Progress or otherwise

In a week or two's time, the first bit of work for my Masters is due. The refined proposal.

The good news is that I have done some work towards this. The bad news is that the process has been more difficult than even I at my most negative had imagined; partly because of an astonishing ability to procrasinate and all forms of displacement and because actually trying to put into words what I am trying to do has turned out to be quite a challenge.

However, there are two main concerns, assuming I get past this first stage. One I am still very very very anxious about how to fit all this work together and combine it with my life and health. There are also so many ideas that I have that I want to do related to the study, but that remain wonderful voyages in my bonce, but so far no where else. And two I still do not have a group of people to do my work with. So if you are black, or mixed identity, race, heritage etc however, you define yourself, and about 22 years old with with white mum and brought up in a lone parent home and want to take part in some research please get in touch.

However, I am enjoying most of my reading and finding it amazing that there is so much work already out there in this field. I went for instance the other day to a book launch in conjunction with the Runnymede Trust and South Bank University on the topic of White Lone Parents with mixed kids and made some useful contacts and meet others doing research. So that was very positive. On the other hand my little computer seems to have swallowed much of the little work I have done, so I will have to repeat a lot of the work of summarising my readings, which is a pain if you are like me and difficult to motivate.