A little over two weeks and I am going for a brief break in Manila. I still have not written anything – I am at the very least reading materials connected to my incipient first chapter but one cannot write a dissertation other than by writing. If it’s any indication of my mental state, I just had a dream involving two of my supervisors, and how they finally saw me as a fluke.
Four months into a supposedly “stress-free” semester with no teaching obligations, 0 words written. That must set some kind of record.
A friend of mine doing a similar degree program over at the “other” school advised that I should set (and by implication – follow it) a schedule of some sort. She personally writes from 530am-7pm with various breaks in between, and only during weekdays. She now has 250 pages written and is expecting to graduate by June of next year. And I started earlier than her. I’m such a doltz.
Anyhow, no sense crying over spilt milk. I decided to take her advice (well, as of last Friday), and have not been doing much this weekend related to the dissertation. But I finished all my readings for the History graduate seminar I attend for the first time. Bottomline is that the dissertation will not write itself. I should do that at some point.
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