On Friday I mentioned I was going to meet with my committee chair and find out some thing, and then I neglected to tell you what I found out.
The first three chapters of my memoir have been approved to be passed on to my other two thesis members. I must compose a letter to the two members (and I will probably have my chair look it over) telling the committee members what I’d like them to do. And to also outline a plan for when they will expect more.
I also received on Friday the edits on my very “messy middle” of my memoir. I have written this book in a very weird way. I have some chapters that are pretty polished (the beginning and the end), but the middle was a lot of rough draft, writing prompt, this should go somewhere kind of stuff. And so it is the messy middle.
I have until this upcoming Friday to rewrite that messy middle into something not so messy. And I also want to write the final chapter of my memoir. The good thing is that I know what I want to write/accomplish, so the actual writing should go fairly easy. And once he gets them, he may decide they need little editing, and we can pass those along to the other two members too.
Up until this point we were exposing threads, etc., but we have those so it should go easier from here. So things are looking like they may be on schedule, but as always the word IF looms large.
We have been having a conversation in my problems in teaching English class that the word “Is” is the most dangerous word in the English language. Or is a close second, and it seems to me there is another one that I am spacing out on. However, I would argue that for a grad student the words “If” and “thesis” strike fear in the heart.
