Had a very successful meeting with my advisor today, and finally, I feel like I know how to start this paper (which I like to call a thesis because that's what it feels like even though it's officially called MA plan B final paper, but who the hell knows what that means).
I love my advisor. Instead of letting me figure out how to approach researching and writing this paper on my own, she says, "Here are the questions I think you'll need to answer 1...2...3. Your sections will look like a...b...c. And you'll probably conclude with blah...blah...blah." That may seem like cheating to some, but she assures me that since I'm doing all of the work, it's really not. Plus, these are just ideas to get started and it'll all change along the way.
The best news was that she decided it was silly for me to try to write two papers as I had first planned. She knows me well enough to realize that I'll kill myself over one paper. And besides, dying twice is really impractical.
There's still one small problem. Now that I have this process figured out, I feel that I have license to spend the afternoon reading the new Harry Potter book in the rose garden instead of reading articles at a table as I had planned. No worries. I'm sure that I'll make the right decision after my nap.
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I really love to read that other people are not writing their papers. I've decided that summer is not a good season for writing. Sounds like you have a good advisor. Yay.
Well, this is what I'm doing instead of working .... your new favorite t-shirt:
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