Dissertation Progress
Dissertation progress is slow. I have a solid prospectus and a solid start on chapter 1, but the actual writing is so much harder to keep up with than I'd anticipated. I had been developing a decent working routine, but then I got married and went on a honeymoon and had Thanksgiving and needed to read something for fun to keep from going nuts. So now I'm struggling to re-establish good writing habits and a sense of routine (and also facing a stack of papers to be graded for my writing class at the same time).
The good news is that I was awarded a dissertation fellowship for the spring semester that gives me a one-course teaching release. So instead of teaching one composition class and one literature class, I'll only be teaching the literature class, which should be fun. I waited for weeks and weeks to hear about the dissertation fellowship and was beginning to assume that it had been awarded to someone else and I just hadn't been notified, but I emailed the graduate advisor this morning to ask about it (nervously, worried that that might be some kind of breach of etiquette but unable to stand the not-knowing any more) and, apparently, the decision was made today.
Short version: writing is hard and fellowships are awesome.
The good news is that I was awarded a dissertation fellowship for the spring semester that gives me a one-course teaching release. So instead of teaching one composition class and one literature class, I'll only be teaching the literature class, which should be fun. I waited for weeks and weeks to hear about the dissertation fellowship and was beginning to assume that it had been awarded to someone else and I just hadn't been notified, but I emailed the graduate advisor this morning to ask about it (nervously, worried that that might be some kind of breach of etiquette but unable to stand the not-knowing any more) and, apparently, the decision was made today.
Short version: writing is hard and fellowships are awesome.