Well, I won’t have to defend this summer (Yay!). I will, however, need to be ready to defend in the fall. And I’m terrified. Sure, I’m near 40 pages into this monster (that’s not counting outlines, notes, failed attempts to start, ect) but I still don’t feel ready. But I need to set a deadline for myself to have a full draft–and I’m going to do it. I’m going to make it happen come hell or high water.
I’m going to have a full draft–at least skeletoned with notes for sections I’m not quite done with–by 15 June.
There, I said it. I’m going to have a draft done by the 15th of June if it kills me. And it might.
Why June 15? Because that would mean I’d have a full draft of my Master’s thesis done before the 10 year mark–that is to say, 10 years after I graduated in the top third or so of my graduating class from Athens High School in Troy, MI. And then I’d be in the revision process and getting myself set to start taking my GREs to prepare for Ph.D work (oh god save me).
I have to defend in the fall. I have to defend in the fall and if I want to be ready for that defense…I need to finish this draft. And revise it. And be ready.
So I have to finish this draft. And that’s the deadline I’m going to set for myself. Because if I don’t set one…then it’s not going to get done.
I’m going to try to get my section on Edward I done within the next few weeks, one way or another. Early sections of the draft need touches, but are otherwise okay as they stand right now. Then I’ll get to move back to the Edward III section, which is the section Dr. Finucane had me focusing on when he died.
I don’t know. It’s just hard to think that he’ll never see the end of a project that I started under his tutelage.
Still need to decide if I’m going to the Medieval Institute conference. I have a couple weeks to decide yet. I’ll decide after Jen and I get back from Chicago next week.
