Long Day, Longer Night

Realization: I'm bored. It takes a lot to bore me and the reality is I am B-O-R-E-D with this chapter. I typically avoid anything that looks or sounds like a literature review at all cost. And rather than being a colorful survey of African American women's political rhetoric, this Chapter Two has turned into one loooong, boring literature review. I think this chapter is an important element not just for the dissertation, but for the eventual book, but definitely not in its current (or near future state).

Tonight's work involved a lot of staring at the computer, reading articles on JSTOR, and very little writing. I just started forcing myself to type and went back to the old seminar routine of "write more about so-and-so" here when I couldn't write anymore. Total productivity: a miserable 500 words.

Still, I will press on through the quagmire of this chapter. Even if it means sacrificing the majority of my weekend plans. It won't be fun, but I'll do it.