226844397822006-04-08T15:30:00.000-04:002006-04-08T17:51:40.796-04:00

done revising chapter 5. it was tough and i hated it. it went from 54 to 33 pages! muuuuch better! i still can't make myself start the last chapter. i say it's because i haven't gotten any feedback from margie on chapter 7 yet, but i think that it's just because i am stuck, sometimes. happened with revising my chapter 3, it took me forever to get back to it. it's ok, because i always have

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1144203450042740652006-04-04T22:11:00.000-04:002006-04-04T22:17:30.060-04:00

done revising chapters 2, 3, and 4. 4 was a nightmare. but 5 and 6 are going to be a living hell. i HATE chapter 5. with a passion! 6 is totally unfun too but not as bad as chapter 5. and i need to start my last chapter :( the excellent news is that veronica is going to help me with my appendix G! haha! is there an end to this nightmare? does it ever get better? does life have a purpose? does god

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1144041000183680902006-04-03T00:54:00.000-04:002006-04-03T01:10:00.246-04:00

i can't take it anymore! i have one month to finish everything!!! margie will return my chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, and maybe even 7 tomorrow and then i'll have a fun time making billions of revisions... and i have to write my final chapter. i am so sick of all this! today, i worked on my appendixes. appendices?? did you know that my appendix G is 49 pages long? Appendix D is about 20 pages, and F is

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1143780132324827952006-03-30T23:34:00.000-05:002006-03-31T00:49:05.703-05:00

chapter 7 finished. now i just need to write the final chapter and revise everything and byebye, i'm off to mexico. ... or something. got $250 from the engl dept for tesol. should get a couple of $$ from grad school too. i wonder if ikea has a website and if they allow wishlists. i need to keep myself motivated with something, right now...oh yeah, i forgot to say that a big university in florida

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1143561114535057432006-03-28T10:42:00.000-05:002006-03-28T10:51:54.633-05:00

haven't been able to sleep much lately. things are completely crazy here. the good thing is that chapter 7 is not as hard to write as i thought it would be. i'm almost done with it. i sent chapters 2, 4, 5, and 6 to margie. and now i'm worried about the final chapter. i realized that i have tons of results but no good overall view of the thing, no big picture, no idea how i could write an

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1143349962537141782006-03-26T00:02:00.000-05:002006-03-26T00:12:42.560-05:00

went to chicago for CCCC. presented with tony and a few other people, all went well. i like chicago very much. can't even get lost in that city even without maps. had a fun thai lunch with friends. went home and slept 3 hours straight. i'm glad the next conference i'm going to is in june, i'm tired of these things! i would like to go to IAWE in the fall, but it's in japan and i doubt i'll be able

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1143164939738250152006-03-24T01:46:00.000-05:002006-03-23T20:48:59.753-05:00

i hate chapter 7 and i am tired and overwhelmed and mad and scared and sad and broke.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1142960450928642602006-03-21T11:51:00.000-05:002006-03-21T12:00:51.010-05:00

got a summer research grant, yeah!! this means i don't have to teach this summer. very nice. done with chapter 6. ok, chapter 7 is going to be a little trickier but i should be done with it in a week or two. two. i'm meeting with margie today to give her the chapters i recently completed and to discuss ... err.... an important decision that i need to make very soon. i was worried that some of my

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1142823478149246592006-03-19T21:36:00.000-05:002006-03-19T22:05:21.456-05:00

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

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1142652594063302992006-03-17T22:17:00.000-05:002006-03-17T22:29:54.076-05:00

thank goodness, tesol is over! my presentations were ok, caucus is doing well, feet are killing me, i've been up at 5 every morning this week, have talked to several interesting people about work and stuff, the job interview went very well, have seen old friends and teachers, met new friends too, am glad i'm no longer the caucus chair, thought about working for the awards committee now, must

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1142025657544296042006-03-10T16:19:00.000-05:002006-03-10T16:20:57.556-05:00

june 13th, 2pm. you're all invited. i'll try to be there, too.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1141874387239676562006-03-09T01:00:00.000-05:002006-03-08T22:37:48.120-05:00

i think the nobel prize of cooking should be invented just for me. when i graduate, i'll close this blog (after i write an article on "how i survived graduate school") and open a cooking blog! when i'll retire, i'll marry a rich man who will open a restaurant for me in "le vieux." it'll be called keskon riz and we'll serve tons of vegetarian dishes (and others too), and all the dishes will

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1141693331987606482006-03-06T19:47:00.000-05:002006-03-07T12:16:18.176-05:00

when people ask me what i'm doing for spring break i tell them that i'm going to florida... and everyone's jealous... huhuh... but really, i don't think it's going to be much fun, except that i love to see old friends. on thursday evening, i have exactly three meetings at the same time! on thursday and friday mornings, i am starting one presentation and before the end of that presentation i have

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1141402720221505882006-03-03T11:14:00.000-05:002006-03-03T20:19:10.843-05:00

chapter 3 is 99.99% done! and in chapter 4, i got research questions 1, 2, and 3 done. got all the info i needed, printed the whole thing, and wrote tables and figures until the cows came home yesterday and the day before!! 106 pages so far... now i need to write a bit more in-between some of the graphs and tables, but overall, i only need to start working on questions 4 and 5 now, which are the

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1141271899741763832006-03-01T22:44:00.000-05:002006-03-02T00:38:45.096-05:00

ok so all the results of the analyzes for research question 3 had to be thrown in the trash! yep, t-tests and frequencies and ANOVAs and univariates... all in the trash! why? because we were sooo happy to finally be able to use the data set with SAS that we used the wrong one, the one that hadn't been double-checked against the set entered by veronica. haha! anyway, i tried to redo everything by

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1141160938386515302006-02-28T15:58:00.000-05:002006-02-28T16:15:13.730-05:00

finally got the darn thing to work! done calculating research questions 2 and 3. need to work on the writing, now... should take a few weeks! questions 4 and 5 won't be calculated for a while because i don't know how i should do it. i'll think about that when i'm done with 2 and 3. i'm also done filling out all the tables in my chapter 4 that relate to my question 2: number, mean, and standard

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1140649373085497822006-02-22T17:52:00.000-05:002006-02-22T18:02:53.140-05:00

on the questionnaires i received for my study, the most common thing students wrote when asked in what class they were, was "writting." writting... you'd think that the first thing they learn to write when they are in the writing class is to learn how to spell writing... i'd say that i saw that mistake on about 90% of the questionnaires coming from writing classes. anyway, i'm writting a lot

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1140281579634908582006-02-18T11:46:00.000-05:002006-02-18T12:20:37.590-05:00

in case i don't get a job this year, just in case, and because it's not so dramatic and because after all i might enjoy a relaxed final year at purdue and could use some extra time to prepare myself for a job, i've applied for a mentoring position (engl. 505) for next year, and i've also been asked (and accepted) to teach english 002 again. so there. no panic. i'm slowly getting used to this idea

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1140135731746164072006-02-16T19:06:00.000-05:002006-03-09T20:15:11.953-05:00

working on my third chapter again. it's going well. i'm rewriting some stuff, working on tables and graphs, cutting out a lot of junk... it's getting good. other than that, i'm pretty frustrated about the new data. i can't seem to get our two entries compared so we can fix mistakes and get the analysis going. at the same time, i have all the stuff i need to answer question 2 (question 1 has been

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1139714898055137122006-02-11T21:25:00.000-05:002006-03-09T20:14:31.446-05:00

wow, i need to write some things down before i forget them, but i feel stoned, exhausted, drained! got stuck in detroit almost 5 hours before the plane was de-iced and allowed to leave... and i was sooooo air sick!! first. i met some incredibly nice, fun, kind, interesting, talented, and wonderful people. except for the first five nervous minutes of the first meeting in the morning, i never felt

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1139101619961993472006-02-04T19:48:00.000-05:002006-02-05T10:46:54.676-05:00

do you know what phd means? permanant head damage! yep, says it all ;)ok so i went to new york for a job interview and it was ok. flying in and out on the same day was not such a great idea, especially considering that i had spent half of the previous night at the emergency animal hospital and that i was leaving a half-dead cat alone for 22 hours. other than that, the interview with the search

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1138418126880762662006-01-27T22:02:00.000-05:002006-01-27T22:15:26.896-05:00

no, not done writing the thesis...but done entering the data from the final questionnaire!! 801 initial questionnaires and 635 final questionnaires. not bad at all, i'm quite proud of it! i'm glad to be done entering the stuff because it's just not a whole lot of fun. i also cleaned the data, replaced rarely used languages and countries with "other" and calculated students' ages (thank you excel

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1138064163920302152006-01-23T19:55:00.000-05:002006-01-23T21:15:55.706-05:00

got a campus visit in canada with a school i'd LOVE to work for! feb. 10!! very very very exciting!!!now i need to figure out what i'll do with my american visa, which is expiring in march... might create some serious problems! ok ok people, what do i NEED to know for campus visits???? what mistake should i not make during a teaching demo? a research presentation? a meeting with the dean? a

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1137541385832696732006-01-17T18:37:00.000-05:002006-01-17T18:43:05.846-05:00

You're in the zone and can grasp legions of data that would ordinarily stymie a platoon of analysts. It's the perfect time to plan out your next several moves -- either on your current project or in terms of your career. i am NOT making this up, hahah! i'm done matching all the questionnaires i got... and i'm still waiting for one school... not done entering the data though... oh, and this

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1137465397747622062006-01-16T21:29:00.000-05:002006-01-16T21:36:37.760-05:00

i'm still entering data, right now... it never ends! and i'm still waiting from stuff from one school, i'm so mad! anyway, i must already have about 600 final questionnaires, which is good! so i'm entering, and entering, and entering... some schools didn't make the copies correctly and are missing pages or questions or stuff... the arabic questionnaires are a complete pain, as usual, and one

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1137167386166129942006-01-13T10:45:00.000-05:002006-01-13T10:49:46.180-05:00

got my big article FINALLY ACCEPTED!!! no, i won't tell you how many times i've tried before it got accepted. as the saying goes: the more you fail, the better your chances are to succeed soon. happy b'day to me :)and thanks to everyone for your wishes!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1137035075953678882006-01-11T21:59:00.000-05:002006-01-12T12:28:27.820-05:00

it had to happen: i'm stuck. i don't want to write, i don't want to enter data, i don't want to talk statistiques, i just don't want to do anything. and i mean, i really don't. i did match initial with final questionnaires on tuesday, though, for three hours, with veronica, but i can't make myself actually enter the data that we matched... let's just hope that this is not going to last. ... ok,

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1136404588857358412006-01-04T14:37:00.000-05:002006-01-07T00:51:10.036-05:00

i'm not so good at being interviewed. afterwards, i spend entire nights thinking about all the things i should have said and didn't, and all the things i shouldn't have said and did. i don't know how to sell myself. the interview at mla went well, i would LOVE that job and the people were very nice... i don't think i did BAD but i think i could have done much better. if i'm not invited for a

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1135397514849665872005-12-23T22:52:00.000-05:002006-01-03T00:42:30.013-05:00

i am BY FAR the smartest chick on the block! i thought i had calculated almost everything i needed for my first research questions. got about 800 pages of statistical results. printed. binded as book 1 and book 2. annotated. and all was going well in cornland until i started to write chapter 4, and realized one thing after another:- (book 1) i did most of the calculations by school. impossible to

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1135273881674250802005-12-22T12:46:00.000-05:002005-12-22T12:52:09.786-05:00

yeah... i should enter those hundreds of questionnaires... i do, about 30 per day... but it's not enough. plus i should really work on my chapter 4. FOUR! ha! halfway there :) and i hope someone else will call me for mla... i don't have all the data for my chapter 4, far from it. i problably have 1/5 of what i need, but it's a start, and i could write about 15 pages about it i'm sure. i could.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1135053758904916842005-12-19T23:34:00.000-05:002005-12-19T23:42:38.916-05:00

10 schools, more than 500 questionnaires, another interview scheduled, 5 new movies rented, $50 paid to the vet today, 96 teachers, 0 papers to grade, chapter 3 done and submitted. going to mla in a week. i miss veronica, thank goodness she's helping me next semester too.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1134619214830272362005-12-14T22:56:00.000-05:002005-12-14T23:07:31.636-05:00

10 days before christmas 7 schools 440 questionnaires 33 really soon 2 really good books to read 1 interview at MLA 8 inches less of hair 3 papers left to grade 11 days of vacation 5 dvds rented 57 pages written for chapter 31 happy chick

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1134362344821289352005-12-11T23:29:00.000-05:002005-12-12T19:00:13.803-05:00

don't think for a minute that because classes have finally ended, i'm on "vacation!" in fact, i work a lot better when i don't have to get out of my house or get dressed or look decent... hehe... so i've been working 9 hours yesterday and 9 hours today on my dissertation and entering data from schools and calculating cohen's kappas and doing fun things like that! i love to work this way, it feels

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1133995274307434632005-12-07T17:34:00.000-05:002005-12-07T17:41:14.330-05:00

done recalculating all the students and teachers' comments. it took us so much time it's incredible. and to think that we have to start all over again with the new student comments, it's discouraging. we're also matching the new questionnaires that i receive every day. i have stuff from 4 schools already, about 300 questionnaires. i think we can make it to 400. interestingly, in two of the

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1133660635752684372005-12-03T20:11:00.000-05:002005-12-03T20:43:55.786-05:00

we spent three hours on the stats on friday and two today, recalculating all the teachers' comments differently, and it was a complete nightmare! we calculated the thing about five times and every times, we were off by one or two points! it's very hard to keep track of the number of comments we both have right, those i have right but veronica has wrong, those veronica has right and i have wrong,

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1133412045982922412005-12-01T23:31:00.000-05:002005-12-01T00:15:46.663-05:00

Could you describe a particular strength related to your teaching? Could you describe a particular weakness related to your teaching, and how you're working to improve it?Could you tell us about any innovative assignments or activities you've used in the classroom?Which linguists have most influenced your teaching, and can you describe how?Would you use case-based or project-based approaches in

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1133399926739679762005-11-30T19:56:00.000-05:002005-11-30T20:18:46.806-05:00

one school sent me 103 initial questionnaires and i just got 95 final questionnaires from them today. now, this is THE school that was the most careful with asking students to answer ALL the questions, especially the personal stuff like birth date, birth place, etc., and it still took me almost FOUR HOURS to match those initial and final questionnaires! i did it by language, and then by country (

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1133326100341781672005-11-29T23:03:00.000-05:002005-11-30T02:02:32.280-05:00

printed and binded book 2 today, an extra 400 pages of stats. it's amazing that i can go through it and actually understand most of it, and know where things are, where to find what, and go back and forth between my two books and find exactly the information i am looking for in a second. i love that i can take note on the paper, put marks here and there, and underline, circle, scribble, think on

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1132722827239722922005-11-23T00:06:00.000-05:002005-11-23T00:42:05.430-05:00

- when you're doing some statistical analyses with the data you've collected, make sure to ask your statistical consultant for help on how to analyze and interpret the results! otherwise you find yourself with 1,400 pages of numbers and it makes no sense and it's a mess! - when you have student papers to grade, don't procrastinate too much, because then you have five hundred thousand things to

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1132638521616269732005-11-22T00:15:00.000-05:002005-11-22T02:54:51.456-05:00

worked on chapter 3 all day yesterday. it was a mess, because i had kept the outline format that i always start with, and it needed to be formated to a readable, normal text. i added a few numbers, tables, and graphs... found out how many native and nonnative speakers responded to my teacher survey, and... hope that i'll have more! i have 90 responses from teachers. i'd be happy with 100 :) about

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1132434370027907232005-11-19T15:29:00.000-05:002005-11-20T14:04:02.216-05:00

hehe, it's funny to think that i'm starting chapter 4. out of 5. crazy. ok, i need to finish chapter 3, but i can't really do that because i need to describe the participants and i don't know who the participants to the second part of my study will be. so... i can only do so much on chapter 3. i've created nice (and long!!) tables and graphs, and only have to work on the last sections:

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1132114802657278232005-11-15T23:08:00.000-05:002005-11-20T14:04:35.646-05:00

got all the ANOVAs done, but i don't know where to start looking for things to discuss in the 700+ pages of results i got... i haven't been able to start working on the 600+ pages of stuff i previously got (basic statistics) because it's so much it's overwhelming and i don't know where to start, what to do, where to go, what to keep, and what to not use. now with the ANOVAs, it's even worse. got

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131947862704773832005-11-14T00:51:00.000-05:002005-11-14T00:57:42.716-05:00

had my first job interview today. excellente learning experience :) and i know now how i react to this kind of stress: well. good. for more details, go somewhere else... if you speak french. oh, i sent the final questionnaires/letters/stamps (only $185 this time!)/envelopes/labels/directions to 15 schools on friday. forgot to send an email to the school directors to tell them about it, though. i

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131719869904734812005-11-11T09:35:00.000-05:002005-11-11T09:37:49.920-05:00

sometimes, i just have to stop doing stuff. i'm taking a few days off. i need to gather some sleep and energy to survive until the end of the semester! 3.5 more weeks to go!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131418627618812862005-11-07T21:40:00.000-05:002005-11-20T14:07:29.466-05:00

stop with the food!!!! i must have gained 10 lbs in 2 days already!! this is serious business, nothing like "teacher conferences." breakfast, one session, coffee break, one session, snacks, one session, lunch, one session, snacks, one session, coffee break, one session, reception, dinner, dessert buffet at the derby race tracks, cocktails, ... no time to think, but a lot of great times talking

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131333902126173972005-11-06T22:18:00.000-05:002005-11-06T22:25:02.126-05:00

nafsa is fun so far. i'm meeting lots of people from different backgrounds and places. one thing i can say, so far, is that it's a serious conference, very different from tesol. and they FEED us all the time: welcome reception (tons of free food), "make friends" dinner, first timer breakfast, plenary luncheon, no-host dinner, etc. etc.! and they never give us a free minute. i got here at 2:30 pm

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131151291272073372005-11-04T19:39:00.000-05:002005-11-04T20:31:00.436-05:00

i am so damn lazy sometimes!!! got all the stats i could get from the data. myself. hehe, i can use SAS... a little. 694 pages of results. enough for a good 3rd chapter and the begining of the 4th one. now i just have to write things down. but lately i haven't even been able to grade 25 papers, i'm feeling completely incapable of doing anything at all.ps. do you guys see the menu to the right? if

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1131035870462897142005-11-03T11:15:00.000-05:002005-11-03T11:37:50.533-05:00

i have 19 stamps left from last time, and i need only 77, this time, and i still have enough envelopes. i need to write 15 letters and new directions for the distribution of the questionnaires. plus i'll re-send a copy of each questionnaire to everyone. we'll try to get all this done on friday, hopefully. i'm trying to sort out through the massive amounts of data that i've got. there are tons of

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130892445887557042005-11-01T19:44:00.000-05:002005-11-01T19:47:25.903-05:00

so i'm going to apply to no more than 9 more jobs: 4 next weekend and maybe 4/5 more if anything comes up later. that's the goal. i feel like staying more and more every day. and i want a good dissertation. period.

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130705765534439412005-10-30T15:52:00.000-05:002005-10-31T09:33:31.456-05:00

article re-sent. nothing too hard, except that the format was completely different (references, etc.) so i had to rewrite practically every single reference, footnote, citation, etc. + i had to send an electronic copy PLUS two hard copies... keep your fingers crossed for that one!!! when i calculated by hand (head?) the number of student comments, i got 1851. veronica got 1850. and excel got 1849

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130616969532983162005-10-29T16:05:00.000-04:002005-12-01T00:24:21.680-05:00

i'm starting to get stuff from the schools i applied to. it's kind of annoying, really. it's the paperwork about equal opportunity stuff that asks me if i'm a male or female, veterant, white, yellow, black, blue, or pink, and some ask for my age, address, SS#, and tons of other stuff. sometimes, self-addressed return envelopes are included so it's not too bad, sometimes it's a little card,

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130551391000559152005-10-28T21:51:00.000-04:002005-10-29T13:03:33.210-04:00

done coding the open-ended question! started calculating how many times i was right with my codes, and then veronica will do the same and we'll compare our results (average) for the inter-rater reliability. for me, i got the right answer 92% of the time. veronica might be a little lower, but it's not even sure, so the inter-rater reliability will be very high, which is great! for the teachers'

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130477014412773372005-10-28T01:21:00.000-04:002005-10-28T01:23:34.423-04:00

done done done entering the questionnaires!! yeah, done with all the translations, the verifications, and all!! i just need to finish coding the open-ended stuff, and then do the big statistical analysis, and then... i can start again with the second batch! tomorrow, 5 more hours of coding at panera with veronica... and stats on tuesday. fun fun. i'm going to bed, g'night!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130348026377346762005-10-26T13:24:00.000-04:002005-10-26T14:05:08.353-04:00

my article was rejected. not sure what to do with it now... i can't complain too much though, since i said i'd be ok if i didn't get the grant but got the article. i didn't get the article but i got the grant. oh well. done translating thai and arabic. only about 30 chinese questionnaires left to go. not sure why, but i've felt quite tired suddenly in the last few days. tired as in "yuck, let's

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130287166942500352005-10-25T20:28:00.000-04:002005-10-25T20:39:26.953-04:00

i have sooooooo many things to write about, now that i've started analyzing my data, that i don't think i'll be able to EVER sleep again until i depend the darn thing! i mean, the simplest table is 5 pages long... just to write where the students who answered the questionnaires came from, in every school... then the ages, gender, intent to return to home country, classes they take, reasons for

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130218535608956862005-10-25T01:32:00.000-04:002005-10-25T01:35:35.633-04:00

3 hours of work on codes this morning. we're far from done, i'd say maybe 1/3 done... but so far, we have 83% on the inter-rater reliability. that's very good. i wrote about our coding and counting system in my chapter 3 tonight. tomorrow, we'll meet with the statistician to get all the demographic info and start the ANOVAs. this is my last "free" evening in a loooooooonnnnnnng time!!!!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1130114186425183182005-10-23T20:35:00.000-04:002005-10-23T21:33:16.163-04:00

i am so sick of grading papers!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129938636891154352005-10-21T19:47:00.000-04:002005-10-21T23:18:40.460-04:00

ok, we're not doing well with the coding. it's taking way too long, i'd say we're about 1/5 done... and it's a real nightmare. we'll spend another 5 hours on it on monday... and i'm going to do this all weekend, + 5-10 job files, + paper grading. exciting weekend. conference went very well. we were invited, they paid the yearly membership and the conference registration for us, AND we got a small

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129766819181644072005-10-19T19:45:00.000-04:002005-10-19T20:06:59.243-04:00

good news, i found 3 japanese speakers who agreed to help me, so i've just done 50-60 questionnaires with one person, i'll do another 60-70 tomorrow with the second person, and i'll do the rest with the third person next week. and since i'm done with the korean questionnaires (thanks sue!!!), this means that we'll only need to go over a few arabic, thai, portuguese, and chinese questionnaires (

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129593287564722502005-10-17T19:49:00.000-04:002005-10-17T19:54:47.586-04:00

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luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129477369288871192005-10-16T11:36:00.000-04:002005-10-17T01:25:28.500-04:00

with entering the 804 questionnaires, that is. funny how i was able to enter so many of them without any problem and then, the last 20 were just a pain, i hated every single one of them, especially if they hadn't responded to every question or if they had a native english-speaking teacher... which they practically all did... i prayed so the LAST one would be entirely filled and from someone who

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129313324848571892005-10-14T13:52:00.000-04:002005-10-17T01:15:49.076-04:00

so we go over our codes and see if we agree on them. you got 1, 4, 8, 23? i got 1, 4, 9. Oops... who's right? we argue, agree, make a choice (out of 3 or 4), and write our scores. at the end, we'll average our scores and that'll be our interrater reliability score. and it is a PAIN! but we're doing pretty good i'd say. we have monster strings of codes, like 19, 14, 12, 12, 10, 4, 2, 1, 29, 30, 1,

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129180436973801052005-10-13T01:05:00.000-04:002005-10-13T01:23:34.076-04:00

i have decided that i won't try to find a job too hard. i don't really want to graduate, my project is too big, and i want to do it well, not in a hurry. it's an important and very unique project that will be talked about in the future and used as a reference, so it has to be good. to me, this is more important than getting out of here quickly. so i'll keep looking for jobs, but not actively or

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129137317693378642005-10-12T13:07:00.000-04:002005-10-12T13:15:17.700-04:00

this suspens is really hard on me... they say they'll announce the "winners" of those tirf grants by the 15th of october... come on... i know i have no chance of getting it, but waiting like that is killing me! i feel like half of my brain is missing, today, and i don't recognize my own voice and am slightly shaking, but i still must go to work, plus we have a jobsearch meeting today... long day!

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1129083681385267022005-10-11T22:08:00.000-04:002005-10-13T15:36:09.863-04:00

i spent 4 hours on saturday, 5 hours on sunday, 2 hours on monday, and 2 hours today working on those codes. it's insane. i went from 15 categories to 31, and now back to 13 (i think), but not the same ones... and every time i have to change everything i've coded so far. it's crazy! thank goodness bequi was very helpful, not only with the categories and codes but also with the stats part, because

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1128662568754326192005-10-07T01:17:00.000-04:002005-10-07T01:22:48.760-04:00

i'm glad i didn't send those 4 applications yesterday. i got the NAFSA travel grant today :) that's GOOD because it shows that i'm not just interested in TESOL but also in the more administrative side of international education. wish i hadn't sent those 10 other applications already... and i'll keep waiting for the other grant, the articles, etc... i found the biggest problem with the other grant

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1128579773216330712005-10-06T02:07:00.000-04:002005-10-06T02:22:53.273-04:00

have decided not to send job application files anymore, except if the deadline is close, but i prepare them, send letters of recommendation if needed... and wait for my cv to fill out... or not... i should get some answers soon, hopefully! changed about 400 dates from 2/3/87 to 2/3/1987, erased those without years, printed and started working on coding students' open-ended responses, decided how

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1128471505602109972005-10-04T19:31:00.000-04:002005-10-04T20:43:48.476-04:00

met with the stats consultant today. good. we went over every question and how i'd been entering the answers and how we could code the answers if necessary, for the analysis. the only big problems were with the birth dates. considering that 0.5% of the dates are written according to the arabic calendar, it's kind of hard to write a formula that would automatically calculate the participants' ages

luciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336804025677756358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929544.post-1128349993481227892005-10-03T10:30:00.000-04:002005-10-03T18:58:51.346-04:00

100 other responses2 articles2 grants1 TAship for 0021 job1 doctorate... i really hate waiting...ps. good news: i will keep my little helper next semester! very cool!pps. so i come home this afternoon and find an email in my mailbox from someone who's been ... not very cooperative... but to whom i sent a fedEx ($28) with about $80 worth of materials (stamps, envelopes, labels, copies). she says

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