I was playing on Facebook today, wasting yet more time, when the summer program that is the topic of the diss. came to the rescue...again. My mind has been in hibernation for the past six days, which rendered productivity on the diss. useless. As I was poking around the Facebook, I found a note written by a former student and current counselor at the program. The note itself discusses epistemic necessity with what I thought was an interesting approach to the topic. However, I disagreed with the first premise of the argument. So, taking a deconstructivist perspective, I wrote a post to the colleague to argue the issue.
This incident may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The posting forced me to think about an issue in a systematic, logical manner using major theorists as a base for my original argument. Hey, sounds suspiciously like what I'm supposed to be doing for a dissertation. I feel like my brain has been jolted awake all of a sudden. I am now thinking more clearly and feel ready to tackle that reading I have to do in order to write Chapter 3. All it took was a little (virtual) intellectual argument to force me to use the little grey cells.
So, once again, the summer program and its staff manages to support me even when it is not in session. Is there anything this place can't do?
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