Sunnies

Wow, today was a hot one. The sun was intense. Up over 100 degrees at one point. Even most of the Australians were complaining about the heat. James Stitz, one of my sponsors, said the weather is very rare for this time of year. Remember it's supposed to be fall over here. Global warming strikes again I guess. Better get Al Gore on that...or Steve, one or the other.

Spent the first part of the day doing more demographics targeting. Finished expected target numbers before noon. The region and gender demographics we should have no problem with but the age demographics might have been hard to reach with out knowlege of the subjects age before contact. I made sure to ask James about it later in the day. Spent the rest of the time before lunch preparing for our sponsor and adviser meeting. Also created a calendar to outline our when we planned to do each of the tasks that needed to be completed before we launched our survey.

For lunch, Max and I headed to that cafe we had lunch at the day before. I had some spinach and feta lasagne thing which was really good. After lunch we headed back to our office and printed out agendas and other papers for our meeting. Our meeting began at 1:30 and lasted about an hour. Again our advisers are completely useless however James helped to refine our instructor interview plan and our objectives for our methodology. We spent most of the time trying to explain our plan to our advisers who don't understand anything the first time they see it for some reason.

After the meeting we spent the rest of the day making revisions to our interview plan, typing up minutes from our meeting, and creating an actual script from our interview plan to use for tomorrow. We also got all the contact information for the instructors we would interview tomorrow. All in all it was a pretty productive day, however I am kinda worried that we hadn't made much progress on actually typing up our methodology, of which a draft is due on Monday. Hopefully the interviews won't take long tomorrow and we'll have a lot of time to work on it.

Well I'm on the tram now, on my way home. It's pretty miserable. It's packed and really hot. Hopefully it will cool down this evening. Anyways it's one of the girls birthday tonight, Nicky (the one I hate, she's a real b****), so we're prolly all going out to celebrate. I'll prolly go since we all are going, hopefully it'll be somewhere cool.