Morning theory.

Just after 10 this morning, in room 339 of the Geoffrey Manton building, was a meeting about our research plans for the dissertation. It was Jane, Mel, Holly, Jenny, Jack, Mark and me. I made notes from Jane's advice. It was nice to hear that the writing does not have to made through someone else's style. The deadline is around the 13th of October, 2006.

My main considerations are:

A proposal
(plan, explain idea, which I shall send to Jane so she knows what I am doing)

A title
(which can be changed, even after I leave University and have treatment, time/era, media of study, artist, theme)

A summary of intentions
(aim+justification, relationship to work, histo background, wider cultural significance, find existing research)

Key resources
(library/catalogues, new/unexplored resources, archives/experts)

Timetable:
June, July, August, September, October: four and a half months, just over 100 days. My essay (5000-10000 words) will be finished by then. It will be about something that will emerge soon enough, and it will be happy with itself as a collection of pages in a book of pocket wallets. It will be an edition of one and will not be aimed at the mass market. It will be aimed at the people I love and miss and will want to make them laugh and tell them about things that I have read and observed. It will be an open letter printed on air.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2006&country=9&typ=2&display=1&lang=en&months=5&month=6&wno=1

So over the next days I shall be asking myself these questions all day:
What am I researching?
How will I do it?

And to both I will be answering.