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Mar. 3rd, 2005 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleinWell, now i am getting pretty jazzed about the conference next week. Did some preliminary work on the stats and come to find out there is a significant difference between my student's journal writing and their research writing. (Carry over from what is discussed in the journal to what is written in the paper.) Today i am going to look at other journal sites (if anyone knows of some would you drop me a line?) to get started on the workshop aspect. i have to go to the stationery store to get some cardstock for the handout packet. i just looked at the latest email, i am in a plenary room, and should expect at least 100 participants. i think i mentioned this proposal was ranked in the top 5% of all of the conference. i already have an idea for next year, that continues on this theme. M'aller!
i had a minor malfunction of the brain about a week ago and lost the websites i had for translation of emoticons. Another favor, if anyone knows of any could you please let me know? Part of the workshop will be discussing students' use of them in their writing. The transcripts of the interviews are fun to read. i have several themes for the paper picked out. This is getting to be funner and funner.
One sort of sour note in all of this. i went into ask the secretary to remind Jamal that i need an exit letter. She said Jamal had already started the process and that Eman called back and said if i am out of the country i don't get paid. Secretary said she thought the dean had approved the day out but she would check with Jamal to be sure. Jamal said yes the dean has approved. He tried to get Eman on the phone to explain the situation to her, but was not able. i'm going in on Saturday to continue this. i want to be certain i am not going to lose a day's pay. There will be nothing i can do about it if this does happen except to be really really REALLY angry with the university. But i'm going to hold off on that until i get my pay receipt. i charged my conference fees by fax and just checked, the fees have come through the bank. Everything is taken care of.
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and maybe Tuesday i will be working in the office with one of my colleagues checking over the statistical stuff. We were talking yesterday, and he said he really didn't want me near the numbers. Oh, il de petite foi. (i found a translation site that is kind of fun.)
Last night i was completely fagged out. These long weekends are killers. Was gone from 8 in the morning to 6 last night and then had to take Maxie out for his run. i let him sleep in the computer room last night cuz he had spent so much time in the kennel yesterday. Even then i felt guilty. i really should have let him sleep in the bedroom with me. But he is being his usual pesky self this morning so i guess he still loves me. Tomorrow is a desert day for him, if Master gets back tonight.
We are going to the theatah tomorrow afternoon. Going to take in a matinee. Something different this time, Bugsy Malone, the one with an all young people cast. i think last night was opening night so they should have the first time jitters taken care of. If i remember right, it is directed by a young person, too. i have an idea who is directing, i have watched him grow up in the Little Theater company. It should be a fun afternoon. Then Max to the desert, and maybe, just maybe, if i am good, we can have a picnic out there too. What a lovely day that would be.
i am procrastinating. i should go workout, but am not quite in the right frame of mind yet. On the other hand, i can't think of any other interesting things to put here for today. Oh, wait, there is a sparrow talking to Max. Oops, apparently Max didn't like what the bird had to say.
Emerson is just fine. What was concerning me two days ago ended up being what i had hoped, the new stuff just needed settling in. i felt so good yesterday afternoon that i had a fully functioning, non-leaking car and a terrific new radio/cd player that stuck in some Chicks, cranked down the windows, and cranked up the tunes. And sang at the top of my lungs all the way home. Who cares what the people in the cars next to me at the traffic lights thought? NOT ME.
i had a minor malfunction of the brain about a week ago and lost the websites i had for translation of emoticons. Another favor, if anyone knows of any could you please let me know? Part of the workshop will be discussing students' use of them in their writing. The transcripts of the interviews are fun to read. i have several themes for the paper picked out. This is getting to be funner and funner.
One sort of sour note in all of this. i went into ask the secretary to remind Jamal that i need an exit letter. She said Jamal had already started the process and that Eman called back and said if i am out of the country i don't get paid. Secretary said she thought the dean had approved the day out but she would check with Jamal to be sure. Jamal said yes the dean has approved. He tried to get Eman on the phone to explain the situation to her, but was not able. i'm going in on Saturday to continue this. i want to be certain i am not going to lose a day's pay. There will be nothing i can do about it if this does happen except to be really really REALLY angry with the university. But i'm going to hold off on that until i get my pay receipt. i charged my conference fees by fax and just checked, the fees have come through the bank. Everything is taken care of.
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and maybe Tuesday i will be working in the office with one of my colleagues checking over the statistical stuff. We were talking yesterday, and he said he really didn't want me near the numbers. Oh, il de petite foi. (i found a translation site that is kind of fun.)
Last night i was completely fagged out. These long weekends are killers. Was gone from 8 in the morning to 6 last night and then had to take Maxie out for his run. i let him sleep in the computer room last night cuz he had spent so much time in the kennel yesterday. Even then i felt guilty. i really should have let him sleep in the bedroom with me. But he is being his usual pesky self this morning so i guess he still loves me. Tomorrow is a desert day for him, if Master gets back tonight.
We are going to the theatah tomorrow afternoon. Going to take in a matinee. Something different this time, Bugsy Malone, the one with an all young people cast. i think last night was opening night so they should have the first time jitters taken care of. If i remember right, it is directed by a young person, too. i have an idea who is directing, i have watched him grow up in the Little Theater company. It should be a fun afternoon. Then Max to the desert, and maybe, just maybe, if i am good, we can have a picnic out there too. What a lovely day that would be.
i am procrastinating. i should go workout, but am not quite in the right frame of mind yet. On the other hand, i can't think of any other interesting things to put here for today. Oh, wait, there is a sparrow talking to Max. Oops, apparently Max didn't like what the bird had to say.
Emerson is just fine. What was concerning me two days ago ended up being what i had hoped, the new stuff just needed settling in. i felt so good yesterday afternoon that i had a fully functioning, non-leaking car and a terrific new radio/cd player that stuck in some Chicks, cranked down the windows, and cranked up the tunes. And sang at the top of my lungs all the way home. Who cares what the people in the cars next to me at the traffic lights thought? NOT ME.
