What can I say, it’s been a busy week.
As I write razor close to the deadline after having to stay late at work, my only real regret is that I wasn’t able to research more this past week. The last big bit of reading I did was for the mini bibliography last Wednesday, and since then various external factors have prevented me from doing much more. I did begin to edit and expand my bibliography based on the feedback I received last week, so that’s good.
I need to start seriously thinking about my thesis, as well as begin writing the very first draft of my paper at large. Still nothing particularly expansive or polished, but enough that I have a solid foundation of thoughts to elaborate on and festoon with footnotes. Other than that, I plan to find more sources both primary and secondary and continue to plow through reading them all. Sources aren’t any good if I only fish around for choice quotes, that’s academic malpractice. I’m hoping that sometime in the next day or two will present itself as the perfect opportunity to keep digesting the information. Barring that, I may have to pull some late nights, but that’s why the Lord saw fit to bless this earth with sweet, sweet, caffeine, right?