The Plan
Insipred by the incompletes my inaccessible advisor, Mr. Heyman, gave me for last semester, I whipped out an extension cord, my lap desk, my starting-to-die laptop, the edited version of my thesis and the articles I'd been half-reading since August. And I got to work, making the suggested changes through page 9 of the behemoth that is my Life's Work.

For now, I'm taking it one step at a time: shooting for doing about an hour's worth of work each day, probably not every day, but at least getting in the habit of at least looking at it and thinking about it while I'm parked in bed at night. I won't sign up for any new credits, I'll work on completing the Incomplete ones I have now.

Small goal: get it to where grad studies approves it and I can do my study. I won't think about how motivated I may or may not be to actually do the study after that. However, once it's to that point, I'll only need to do the study (online survey) and collate my results, then write two chapters.

Just gonna take it a chapter at a time. That's the best I can do. And if somehow I pull this off, I will proudly march, Murray in tow, just to say 'hey kid, your mom finished something.'