i'm working pretty hard lately, but that i'm in this stage where there are lots of unfinished bits and pieces that i'm wading in. it's actually a really interesting part of any creative process, when you've got a bunch of pots of soup, each at the beginning stages of being made, and you are trying to pay equal attention to all the pots, but with the awareness that they won't all get done at the same time, nor all have been given the same amount of attention.
so, regarding data: as of tonight, i've completely "dirty transcribed" all of my interviews and have three left to "clean" before sending them to participants. i also completed three group discussion/descriptive review sessions over the last month -- they went really well and generated lots of interesting discussion, but i have yet to transcribe those recordings. that will be a fun project for april.
at the same time, i've also begun outlining 8 or so of the big emerging themes into little chunks of notes. they're not yet fleshed out enough to talk about here, but it's nice to see the ideas in relationship to each other, and to see various data and things i'm reading kind of talk to each other.
that's all i've got for now... unlike previous years, i seem to be blogging about once a month, but as i've said in earlier posts, that seems to be the nature of being a part-time student working on a dissertation. lots and lots of wading in deep waters and then little moments when you can surface and report. kind of a comfortable place to be at this point, for me at least.
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