More of the same

Until this article gets submitted, my postings may be more regular than usual, but they'll also be more anxious and self-centered (if that is possible). Since I don't have anyone physically breathing down my neck and making sure I stay at my desk with the wireless off, these semi-public, anonymous work pledges are all I've got to keep myself in line.

So, yesterday went somewhat better than Tuesday, in that I made headway on the whole thesis thing, but I was still relatively sluggish and unproductive. I also perhaps opened up a new can of worms by re-reading an article that touches on my subject and, I realized this time around, in many ways already says what I'm trying to say, though with very different conclusions. I think I cannot ignore this scholar, but I'm finding it difficult to sum up his point and contrast it from mine in a succinct way. The scholar's writing is extremely dense and vague in ways that make me suspect that he hasn't completely worked out his point, but also worry that perhaps I'm just not smart enough to understand it. (I hate when that happens, which in this field is all too often.)

Anyway, today I will revise the second half of my article, having pretty much plodded successfully through the first half, and I will start working on the endnotes, which at this point are extremely fragmentary.

I also here pledge that I will take some time to exercise today, the time I might otherwise have spent reading blogs, which really isn't the best kind of break one can take from sitting at a computer and writing, now is it?