Waiting...

Dissertation update:

After a flurry of activity around here - (official, stamped IRB approval was recieved on Friday) I am now just waiting for the facility to let me know when I can come in and start my interviews. I am looking forward to getting those going. The reason for the wait is a good one, many of the inmates at the facility are participating in a Buddhist meditation retreat. I don't know many details, but I was excited for them to get this opportunity.

In the meantime, my list of to-do tasks looks like this:

1. Create dissertation outline

2. Pull together information for Chapter One ( this will be the introduction, the story of how I reached the point where I wanted to do this kind of research, and the potential benefit for social work).

3. Pull together information for Chapter Three (methodology chapter). This is pretty much already written in my dissertation proposal.

4. Send off application for a research support grant.

5. Make my final decisions on what kinds of equipment I need to buy for the project (digital recorder, and external microphone). I already bought an external hard drive, a Western Digital MyBook. I had hoped to recieve some research funds to get the kind of recorder and mic I wanted...but so far, it looks like I am on my own for those. My wish list is: the ShurePro mic and the MAudio recorder