I realized today that I have been going about my dissertation prospetus all wrong. Instead of focusing on the dissertation as object, and giving someone a discussion of my problem and what I want to fix, I found myself trying to justify, using theory, why I thought the way I thought, and what I'd learned in graduate school.

Forest. Trees. Deep trees.

It's been plaguing me for years now. A fuckin' horror. But today, I managed to step outside the trees and get some perspective.

I've been writing the wrong shit.

Thank God. I thought I was stupid.

*sigh*