what flies when you’re having fun?

Of course, it's been flying past me whether or not I've been having fun, and whether or not I've been doing work on my thesis proposal. But finally after many weeks of disengagement and disease I sat down today to polish off my proposal. Eight hours later I feel a great sense of accomplishment AND am keen to move forward on this project once the powers-that-be approve my approach and issue me the elusive "ethical review certificate." I only had one section left to work on to actually finish, but of course once I re-read the entire thing, a whole new jumble of ideas came up and needed to be incorporated or abandoned – treated scientifically one way or another. One challenge I came across was remembering all the way back to last spring about the theories and practices and descriptions of methodologies: qualitative (QUAL) and quantitative (QUAN). Fortunately the power of the fabulous USB memory stick is having all my school assignments from the past 18 months right at hand to help sort that out. While I worked on the methodology I also came across some great information on aspects of my topic that will be useful in my upcoming Literature Review. Love that “bookmark” function for remembering where I was surfing about the internet.

Maybe now I’ll settle into a routine, with the holiday season and friends’ visits and most short-term travel over, the rain pours down, the five CDs play shuffled on the stereo, and the mug of something hot sits on the desk beside me. That’s probably a routine that I can continue for the next couple of months at least. And, if I can remember this light-headed feeling of even minimal accomplishment, maybe this can all be construed as FUN!? Note to self. If only those mental notes could be bookmarked.