Did it! And doing it...

'It' being the chapter I was running late on that I blogged about in my previous post.

I also mentioned a significant accomplishment coming up earlier here. Well I've completed 4 chapters, have 3 more to edit and 1 to write from scratch. Of the "3 more" to edit, 2 of the 3 are in more decent shape. So really 1 is kind of going to be written from scratch more or less. Also, of these 3, there's one set of interviews that I've never really incorporated in my analysis in any systematic way so that means quite a bit of work.

So if I'm MIA you know where I am. Please send me good vibes so that I can finish these drafts by the date I have planned. [Nopes not divulging because whenever I do I think I tend to jinx it myself.]

A very dear friend and colleague who also posts his comments on this blog as "anonymous" wrote to me that once there are 3 chapters in the box you know it's getting done. From his mouth (technically, typeface) to God's ears as well as my fingers. [Thanks "anonymous".]

Okay gotta go put my dissertating shoes on and get to it!

Another chapter sent

Yay me! I submitted the aforementioned methodology chapter to my chair day before yesterday and I swear it feels pretty darn good. More so because that's the chapter that sets the stage for me to be me without continuously having to justify the rationale for the project - from this point on I get to do the project which is liberating.

As far as completion is concerned, I'm coming up on a significant milestone...although not THE milestone but a pretty good one. Stay tuned for details shortly.

Yay!

Last night I (finally!) finished a chapter that has been the bane of my existence since I started writing the dissertation actively and that I've continued to avoid for months every time I return to it. Always managing to almost finish a draft but never quite getting the last few pages done. That's how it continued to stand. And now, well, it's done.

Okay just perhaps not done done or I won't know until my committee reads it. But it is definitely the least horrendous version of this particular chapter - and actually has finished sentences and sub-sections!

I'd say yesterday was a good day - what with completing a chapter and one of my very old school friends having a baby (congrats Sam!)

Dare I say onwards? Well after playing a little hookey this afternoon (read: getting my Airport card fixed...this whole sans wireless access thing just isn't fun)