I’ve made some real progress on my dissertation this week and hope to submit a draft of one portion of it by the end of this week! Hallelujah!

Yesterday I talked with one of my London friends, Marta. (We used Skype and were able to talk free for over an hour! Gotta love the internet phone for overseas calls.) She left London about a week and a half ago and returned to her home in Latvia. She is also feeling burdened and overwhelmed with her essay, so we had a pity party for ourselves. Then we snapped out of it and set a goal to write at least 2000 words by this weekend. I’ve failed at every other writing goal I’ve set for myself this summer, but since Marta and I are holding each other accountable this time, I WILL accomplish this one!

Let me just say that I LOVE that reference citations such as (Mendick, 2006, p. 25) count as FOUR WORDS! YES! I think I click the ‘word count’ button just about every minute to see how much I have written. This might be considered OCD behavior.