Another month gone???! really dont know where time is going, can only asume its because im enjoying it so much. for the first time, im keen to get somewhere in the morning, and actually reluctant to leave at night (although i kinda want to because my office (fake, plastic walls) is unbearably hot and airless, it gives me a headache).
I have completely redrafted my research question - changed pretty much everything (my supervisor is keen for me to not waft it around - its so good she's worried someone might nick my idea - wow - intellectual piracy, how cool!). I am now planning on doing a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis with my data, and am currently writing a piece on what narrative/biographical/life story research is, as i want to incorporate it, but need to 'tease out' exactly what i mean. Its kinda fun, although a strange feeling, writing an essay which no-one will ever mark.
I did some teaching this week on a Masters course, just introductory qualitative methods, which i enjoyed - the group were very sweet and willing, and i surprised myself and how much i actually knew about it. I have recently turned my back on positivism (its rubbish), but not before i had planned an incredibly quantitative survey-based project for my Masters (which im finsihing alongside beginning my PhD). its getting a real bind, especially as i (stupidly) assumed that surveys would be time-saving: its impossible to get anyone to fill the damn thing in, unless i physically thrust it into their hands (which i have been doing).
Anyhoo, that should be done by Christmas.
Still loving it - i give PhD life 10 out of 10!