I’m back

It wasn’t the right time for blogging before, but now it is.  My friend, Kurk, is blogging along with his dissertation project.  As I was making a comment on one of his posts the other day, it occurred to me that I was inadvertantly hi-jacking the conversation he started and talking about my own research interests.  That’s not completely true, the topic overlapped both projects, especially since he invoked autism, which is the center of my project.

 Anyway, I turned in the first draft of my prospectus one week ago today.  My director will give me feedback, and hopefully I’ll do one more draft, give it to my committee, have a meeting with them, and be on my way, fully dissertating.  Over the last week, though, I’ve had to surrender my writing and await feedback.  It’s been completely disorienting.  I’ve held my cards so close to my chest as I’ve written my prospectus.  This project is so personal and important to me.  I’ve received feedback from my writing group, but that’s it.  It’s not that I’m nervous about it, but the stakes have slightly raised now.  In a funny way, I’ve missed writing this last week.  I haven’t written because I don’t know what kind of feedback I’ll get from the director.  But, as commenting on Kurk’s blog reminded me, I could rejuvenate this blog for some low stakes, idea-organizing, information-collecting writings.

That’s the plan.