I realized while listening to Julie that I too can write a great disseration about a topic that is engaging and new. But I just have to get myself to work on it. That means interviewing, which I am somehow reluctant to do. I feel like I should have some sort of plan that I then follow, but this paper is not that kind of writing experience. This is a much more doing and reflecting and writing at the same time. So I am going to work on a reflective piece and get an email written to the moms and kids. Set a date for starting interviewing. Have questions for Peter to look at. Talk to him about what to do with the third chapter. And how I want to organize the paper. I really want it to read like a story or stories of the people and what they have discovered of themselves, both through their school experiences and through the questions and research that I have engaged them in.
I need to find the note book because I know I have a bunch of things written about myself and raising Thorkell.
My biggest question is what is the paper trying to say. Will I find out that race doesn't impact the kids schooling, or only that it doesn't affect the kids schooling except in the fashion that it affects other non white and more specifically black children.
