Long Day!
Boy does it seem like it's been a loooooong day. I got up early to start working on this paper of mine. My final project for my language skills class is looking to see if there are differences in classroom participation between non-ESL and ESL (native English speakers and not) students as well as gender differences in classroom participation. See, my mom's got an interesting class because they got rid of ESL classrooms in her district this year, so for the first time these kids are integrated into the regular classroom. So basically I gave myself a ton of work by looking at that for my project rather than something we've actually studied in class, like display behaviors or persuasion practices or non-verbal behaviors. As it is, I just spent half the day finding previous research on my subject, whereas I could have used our classroom readings if I'd chosen something else. Ah well. I never can do things the easy way!
So today I went through and coded one entire tape. Go me! The second tape, though, had some weird exposure thing where the whole tape looks washed out. It's really hard to code participation when I can barely see the students. =/
But I really did get a lot accomplished. I found some background information I can pass off as justification for the project, got some journals to back up my research questions a bit, and I got almost four pages written. The paper is supposed to be between five and seven pages, and since I haven't even started writing up my results, I think I'll be well past five pages. Yippee!!
Then I went to Dos Reales for dinner with Meg, Aarti and Greg. I ate way too much. I had Taco Loco, which was a tasty taco salad. Since this weekend is Cinco de Mayo, it was festive. $2 margaritas, but I decided that since now I only have a $5 bill in my wallet, I'd refrain. <.g> And now I'm extraordinarily sleepy, a combination of too much good food and too much studying.
Still to do before... well, still to do:
*Finish reading No Logo for adv final on Tuesday
*Read journal articles for adv final on Tuesday
*Study stats and make up notes sheets for final on Wednesday
*Finish coding tapes and write up paper for Wednesday
*Make charts to add to end of paper for Wednesday
*Write up abstract for class presentation for Wednesday
*Skim book for cognitive exam on Thursday
*Go over notes for cognitive exam on Thursday
*PACK!
I can do it. Yes.