September was a comparatively slow month for thesis work. A little bit of that is probably loss of desperation as the project has broadly come together and it has become clear that it’s possible to finish. More important, the social doldrums of August ended so now there are a lot more calls on my time: events at the political science department, friends visiting town, activist happenings, and so on.
Nonetheless, I need to keep focused on finishing the dissertation. It has been a bit annoying in ongoing conversations to have relevant material in the text, but be unable to share it. I’m not planning on taking the academic publishing route, so at least I will be able to release it as soon as the defence is done and the text has been accepted by the university.