Week/Class 3 - Kendra

I apologize for this being late; I'll explain below.

I've been in quite the life funk lately, what with this massive onslaught of exhaustion (even when I try to get enough hours of sleep; that makes it worse), and feeling frustrated to hell and back with my job. This week's just not a good one.

But one thing that I take solace in, something that I mentioned to Elmaz in our 1:1 meeting, is pro wrestling, and a lot of my fiction work (not including this thesis) is based around it in some way. That work is easy for me to write, but this project is something that is a complete departure, and I don't know how to approach it. I've been struggling so unnecessarily hard with the assignments Margaret gave us with our readings, mainly because I felt no inspiration from the stories we read and therefore I didn't feel the need to force myself to write something.

Then I thought about it: I don't always have to relate those reading assignments back to my thesis. And after meeting with Elmaz, I should incorporate my love for pro wrestling into my work in some way, no matter what, because it motivates me to write so much. So that's what I'll be doing, and that's part of my secret assignment. Hopefully that'll inspire me enough to keep up and feel inspired to work, and additionally I hope it'll bring me out of that life funk.

On a lighter note, again I must gush about my fiction group because we are just some amazing folks. Katy already spoke about us, and I'm so happy to know she felt extremely productive during our meeting, because I did as well. I also felt heard and supported, and I needed to feel both with this project and class.

I was actually unsure/confused when I first heard about Kate and Katy's projects (it was too early that day; my attention was off), so I'm pleased and totally intrigued by their stories now that I know the details of the plots and whatnot. It also makes me happy that after this meeting, they (and myself) walked away really excited about writing and presenting our work to each other.

Whenever I feel like garbage about doing thesis work, I remember the positives such as what I just described, and I instantly feel better :)

P.S. I'm looking forward to these inspiration presentations!