It is a glorious fall day out there! I love this time of the year - so crisp, clear, sunny and just a hint of chilly. :-) Doesn't get much nicer than this. My daughter and I took a late afternoon walk through the Wissahickon section of Fairmount Park yesterday. It was lovely. We both love nature so much and Mimi got the added bonus of seeing lots of dogs. It was just such a pleasure to be away from my laptop, be moving and outside. Bliss!
Since the last post I have recruited a few more people, but the scheduling is still very slow going. I performed the survey and interview with two more people and so things are moving. Yay! It is a very exciting phase of the process. I just wish things would move a bit faster in the scheduling department. I am going to spend the next few days transcribing and coding. I think I might try to begin the coding process over again. See if I can recreate it with less chaos. It lacks coherence in a few areas and now that I have more data I can see some themes emerging that I don't know that I captured well in the earlier interviews. So for this week, beyond helping my online students I will work on developing the coding (and of course more recruitment/scheduling). Always lots of fun.
Ok, time to get motivated and out of the house. That fall weather is calling!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
A Quick Catch-Up
It has been another fast five weeks! I defended my dissertation proposal on the 28th of August. As luck would have it I ended up with a terrible cold, complete with a raging fever just in time to prepare my slides for the defense! How lucky is that? It ended up being ok in the end, since I was well enough to have a voice for the presentation but still sick enough that I had no energy to get worked up or worried. It seems Fate was somehow looking out for me.
I am now trying to schedule participants and recruit for the few last open slots. I am doing fairly well, but most people are super busy and that means waiting another month (or more) to meet with them. In the meantime I sort of bite my nails and try not to think about how crazy busy I am going to be over the next few months. I am teaching a course which is really demanding and it is being given online and so there are no boundaries. I am teacher 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not that this isn't the case with a face-to-face class, but the expectations of the students are definitely different! On top of all this I am volunteering a bit of time to two causes I feel strongly about: the school library and Brownie Girl Scouts. The first one is a given - I love books and kids need to enjoy being around them, too! I try to make things fun for the kiddolas when they check their books out. It is so important for lil' ones to be exposed to the library as much and as often as possible when they are young. I also want to help instill in a young girl the idea that she can succeed and lead, because heaven knows they aren't getting that message nearly often enough in most other areas of their lives! The GS do wonderful things to help girls achieve greatness and I want to help in whatever small way I can.
Ok, I suppose I should get back to work. I am transcribing an interview today, helping out at the library and hopefully getting back to the image indexing data. It never ends!
I am now trying to schedule participants and recruit for the few last open slots. I am doing fairly well, but most people are super busy and that means waiting another month (or more) to meet with them. In the meantime I sort of bite my nails and try not to think about how crazy busy I am going to be over the next few months. I am teaching a course which is really demanding and it is being given online and so there are no boundaries. I am teacher 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not that this isn't the case with a face-to-face class, but the expectations of the students are definitely different! On top of all this I am volunteering a bit of time to two causes I feel strongly about: the school library and Brownie Girl Scouts. The first one is a given - I love books and kids need to enjoy being around them, too! I try to make things fun for the kiddolas when they check their books out. It is so important for lil' ones to be exposed to the library as much and as often as possible when they are young. I also want to help instill in a young girl the idea that she can succeed and lead, because heaven knows they aren't getting that message nearly often enough in most other areas of their lives! The GS do wonderful things to help girls achieve greatness and I want to help in whatever small way I can.
Ok, I suppose I should get back to work. I am transcribing an interview today, helping out at the library and hopefully getting back to the image indexing data. It never ends!
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