I know. What happened to February and March?
In any event, I now have about 65 pages to go. I'm not so worried about the three signatures. Those won't be such a problem. I gave one of those signatures a portion of what I have so far written. We're meeting tomorrow to go over them. As long as I can keep up with my five pages a day goal for the next couple weeks, then I should be fine. Now that I've started writing, I think it will go quickly. In fact, I think I may end up writing a lot more than I thought I would. There ends up being a lot of interesting things to say once I started. It's like a really big term paper, except I've been working on it for much longer.
I can't believe it's actually happening before my eyes. Maybe I should continue to not believe it until I'm walking into the defense, though. These are weeks of my life that I'd like to see in the rear view mirror, but it's better to actually experience them than not. Builds character and all that. And who knew? I really like the topic, though I'm beginning to think I'll never know enough. That's one of the things that I find frustrating: the more I find, the more I realize I still don't know and don't have (and in some cases can't have until the Germans come back from Easter holiday and decide to be nice to poor MA students in the Midwestern United States).
But, I keep trying to remind myself that I have a lot of good to say even without knowing it all or having it all. And somehow I think the collaborators about whom I'm writing would like the project, so I'm happy with what it's turning into.
And in spite of upcoming rain and thunderstorms, spring has finally arrived in my part of the world. I desperately needed it. Thank you little birds and geese and squirrels, and even all you little undergrad boys who feel the need to bring puppies to campus in the spring. The little animals do a lot to brighten my days. Another story for another day, but a couple weeks ago I stood under a campus tree watching a huge hawk who was perched on the branch above me eating his freshly-caught breakfast. It was rather fascinating. Beautiful bird. And then I was off to teach freshmen about Pseudo-Odo and Boethius, an equally fascinating experience, I assure you.
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As fascinating as your womanhood?
Congrats for you! I always found it odd that they use the term "defense." It's not very encouraging. Like they're out to get you from the beginning so you better be good. I am a bit disturbed by the way you equated the fascination of teaching freshman to a hawk eating it's breakfast. Hmmm . . . Totally agree with the Spring thing, though. Welcome, birds!
Fascinating womanhood. Ach. Totally banned in our house. David has too much fun reading it aloud. You've seen/heard what he can do with Barbara Cartland. Well.
More Blogging. Less Thesis writing.
Who knew that being without a shadow could be so fascinating. Surely not Peter Pan. Anyway we look forward to the finished product. Go Bucks! Love, Mutti
Mom, thank you for solving that question! Every time I searched for dissertations that had anything remotely to do with the woman without a shadow, there was one about Peter Pan as a mythological figure that kept coming up. As it really has nothing to do with my focus, I've been ignoring it but also wondering in the back of my mind what it had to do with Peter Pan. Hah! Never even occurred to me. well. shadows, shadows all around.
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