I honestly don’t know if you will be ~thrilled~ to read all about my thesis progress, but it helps me to write about it, so.  The screenshot above is the (incomplete) reading and viewing schedule I have mapped out for myself.  I realized today that, if I were taking a full course load, I’d be reading 3 novels and at least 6 pieces of secondary source material per week.  This thought immediately triggered an oh shit I need to get ON THIS moment.  

As it stands right now, the plan is to spend 4 weeks per chapter — this is actually longer than we are technically given to finish (nearly everyone takes an extension) and it also may change when I meet with my adviser.  When I’m in the thick of writing, I will likely pour over a good number of additional secondary sources (which, NOTE TO SELF, I need to set up a file for commentary on these things so I don’t forget what I think about them), as an entire part of the game is footnoting any and every article that references whatever work is the focus with some sort of ~commentary~ (yes this is entirely just to prove that the writer has read EVERYTHING OUT THERE, oh man, academics, we are such assholes).

So, that’s where we are.  I’m in between having a panic attack over this amount of work and feeling sliiiiightly better because at least I have a reading plan of attack.