fearless leaders,
This is your fall update on my progress! I'm dismayed to report that it's much slower than I'd planned. I swear you don't have to lecture me: I do understand the importance of protecting time for my dissertation, it's just a learning process to actually put that in practice. about 50% of my distractions are of direct professional usefulness, at least. And one heartening trend is that I get miserable when I'm not moving forward at least a little, so that's an excellent motivator. I am writing, and I'm very aware that I need to figure out how to write faster.
I'm working on my Battlestar Galactica/media archaeology chapter, which has three body sections: the theoretical scaffolding, analysis of the show's text and context (much of this repurposed from earlier talks), and new discussion of fan videos (plus a short intro and conclusion which I'll write last). I have one more bit to go on the latter, which will be finished by the 15th. [links] After wrapping us this third I'm jumping back to the theory section (even though the TV section is easier/faster), because I realized that it's difficult sorting out how to frame my discussion without having hashed that out. I'm meeting with [whkc] soon so that should be an invaluable kickstart!
[redacted: Jenkins post, plans for publication, conferences]
Finally, as I understand it, it would behoove me to apply for some external fellowships for next year (some of which may have november deadlines). Last I heard the funding situation was optimistic but still uncertain, with precedence definitely given to 6th year students with some outside money. Other than the UCLA film/TV archive research stipend, which I'll probably apply for despite the difficulty of making the case that I need to do archival research, I have no idea how to go about this. I was going to start with these links: http://del.icio.us/tag/fellowships. Help?
Plus [LJ] and I are organizing a Flow special issue. See how this month is crazy?? I will try to a more vigilant dissertator in future. Schedule-wise, I'm planning to be in LA November 9-December 14, then back on the east coast for the holiday season.
many thanks,
julie
This is your fall update on my progress! I'm dismayed to report that it's much slower than I'd planned. I swear you don't have to lecture me: I do understand the importance of protecting time for my dissertation, it's just a learning process to actually put that in practice. about 50% of my distractions are of direct professional usefulness, at least. And one heartening trend is that I get miserable when I'm not moving forward at least a little, so that's an excellent motivator. I am writing, and I'm very aware that I need to figure out how to write faster.
I'm working on my Battlestar Galactica/media archaeology chapter, which has three body sections: the theoretical scaffolding, analysis of the show's text and context (much of this repurposed from earlier talks), and new discussion of fan videos (plus a short intro and conclusion which I'll write last). I have one more bit to go on the latter, which will be finished by the 15th. [links] After wrapping us this third I'm jumping back to the theory section (even though the TV section is easier/faster), because I realized that it's difficult sorting out how to frame my discussion without having hashed that out. I'm meeting with [whkc] soon so that should be an invaluable kickstart!
[redacted: Jenkins post, plans for publication, conferences]
Finally, as I understand it, it would behoove me to apply for some external fellowships for next year (some of which may have november deadlines). Last I heard the funding situation was optimistic but still uncertain, with precedence definitely given to 6th year students with some outside money. Other than the UCLA film/TV archive research stipend, which I'll probably apply for despite the difficulty of making the case that I need to do archival research, I have no idea how to go about this. I was going to start with these links: http://del.icio.us/tag/fellowships. Help?
Plus [LJ] and I are organizing a Flow special issue. See how this month is crazy?? I will try to a more vigilant dissertator in future. Schedule-wise, I'm planning to be in LA November 9-December 14, then back on the east coast for the holiday season.
many thanks,
julie
