slowly but surely..

Hey guys...I feel terrible about not blogging in awhile, I just have had really nothing to blog about! I sent my IRB back in on Thursday and still am waiting to hear back from them...I don't want to send out the e-mail informing students about my interview if the IRB denies me again. So still waiting...However, there are a couple of people that hear about what I was doing through friends of mine and said that they would love to do an interview...so..if all goes well with the RB hopefully I will be able to start very soon! However, I did want to let you guys know that the frame of my topic has shifter just slightly. After seeing what the IRB had written to me, I realized that I did approach my topic with a huge bias. I already knew what I was looking for, and an ethnographer should have no idea what to expect a the beginning f a study...so instead of focusing on the reasons why so many people are using these concentration stimulants and the subculture that I believe is growing out of this usage, I am just going to be asking prescribed patient's experience with the medicine in general. There will be no questions leading to the positive or negative effects of the medicine, the illegal use of the medicine, or anything like that. The board said that they feared there would be students that would leave my interview questioning their use of the medicine, so I had to cut any sensitive questions. Thus, I will only be inquiring about their experience in order to understand what role this medicine plays within their lives and nothing more. If they want to tell me more that that would be great, but I will not pry into deeper matters that may relate to their use of the medicine. I am excited to see to get an answer back from the board and finally get things started!