I am seriously lacking motivation to do much of anything. I’m not sure why, but I think part of it is that I’m traveling more for school this term than I was before, and it’s messing up my internal rhythms. I have a seminar Tuesday afternoons and I’m doing research on Wednesdays, which puts me away from home right in the middle of every week. I feel like I’m always either gearing up to leave or settling in after being gone, and it’s throwing me off my game.<\/p>\n
I’m also struggling with the class I’m taking right now, Gender Theory. As I mentioned before, it’s in Swedish, and the subject matter is very unfamiliar to me. Luckily the professors are allowing me to write in English, and a good bit of the course literature is in English, but I have a difficult time expressing myself coherently and intelligently during the seminars. I keep wanting to tell everyone in the class that my Swedish is much better than my in-class contributions might lead them to believe. I’m just very far outside my comfort zone there, and I find myself easily tongue-tied.<\/p>\n
In other news, work on the thesis is going well enough. I still feel pretty good about my progress, and I have a few feelers out for more resources. We’re supposed to submit outlines at a seminar at the end of the month, and I think I should be able to do that without too much trouble. I’m a little apprehensive about the real writing part later on, but we’ve arranged for the little girls to go to preschool every day from 8.30 to 3:00 starting in January, so I should be able to get in a lot of hours of concentrated work time. Also, I won’t be traveling much at all after the early part of December, and that should make things a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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