Sobriquet 38.22

The following post was originally published on 1/22/08.

It's a bit after one and I want to get to bed relatively early tonight, so I will not write too, too much this evening. What I can and will say, however, is that today was a remarkably productive day for me, having written over three pages of the dissertation.

I did struggle a bit with ennui again and ended up driving around the Southern Tier, looking for something, anything interesting to do. This is the weirdest thing I've experienced since beginning the dissertation: not knowing what to do when not working on the blasted thing. 'Tis peculiar.

One other thing I have been thinking about on and off since I started this blog project is just how tremendously boring it must be to read. I've toyed with the idea of adding little features or occasional reviews to make it a teensy bit more entertaining, but I realized that I want this to be as accurate a record of my experience writing a dissertation as possible--and it is, in many ways, a boring, tedious, monotonous undertaking. I think that if this blog is to have any value for people other than myself, it should show, to the best of my ability, the real-time process of putting a dissertation together, even if that means repeating the same things day-in and day-out. Somehow, I think that the accumulation of such entries may be the most informative aspect of the whole ordeal.

For tomorrow: Try to write a bit more.