Almost . . . there . . . Stay on Target! Stay on Target!

I have the 5000 words for my supervisor. I've been planning to e-mail the work tomorrow, and I might make it. I've spent the last hour or so reading over the pages, and I need to make changes, and they will take at least two hours to do, if not more. It's about 19 pages, and I've learned a lot from writing them. The 19 pages are not unified, and they skip some parts. But there are a couple of pages in the middle that might be important. Either way, I think it will help me to have these things on paper, and I know it has helped me to write them. Theoretically, they could serve as part of Chapter One, but I think it's not really focused enough for a chapter. And I would have a lot more to add. It has some sections that are blank because I just skipped over them because I don't know enough yet. And there are plenty of parts about which, if I were grading the pages, I would say, "How does this fit in? What does this have to do with the main point?" or "What is the main point?" Much of the work is very contextual, and I haven't tied it all together very well. But, there it is. On the page.

Now, I think it's time to get more into primary texts so that I can get a better sense of how they actually fit into this context I've been spending so much time on.

But I do enjoy it. I can't wait for summer so that I can leave teaching behind for a little while--again. I love teaching my Brit lit class, but as for the others--not so much right now. I much prefer working on the research/writing of this dissertation.

I hope my supervisor is kind. It's very hard to send this out without a long list of caveats, disclaimers, and apologies.