Back to the trenches
Feb. 1st, 2004 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennySo, as y'all have probably noticed, I haven't been talking about my dissertation much in the last three months.
This is because I have been capital-A Avoiding it, as one would avoid an ill-tempered dragon whose treasure is a fake-gilt and cardboard Easter egg.
However.
Mélusine is finished, out of my hands, and safely in New York. The second book (which at the moment is titled Kekropia, although that may change) is due May 1, 2005, so while I've got a deadline, it's not exactly a pressing one.
Nothing else I'm working on is, at the moment, for anyone but me.
I've told many people, including my director, my committee, my family, and my long-suffering and beloved spouse, that I would finish my dissertation this semester. Get the Ph.D. and move the fuck on.
It still sounds like a good plan, except for the tedious and terrifying part where I have to do the work.
This is how low I have sunk, Gentle Readers: I haven't even read my committee's comments.
This post is to keep myself honest. I've designated February as Get-The-Dis-Finished Month (and may possibly annex March as well), and if all y'all know that, too, it may actually spur me to *shudder* start work.
Or at least it will encourage me to feel guilty if I don't.
This is because I have been capital-A Avoiding it, as one would avoid an ill-tempered dragon whose treasure is a fake-gilt and cardboard Easter egg.
However.
Mélusine is finished, out of my hands, and safely in New York. The second book (which at the moment is titled Kekropia, although that may change) is due May 1, 2005, so while I've got a deadline, it's not exactly a pressing one.
Nothing else I'm working on is, at the moment, for anyone but me.
I've told many people, including my director, my committee, my family, and my long-suffering and beloved spouse, that I would finish my dissertation this semester. Get the Ph.D. and move the fuck on.
It still sounds like a good plan, except for the tedious and terrifying part where I have to do the work.
This is how low I have sunk, Gentle Readers: I haven't even read my committee's comments.
This post is to keep myself honest. I've designated February as Get-The-Dis-Finished Month (and may possibly annex March as well), and if all y'all know that, too, it may actually spur me to *shudder* start work.
Or at least it will encourage me to feel guilty if I don't.
