More dissertation Breakthrough

Okay, for anyone keeping up..... I have reached a good spot after all my complaining about my dissertation the other day. My friend who lurks this blog called & we made plans to do a "group work" session really soon. But really, what helped even more than that was that I started talking about my frustration. Isn't that always the way it goes? You get depressed, keep it to yourself, and it just gets worse. So I talked to Andrew about it, he got me to outline more what I was doing with the Buffy chapter (and the whole dissertation, really) and, since the other day, I've come to a "breakthrough" in thinking (at least) about that chapter. I think I know now where I need to go with it. Monday I'm going to sit down and try to really crank out some ideas-- Andrew will be gone all day and I won't touch anything other than dissertation writing, darn it!

But this is good-- I woke up this morning with it kind of worked out-- (I have to admit it felt better during the night when I thought it over-- sort of like a dream that fades a bit when you don't write it down right away.) But I don't think I lost more than just a minor bit of "flow" that I can rework in there eventually.

In other news

So yesterday we had a nice fourth of July thing. People came to our house for a while, ate, and then we caravanned over to Randolph AFB for a big fireworks show. We had sort of "factioned" from another friend's party, who was just planning on setting off their own store-bought stuff. I felt bad about that because it did cause a smaller group to go to their place-- but there wasn't any reason why they HAD to put off their own stuff last night-- they could have done their party tonight and we wouldn't have had to choose between the two events. But it was fun. Debbie of bellydance instruction came, and other "new friends" like Jamie & her husband Leonard, and Vicki brought a nice date (Carl). Then it was just the regular gang (Aaron, Nissa, Steve, Keval, Jeffrey). Some of the folks didn't go to fireworks with us. I did get stuck in icky traffic on the way back, and everyone else managed to avoid it and get home 20 minutes sooner (considering we live only 15 minutes from base that tells you a lot of the traffic we were stuck in).

Anyway, that's the news... the weather is a little rainy. :)

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