I have no motivation! I've gotten nothing done! I got an email from a Swede that might mean I did my case study all wrong (which, let's face it, is not surprising, and it doesn't upend my MA, but it is frustrating)! AAAAAAAAAA I had too much time with unknown people today... I did quite a good job and I am proud of myself but it is not reasonable ( Read more... )

Well no wonder I feel ausgelaugt-- I wrote 11 pages in the past 2 days! I'd done it single spaced so I didn't realize how long it was getting, but geez, it's long. It's not done (need to add citations and some numbers and stuff) and it's not great because I wrote it in a very piecemeal fashion, but it's a start. 11 pages in 2 days... yay me ( Read more... )

I've written up 2011 and 2010 for Sweden and dealt with why the institutional and sociological explanations don't work, so that's a start, at least. Now I just have to write up 2006-2009. I've got an outline for all that (more detailed than the one I posted a few days ago), so maybe I can finish most of it tonight. I promised M via email that I'd ( Read more... )

I have spent the entire day on the internet. Good grief. My eyes have stopped focusing. I either have to stick my head about 12 inches away from the screen or I can scrunch my nose up (for some reason that seems to work; I have no idea why). I'm going to have a wrinkly nose when I get old. I'm trying to imagine what that will look like... not ( Read more... )

Yesterday I learned that slutrapport is the Swedish word for final report. Swedish is silly ( Read more... )