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It is Thursday night. I have spent two pretty much full days staring at the shiny box, working on my thesis.
I finished polishing the methods section and wrote up the results. I figured out the two holes in the literature review (organizational justice and leader prototypicality). I have a to-do list: "write org. justice section / rewrite prototypicality section / incorporate new articles / draft discussion / draft conclusions / fix up citations"). I have made myself a table of contents and polished up the tables, figures, and appendices.
What I need to do is start reading and type. This synthesis is the hardest piece for me - I can do it, but struggle to aim myself in the right direction. What I need to remember is that the written (typed) word is powerful. If I just start putting words on the page - snippets from articles, sources to cite, bits of connection, soon I will have a draft. And once I have a draft, I can revise. Revising is fun and shiny, its just getting the words down in the first place that hurts. I need to remember Anne Lamott's advice and embrace my shitty first drafts and silence station KFKD (K-fucked) as it loops endlessly in my brain.
I really want to start messing with citations, since that means I am done. I am good at that kind of cross-referencing detail work, but it doesn't make sense to do that until all the words are on the page. So, I need to write. I want to knock at least the justice section and either the new articles or prototypicality off the list before I go to bed tonight.... That leaves me one hard piece and the discussion and conclusion sections for tomorrow (oh, and the citations, but citations are fun). It's manageable, if I do it. So, time to focus.
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Spending this time thinking about school has also brought to my attention that I still dont know what I am doing 20 hours a week next semester, for my assistantship. I am beginning to wonder if they pulled my funding and forgot to tell me. On one hand, that would be disastrous - I would have to come up with enough money to live on while I defended the thesis, swing into the job search, and move, all with very limited resources. But, I would also be free. And tonight, free sounds good.... (Fortunately my landlord is unlikely to throw me into the street and my visa has a high credit limit, so I can speculate without too much fear.....).
I finished polishing the methods section and wrote up the results. I figured out the two holes in the literature review (organizational justice and leader prototypicality). I have a to-do list: "write org. justice section / rewrite prototypicality section / incorporate new articles / draft discussion / draft conclusions / fix up citations"). I have made myself a table of contents and polished up the tables, figures, and appendices.
What I need to do is start reading and type. This synthesis is the hardest piece for me - I can do it, but struggle to aim myself in the right direction. What I need to remember is that the written (typed) word is powerful. If I just start putting words on the page - snippets from articles, sources to cite, bits of connection, soon I will have a draft. And once I have a draft, I can revise. Revising is fun and shiny, its just getting the words down in the first place that hurts. I need to remember Anne Lamott's advice and embrace my shitty first drafts and silence station KFKD (K-fucked) as it loops endlessly in my brain.
I really want to start messing with citations, since that means I am done. I am good at that kind of cross-referencing detail work, but it doesn't make sense to do that until all the words are on the page. So, I need to write. I want to knock at least the justice section and either the new articles or prototypicality off the list before I go to bed tonight.... That leaves me one hard piece and the discussion and conclusion sections for tomorrow (oh, and the citations, but citations are fun). It's manageable, if I do it. So, time to focus.
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Spending this time thinking about school has also brought to my attention that I still dont know what I am doing 20 hours a week next semester, for my assistantship. I am beginning to wonder if they pulled my funding and forgot to tell me. On one hand, that would be disastrous - I would have to come up with enough money to live on while I defended the thesis, swing into the job search, and move, all with very limited resources. But, I would also be free. And tonight, free sounds good.... (Fortunately my landlord is unlikely to throw me into the street and my visa has a high credit limit, so I can speculate without too much fear.....).