{"id":5587,"date":"2016-05-03T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:33:23","slug":"diss-blues-in-a-cheerful-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/2016\/05\/diss-blues-in-a-cheerful-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Diss blues in a cheerful key!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woo! Just finished my first interview for my dissertation research &#8212; and it went swimmingly, I think! Feeling much relief here, as well as some amusement at myself for needlessly stressing so much. Hopefully my participant enjoyed herself as well! Now, a couple of notes for future interviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>zoom.us works <em>great<\/em>! Very clear directions, very easy to connect to for everyone, very simple controls, and it saves beautifully &#8212; in both video and audio format, which will make it <em>far<\/em> easier for me to do a text transcript. I&#8217;m sold! I&#8217;ll be sticking with zoom instead of skype from now on. Thanks, Sam, for the invaluable recommendation!<\/li>\n<li>Note to myself: before the interview starts, turn on a light in the room! I didn&#8217;t realize it was getting dark because I was so focused on my participant\u2026 so when I finally looked at my side of the screen again, I realized I was almost completely darked out &#8212; almost menacing looking! Totally <em>not<\/em> the perception I want to give\u2026 ;)<\/li>\n<li>I should let my participant&#8217;s words lead the discussion more, I think, rather than worrying so much about the questions. When my participant was most animated and, I think, most enjoying herself was when I let her just tell things in the way and the order she wanted.<\/li>\n<li>Sounds silly but of critical importance: <em>use the restroom before the interview starts<\/em>! Very embarrassing\u2026 ;-p<\/li>\n<li>Another note to myself: have fun! This doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t be serious or focused as well, of course, but I think when I was enjoying myself was when my participant was having the most fun as well. I&#8217;m so very grateful to both her and the lovely person who connected us! Though I can&#8217;t mention any names for the sake of confidentiality, you know who you are &#8212; and you&#8217;re amazingly good folks!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! The first of, I hope, many fascinating interviews with many wonderful women. To infinity&#8230; <em>and beyond<\/em>! :-D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo! Just finished my first interview for my dissertation research &#8212; and it went swimmingly, I think! Feeling much relief here, as well as some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,7,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertation-blues","category-education","category-family","category-ma-phd-programs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}