I have been working slowly but steadily on the thesis for hours and hours now, and I am experiencing no fear. The material that I am turning out is subpar at best, but it can be improved. I've got months to do it, and a wonderful and brilliant advisor who can tell me exactly where I am being foolish (which at this point is nearly everywhere).
The pace of this work is really incredibly slow, despite the fact that literally my only distraction is writing on this blog. I am not a fast writer, and a huge amount of my time is going to be taken up with writing in the coming months. Fortunately, the time I spend writing is inversely proportional to the time I spend fretting.
I also have hit upon the realisation that I have a huge amount of reading to do. This is wonderful. I am good at reading, or at least pretty okay at it. Now that the framework of my thesis is sketched out, every new article I read has the potential to yield a new insight which I can make immediate concrete use of. Basically, this sounds awesome to me. I'm not sure whether it will be awesome, but I bet all you readers will find out eventually.
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