Ok, since this is my thread, I am going to vent in it.
I just spent two days at a training for no reason at all. As it turns out, I probably won't get assigned a site visit for a study because I am not allowed to go during the fall and winter (they need people to go once in fall, winter and spring), and because I came back late from the mid morning break for the only important secition of the whole two days. So, because I missed 2 minutes of video, I am disqualified from the study. I wish someone would have told me those were the perameters of the training. I wouldn't have gone to check my email if I knew it was that important.
oh well. It's better that I can't go because then I won't have to deal with my traveling interfering with my interviews.