And so, last night, I spend part of the night researching for my thesis, scribbling ideas, reading, and making notes to myself and I've basically got nothin'. I am having a particularly hard time with the "situating my work within the current academic discussion."
Half of my notes are about how I don't know if I can do this. Obviously this attitude is not conducive to actual work. I should have no excuse on this; I don't really have any good excuse on this beyond my typical self-loathing and other annoying personality traits. I know I work and think slowly, but I only have a few hours a few days a week to do this…failure seems like an obvious end result. That is not a helpful attitude.
The other half of my notes are bits half-remembered from various classes. So, I've got some things, like the progression of technical writing from [half-remembered term] to user-centered communication to my current thesis on the future of the field, user-generated communication. Through this, we see our [as tech communicators] power move from the actual technology (through its agency as an autonomous thing) to the tech writer (by a set of knowledge given by a "teacher" of sorts) to the end-user (by the sharing of knowledge among peers).
So there is power. And obviously web junk (not the now-cancelled show), and probably a little genre thing going on. All the parts are there, really, but I need to put it together. And none of which is really 100% clear to me in my head as far as where the ideas came from.
I would hate to have to go through my notes to find this stuff, but I fear that's what I have to do. And by "I would hate to have to" I mean "I have to find and".
And, either unfortunately or not, I've run out of old stuff for this "I'm goin' to post daily on my blog for a month" dumb idea I got from somewhere or another, so I get to post all of those stupid things here. Basically, the only bonus there is that I have some proof that I tried, right? ؟Gah!
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