I'm glad March is here, but I'm grateful there's 31 days in all. I need them! My Pilot Study passed IRB, which means the university research review board said I could go ahead and do my study. I mailed out 57 letters, with return SASE's, to prospective participants. I've heard back from 20 so far. That was enough to pull five participants for the first interviews, to test my questions and procedures (aka "pilot study:).
The exicitng news is that I need to submit a draft of my Pilot Study report on Monday (Mar. 8) to my committee for their review and feedback. Why so soon? Because my Pilot Study defense is March 22nd!! Wow. Pretty cool. So, nose to the grindstone and all that. Do five interviews, transcribe them, analyze the transcriptions and the data from the demographic survey, and find my conclusions. Whoa!
The weather here has been really nice. In the 50's, clear skies. Arcy has decided she likes to go for walks again, after a couple weeks of being a house potato. She says the warmer weather suits her fine. The horses are beginning to shed a bit, and the grass is beginning to grow in their pasture. So they are pretty happy. Jetta went to the VW dealer and had some work done, and seems to be running purrrfect again. I can't wait to see how the mileage is for this first tank of diesel after the work. Hoping to get back up to 45 mpg! None of this 40 stuff! (I realize 40 mpg is nothing to shake a stick at, but when you've been used to 45, it's hard to swallow! lol).
My dad and my brother, Stuart, are coming up the end of March to visit, just in time to go to my Pilot Study defense. Very cool. Then I am headed to Humboldt for a week. On my agenda for the trip is to figure out where the horses are going to live, find a truck to buy, and maybe even find a place for me to live! I also want to help a friend with her garden, check in on my house, spend some time with friends, maybe do some horse stuff, and spend some time each morning working on my dissertation proposal. Then it's back to Boise to submit my dissertation proposal, defend my proposal, and collect the data. Pretty exciting to see how it is all coming together. I hope to move back home by June 15th. WooHoo. Just before the heat really bakes Boise to a crisp. lol.
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A blog chronicling my move to and subsequent adventures in Boise, Idaho. Mainly for my friends and family, so I can keep them up to date with photos and stories of grad school, living on 3 acres with my dogs and horses, and being on my own for the first time, ever.
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