Snowed In

We've gotten a spectacular level of snow here as of late. In the spirit of Snow Days (And in the spirit of being spectacularly undermotivated), I've made as little progress as possible on my Thesis since last post, which I just KNOW is going to come and bite me in the ass soon if I don't get something done .

There's a thing called a "Pager" that I'm supposed to have for it. I think I'll write that up tomorrow and see if there are any major holes in my thesis plans that need to be hammered out.

So far, the only thing that I could see as being an obstacle is the possibility that my idea is too ill-defined, or worse yet, that it has already been done in a more well-defined way. As I've discovered with a little extra digging, there are already some papers on the culture of online gamers, both in a positive and negative light, so I might have to consider how to make my paper a bit more unique, or else just do a reflective on the subject as a whole.

I really do want this thesis to be about online gaming culture though, so anything else would truly suck since I've set my heart so firmly on this premise.

Of course I haven't yet set myself upon the part that I really am going to dread, which is the mass reading of all the texts on the subject and the subsequent compilation of all the information that I'll need. Mind you, I don't have any problems with reading texts, especially if it's teaching me something new or giving me something interesting to consider, but this is all essentially text on things I have already read or know about, and forcing myself to read them again is going to be arduous at best.

Really though, there isn't any getting around that, as any paper or project will require me to read all of this (again, in many cases) and cite this information over and over, sometimes just to prove that I have gotten my information from somewhere. Just because I know that I've done my homework doesn't mean that they have any proof that I have, so it's necessary, tedious as it might be.

Still considering what to post on this blog. Looking at a few other blogs of people I know, it seems like the really interesting thing would be to share my unique perspective on the world.

Now I just need to think about what is interesting and unique about my thoughts that I could share. Hmm...