Retooling

The dissertation has hit a bit of a snag and I've been whirling around in circles for the past couple of weeks trying to figure out exactly what I ought to do about it. See, I had (or thought I had) a contact in the place where I wanted to perform my study. But I knew she moving and was trying to get something (like a new contact) pinned down before she moved...and I missed the window. So now, I have no contact. Which makes it just a tad more impossible to get permission to work with that population. Insurmountable? No, probably not. But factors of 10 harder.

So...I've been weighing options. I think I've decided to change my population (provided my advisor is ok with it -- I sent him an email last night) and move from high school to college. It'll mean the study isn't quite as exciting for me, but...at the same time, it's still significant and it still hasn't been done, so it still definitely meets the PhD criteria. And I'm just trying to remind myself that I just need to boil a teaspoon of the ocean and if it happens to be a different teaspoon than I originally planned on, well, as long as no one's boiled it before...I just shouldn't care.

We'll see what my advisor says. Keep your fingers crossed that he's ok with it though, would you? The other major benefit to switching (second to easier access) is that I could probably finish more quickly. Which means paying for fewer semesters. Which, since my current job only pays in love, is actually a consideration these days.

That said? Getting paid in love? Best. Thing. Ever.