Week 5

Emily's dissertation is not finished yet.

Pages: Still 6 - but PLUS A NEW KICKASS TITLE I AM SUPER HAPPY ABOUT. I woke up with a start and emailed it to myself in the middle of the night mid-week. My data analysis classes, and some other excellent positive steps forward, are provoking a lot of good mental fizzing.

Pages goal: Who cares. I'm going to write this and what I end up with. It'll be as long as it needs to be, and as elegantly concise as I can muster. I totally got this. 

First full draft goal: January 18th. I'm feeling super confident about this right now, because my 2nd reader supports my plan to start writing up and not worry about collecting any more data. I still have to convince my advisor but I'm confident. 

Defense date: April 5th. I'm so, so ready to be done, but really genuinely feeling good about the process of getting there. But I'm also noticing that I am procrastinating the actual data analysis work a bit - no matter what my title or framework is, I do need to properly prepare and manage my actual data and that has... not so much been happening. Today, again, it was the one thing on my list that didn't get done, and I'd deliberately only given myself one interview to translate. I've been wittering on about doing it all myself bringing me closer to my data but maybe I do need to just pay someone else to crank through it all.